Myth Fest: Living Goddesses

“Looking to a Goddess who presides over moments of crossing can help us navigate our own liminal moments of uncertainty and change.” - Freia Serafina Titland

The Sacred Feminine has always spoken, but we, humans, has not always been listening. There are remnants of this wisdom hidden in per-literary sculptures, shrines, and temples, as well as some of our earliest written records, stories, rituals, and art. Goddesses take many forms including creatrixes, such as Gaia, Nammu, Shakti, and Spider Woman, and embody different names from Brigid, Artemis, Yemayá, Freyja, Ereshkigal, and Parvati to name a few.

“If we study The Great Goddess as she was seen and interpreted by the ancients, we are capable of creating a new archetype suitable for our time.” - Helen Benigni, PhD

Despite patriarchy’s dominance in many Western cultures over the last few millennia, especially through colonization and the Church’s significant influence elevating the Sacred Masculine in Europe, the Sacred Feminine did not disappear. Nor did She abandon us. She can be found in sacred groves, temples, and women’s circles all over the world. All through history, humanity has kept Her memory alive, and over the last century, scholars, artists, activists, storytellers, and ritualists have been bringing Her stories, images, and rites back to collective consciousness.

“Demeter stood at the heart of the ancient world for nearly two thousand years—her sacred rites transforming initiates through direct encounters with the divine. That fierce, nurturing, Nature-rooted mother archetype hasn't disappeared; it's been suppressed. And it's precisely what is missing from global leadership today.” - Jennifer Degnan Smith, PhD

Myth Fest: Living Goddesses celebrates the Sacred Feminine in community. With scholars, storytellers, and practitioners engaging goddess mythology from cultures around the world and across time, we’ll immerse ourselves in these ancient stories to nurture the Sacred Feminine within ourselves and glean wisdom for our chaotic times. It is time to listen and bring these stories forward.

Join us this Saturday, June 13th, 11:30am-4:30pm ET (8:30am to 1:30pm PT) on Zoom.

Panel #1: A Convocation of Goddesses

• The Valkyrie at the Threshold.

• Skywoman Falling, All Relatives Rising: A Story of Hope and Renewal

• Uksáhkká: The Liminal as Sacred GroundSasha Fox:

• The Goddess of 52 Faces

Panel #2: It's all Greek Goddesses to Me

• Time-Keeper, Earth-Keeper, Star-Keeper: The Great Goddess of the Summer Sky

• The Missing Mother: Demeter and the Crisis of Global Leadership

• Athena: Mistress of Horses 

Panel #3: Goddesses from the Niger River to the Bay of Bengal

• Òṣun: Love, Joy, and Sacred Feminine Power

• Sarasvati, a Goddess with the Write Stuff

• Echoes of the Great Goddess: Inanna’s Early Historic Origins.

• Reimagining Inanna’s Descent: Toward a Pelvic-centered Feminine Consciousness.

• Christianity’s Forgotten Goddess: The Holy Spirit as Sophia

Visit us at www.ismythology.com to register for the event.