What I am attracted to may in fact be written inside of me. It makes me wonder if these symbols are embedded in our DNA. November 9, 2017: CPS community live online celebration and interview with Riane about The Chalice & the Blade: the past 30 years and future vision. I was looking for transformation just as the Neolithic and Cretan people were. I was calling on the power of the butterfly to release me from a period of my life when I was feeling very stuck. I was wearing a butterfly ring around my finger and a necklace around my neck. Last year I started buying butterfly jewelry. All the ideals of the old religion, female, snakes, and knowledge are considered bad/works of the devil and if people continue to worship them the will be expelled from the garden like Adam and Eve. The rejection of the Goddess and the serpent for the new male God centered religion Judaism and calling this the act the original sin can be unpacked as the new religion's defamation the old religion of the Goddess, as well as, the power shift from partnership model (gylany) to dominator model (androcracy). The writers of the Old Testament decision to equate the serpent with the feminine character Eve and ancient knowledge is actually an accurate portrayal of Goddess culture. Ancient Priestesses obtained their knowledge (note it is the Tree of Knowledge in the bible) in serpent rituals. TARA JANZEN, New York Times bestsellling author of CRAZY HOT and CRAZY COOL of the STEELE STREET SERIES of books, also writes as GLENNA MCREYNOLDS, the author of thirteen Loveswept romances, an epic medieval fantasy trilogy, THE CHALICE AND THE BLADE, DREAM STONE, and PRINCE OF TIME, and a contemporary romantic adventure set in the Amazon, RIVER OF EDEN, a book considered a classic in the genre. In the book there is a reinterpretation of Genesis, in which it is mentioned that it is very natural for Eve to listen to the serpent because the serpent is the Goddess symbol. In the Chalice in the Blade, serpents are connected with Goddess worship and the sacred feminine. I haven't ever felt the connection with serpents that I have with butterflies.
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