The Divine Feminine as Maiden, Page 4 in a Series

Ancient Minoan people on the island of Crete had a spiritual vision of their world which included symbols of the Divine Feminine dating far back into prehistory.





Let’s imagine what a Minoan woman might say about the Maiden phase of the Divine Feminine. Our speaker looks like the women in a mural from Knossos seen in the photo above. Let’s call her Minah.

“Our young girls hold the potential for our society’s future. They come from the spirit world to grace our society with their potential, talent, and skills, which blossom with our teachings.

"Our girls are like earth’s spring season, the handiwork of the Goddess. She graciously gives us our maidens for the good of our society, just as She gives us seeds to germinate and flower.

"We have a celebration of our maidens at the full moon just before spring. Everyone comes to our pole festival. The girls do a circle dance around the pole and interweave ribbon streamers hanging from the pole.

"All come to dance, feast and watch the bull game. For this occasion our best girl athletes perform feats on a bull’s back. Our bulls are trained to work with our athletes.

The bull is a sign of the masculine principle. The cooperation of girl athlete and bull shows union of the creative powers of female and male. For we see that all life is created through the union of male and female every spring season.

" Our daughters carry the potential of the mysterious power of creation. We see the female as the active creative principle which we call Goddess. Our maidens are therefore She whom we adore. Our girls carry the lineage of our society, from mother to daughter.

"Our girls are well-educated. We expect them to contribute their gifts and learning to our culture. They learn the lore of the natural world, rhetoric, music, dance, writing, athletics.

"They learn to delight in the body, and from a very early age they eagerly await their coming sexuality. But we don't regard menarche as the first time a girl becomes important in her own right as a woman. We celebrate our daughters’ seed nature, long before their menarche, just as we thank and celebrate the Earth Mother for the seed power she gives us to reproduce life.

"When our girls come into menarche they experience how the power of nature to create life now belongs to them.”

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Imagine for yourself a life when all the seasons of earth and seasons of woman are celebrated – throughout the year by all members of your society. Wouldn’t you feel joyous about being female?



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Next week on August 7 and August 8: "The Divine Feminine as Mother," Pages 5 and 6 in a Series.