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Trista’s 2022 Year in Books
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Trista Hendren
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NEW BOOK!! - On the Wings of Isis: Reclaiming the Sovereignty of Auset
Getting ready to send this one to the printer!
For centuries, women have lived, fought and died for their equality, independence and sovereignty. Originally known as Auset, the Egyptian Goddess Isis reveals such a path.
On The Wings of Isis demonstrates how to soar toward autonomy. Unfurl your wings and join an array of strong women who have embodied the Goddess of Ten Thousand Names to celebrate t Read more of this blog post »
For centuries, women have lived, fought and died for their equality, independence and sovereignty. Originally known as Auset, the Egyptian Goddess Isis reveals such a path.
On The Wings of Isis demonstrates how to soar toward autonomy. Unfurl your wings and join an array of strong women who have embodied the Goddess of Ten Thousand Names to celebrate t Read more of this blog post »
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The Girl God (The Girl God #1)
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Mother Earth (The Girl God #2)
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Tell Me Why (The Girl God #3)
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Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak
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Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess
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How to Live Well Despite Capitalist Patriarchy
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Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of The Morrigan
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“There was a considerable time lag between the subordination of women in patriarchal society and the declassing of the goddesses. As we trace below changes in the position of male and female god figures in the pantheon of the gods in a period of over a thousand years, we should keep in mind that the power of the goddesses and their priestesses in daily life and in popular religion continued in force, even as the supreme goddesses were dethroned. It is remarkable that in societies which had subordinated women economically, educationally, and legally, the spiritual and metaphysical power of goddesses remained active and strong.”
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“Constricted, the joy of the feminine has been denigrated as mere frivolity; her joyful lust demeaned as whorishness, or sentimentalized and maternalized; her vitality bound into duty and obedience. This devaluation produced ungrounded daughters of the patriarchy, their feminine strength and passion split off, their dreams and ideals in the unobtainable heavens, maintained grandly with a spirit false to the instinctual patterns symbolized by the queen of heaven and earth. It also produced frustrated furies. For as Inanna lives unconsciously in women under the patriarchy’s repression, she is too often demonic.”
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“On the other hand, lived consciously, the goddess Inanna in her role as suffering, exiled feminine provides an image of the deity who can, perhaps, carry the suffering and redemption of modern women. Closer to many of us than the Church's Christ, she suggests an archetypal pattern which can give meaning to women's quest, one which may supplant the Christian myth for those unable to relate to a masculine God. Inanna's suffering, disrobing, humiliation, flagellation and death, the stations of her descent, her ¨crucifixion¨ on the underworld peg, and her resurrection, all prefigure Christ's passion and represent perhaps the first known archetypal image of the dying divinity whose sacrifice redeems the wasteland earth. Not for humankind's sins did Inanna sacrifice herself, but for earth's need for life and renewal. She is concerned more with life than with good and evil. Nonetheless, her descent and return provide a model for our own psychological-spiritual journeys.
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“Women HAVE a history that has been systematically suppressed. Our collective spirituality has largely been tainted to fit the needs of men and those in power. This has a profound effect on the self-esteem of girls and the women they become. This influence can be seen in their life choices, partners and financial security for the rest of their lives. It also has an effect on the way their future partners will view them - and ultimately treat them. Our girls deserve better. The time to introduce feminism and woman-centered spirituality to ALL children is now.”
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“The misrepresentation of God as strictly male has wounded women in every area of their lives.
Women are raped, abused, molested, trafficked and prostituted because the desires of men (AKA God) are prioritized over the emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual needs of women and girls. The misrepresentation of God as male ensures that women and girls will always be considered last.
The images of God as “Father” and "Savior" are the foundations that patriarchy and misogyny are built upon.”
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Women are raped, abused, molested, trafficked and prostituted because the desires of men (AKA God) are prioritized over the emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual needs of women and girls. The misrepresentation of God as male ensures that women and girls will always be considered last.
The images of God as “Father” and "Savior" are the foundations that patriarchy and misogyny are built upon.”
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“Can you imagine how much our religion would change if we heard it through the mouths of women, instead of only mostly men?”
― The Girl God
― The Girl God
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“The Gorgon Medusa presents herself to us here and now, requiring us to be fully present, to listen deeply—past the noise of accumulated judgments—to the Ancient Wisdom that is our true inheritance. As the Great Awakener, She reminds us of our mortality and encourages us to reclaim whatever has been silenced or diminished within us while we are privileged to be alive. We are admonished to have the courage to act and speak what is true, to trust ourselves to hold her gaze and know we will not be turned to stone.”
― Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom
― Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom
“To look at the Goddess is to remember ourselves, to imagine ourselves whole.”
― In Her Image: The Unhealed Daughter's Search for Her Mother
― In Her Image: The Unhealed Daughter's Search for Her Mother
“Gradually, it began to dawn on me that the image of God as Father, Son and Spirit was at the root of the problem. No matter what I did, I would never be ¨in his image.¨ While I had hoped to find in God a father who would love and accept my female self, it seemed that ¨he,¨ like my father and most of my professors, liked boys better. I decided that unless we could call God Mother as well as Father, Daughter as well as Son, women and girls would never be valued.”
― Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality
― Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality
“Any autonomous woman is a candidate for the 'fear-inspiring goddess.' Whether maiden or crone, the autonomous woman is feared as one who can emasculate men verbally as surely as Circe transformed unlucky men into lions and wolves with a tap of her wand. The rigid patriarch seems to fear that autonomous women will transform men into mice.”
― Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book
― Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book
“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
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