Women's HERstory Month: SHE Speaks...

Janet Rudolph - a friend who includes among her offerings one that I've enjoyed - guided labyrinth walks - will be part of an April 28-29 symposium celebrating matriarchal and matrilineal spiritual traditions. I'm already registered...JOIN ME!

Janet will be presenting her SheSpeaks! films along with time for QandA and discussion on April 28th from 3:00-4:30 Eastern time.

April 28-29 SYMPOSIUM: Wisdom of the Mothers: Celebrating Matriarchal and Matrilineal Spiritual Traditions

Janet will be presenting her SheSpeaks! films along with time for QandA and discussion on April 28th from 3:00-4:30 Eastern time.

[from Janet's invitation email - with my added emphases] Aloha to all, You are invited to an on-line symposium where I will be one of 24 presenters. I will be presenting my SheSpeaks! project subtitled, "women of the bible have their say." During my presentation there will be 5 short scenes (films) where you will be introduced to 4 biblical women to be followed by questions and discussion.

1) Eve inviting you into her garden

2) Naamah (Noah's wife) talking about building the arc

3) Miriam discussing what she and Zipporah (Moses' wife) did to prepare for the Exodus (2 films).

4) Sarah and Abraham describing their sojourn into Egypt

The title of the symposium is: Wisdom of the Mothers: Celebrating Matriarchal and Matrilineal Spiritual Traditions. The dates are April 28th to April 29th. On zoom!

Through March 30th there will be an automatic 10 % discount applied to registrations.

I am including the link for more information and attaching the poster announcing the symposium:

Register here

Please feel free to share this to anyone who may be interested.

Bright Blessings,

Janet

Here's a preview of Janet's "She Speaks" presentation

Miriam Speaks by Janet Maika’i Rudolph - Feminism and Religion

[From intro to the article with my added emphases] Intro: I have been working on a project inspired by Charlene Spretnak and her book Lost Goddesses of Early Greece. I am writing biblical stories through the eyes and words of the women. The scribes who wrote down the tales of the bible, wrote mostly from men’s point of view. And they had their own which was to destroy evidence of the Goddesses. I tell Noah’s story through Naamah, his wife. Abram and Sarai’s journey to Egypt through the eyes of Sarah. Exodus in Miriam’s voice. In my telling, Miriam went to Midian with Moses and, while there, experienced the Burning Bush and worked with Moses’ wife Zipporah to protect knowledge of the Goddesses.

[more from the article with my added emphases] Here is another sample of our work. When people pray to a being called the Almighty, they might be picturing a large muscle-bound man rising out of a roiling cloud and throwing thunderbolts. Little do they realize they are praying to a female deity. Almighty in Hebrew is Shaddai and shad means breasts. The goddess with breasts is the same female divinity who created the Milky Way in the heavens from the overflow of her own milky teats. The same Goddess who sends down the gentle dew that coats the earth in the early morn, who coaxes the shoots to grow and the buds to blossom. Our Goddesses were not thunderbolt types of deities. They tended more towards caring for Her Earth children. But don’t let that fool you. They could handle thunderbolts with the best of them, it just wasn’t their preferred source of power.

***"...new mother suckles her son..."...*tOM's add-ers : ))))**

Based on my last name, I give myself permission to expound with a musical reference to Janet's piece...

See, I woke up during the night thinking about Janet's post and these Moody Blues lyrics started playing in my mind:

"...new mother suckles her son..."

The myth of the milk of Hera (Ancient Greek: Ἥρας γάλα, romanized: Hḗras gala) is an ancient Greek myth and explanation of the origin of the Milky Way within the context of creation myths. The standard telling goes that the mythical hero Heracles, as an infant, breastfed from an unsuspecting Hera, the goddess of marriage and Zeus's wife, who threw him away, causing a little bit of her milk to splash and create the galaxy with all its stars. [continues at next link]