Saturday, April 28, 2018



  We discovered (and fell in love with) Ms. Paley's work last year during a goddess scrounging-session.  Even when running video was costing us €s to the minute, it was a bandwidth-burning fave.  Pitch-perfect for our project, I give you Pointer Sisters (and their Mesopotamian Minstrels): Gotta Believe...

Friday, April 27, 2018

The 'Eleusis' arm of this contraption weighs in...

...  What is she reading now?  Mostly compendia of the thousand-thousand Ways called "Goddess" on this planet.   A few by name. . .
Hornhatted goddess
sporting paleolithic Daisy Dukes.
Source
Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth (Mabel Lang)
The Orientalizing Revolution (Walter Burkert)
Six Snake-limbed Goddesses [. . .] (Yulia Ustinov)
Pyrrhonism  (Adrian Kuzminski)
Myth of <the> Goddess: evolution of an image (Cashford & Baring)
The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece (M. Rigoglioso)
The Faces of Goddess (L. Motz)
Mantikê: Studies in ancient divination (Eds. Johnson & Struck) 

Greek Sanctuaries, new approaches (Mariantos & Hagg)
In Search of God-the-Mother (Lynn Roller) 


From the outset of this project, we wondered if Theá, Dea, Devi, Zeitæ, Prajna, Boginya could, in fact, refer to the same being, idea, Überlass.  And we don't just mean 'god's girlfriend.'  Having lived among the hieromaniacs of monotheism (gedsundheit!), we're wary of its contagion - a tendency to lump everything underOne.  Including  Goddess and Gawddess and Go(ogle)ddess (please note that we eschew the 'the' in Her evocation).

Early in our research of 33 Names, we were struck by this divinatory distinction: type "I" that falls vertiginously into Infinity; and type "W" that doubled-you everywhere She turned.  That is to say, there seems to be a species of Goddess who is Infinitizing phenomena with a Dianic fever; and another species that keeps exponentializing, mirroring, multiplying the space within which that occurs.   This might be an actual categorical distinction; or might be a cognitive twitch-up, a thoughtbot.  Either way, the List is shaking down to include both propensities, as one lends energy, the other gnosis.   While some of these Deánizens --like any almost-enlightened-- have thrown us enough shade to start a coffee plantation, She/s Who Must Be Named is amused enough for now to play along. 

So here we go. . .