Earth Mother's Night (winter solstice)

[niyad]

(for those who are unfamiliar with one of the original trinitarian deities--maiden, mother, crone)

(more images)

https://www.google.com/search?q=earth+mother%27s+night+winter+solstice&biw=1020&bih=622&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2roa9u-7JAhWFlh4KHZtyAGgQ7AkIKg

[Mnemosyne]

1. Happy Solstice to you, niyad! Gorgeous artwork, love the feminine version of a trinity. Makes so

much more sense.

[niyad]

2. indeed it does. about the only thing the xians came up with on their own were the concepts

of original sin and hell.

[Mnemosyne]

8. Too many of them are sadistic masochists, if that makes any sense. nt

[niyad]

9. that is a most spot-on description of them.

[niyad]

3. . . .

[Hekate]

4. Just gorgeous. Blessings of Maiden, Mother, Crone...

Is that by Susan Seddon Boulet? I loved her work, and found her illustrations for Ursula LeGuin's Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight to be the perfect marriage of word and image.

[niyad]

6. I loved it as soon as I saw it, but not Boulet's work (which I love!!)

13 Moon Oracle Priestess Sarah Uma

[Yorktown]

5. Earth Mother? Wazzat? Another religion?

Can't you guys keep things simple and take nature at face value?

[niyad]

7. no

[GliderGuider]

13. No.

Human beings don't take anything "at face value." We can't. Everything (literally) is interpreted and analogized the moment the perception enters our minds. Meaning is never found, it is always created.

Why does it surprise you that other people would form different analogies and interpretations, or create different meanings out of different ideas than you do? Why is that a problem?

[niyad]

15. more than likely, because it is a female image.

[GliderGuider]

17. Some people get triggered by others' beliefs, no matter what they are.

Reminding them that their own materialism is based on an unprovable belief in the existence of an objective universe doesn't seem to cut much ice, for some reason.
Now that belief triggers me!

[Yorktown]

16. Why is that a problem?

1- because it's not healthy to have my fellow homininae great apes believe in strange, weird, unprovable things which often command them to do violence unto others.

2- because it's a waste of homininae great apes intelligence, which would be better used to cure cancer or prepare counter measures for the next asteroid to threaten our little planet.

I could probably think of other ills of religions, but that should cover the 20/80.

[niyad]

10. . . .

[FLPanhandle]

11. As an atheist...

This is no more or less crazy than any other religion out there. Enjoy it if you want to believe in it.

[GliderGuider]

12. Beautiful image! Thank you!

[niyad]

14. you are most welcome.

[bdwker]

18. I like that.

[niyad]

19. it is a beautiful image