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A matriarchal religion is a religion that emphasizes a goddess or multiple goddesses as central figures of worship and spiritual authority. The term is most often used to refer to theories of prehistoric matriarchal religions that were proposed by scholars such as Johann Jakob Bachofen , Jane Ellen Harrison , and Marija Gimbutas , and later ...
Since the 1970s, Goddess Spirituality has emerged as a recognizable international cultural movement. [17] In 1978 Carol P. Christ's widely reprinted essay "Why Women Need the Goddess," [18] which argues in favor of the concept of there having been an ancient religion of a supreme goddess, was presented as the keynote address to an audience of over 500 at the "Great Goddess Re-emerging ...
Earth-centered religion or nature worship is a system of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena. [1] It covers any religion that worships the earth, nature, or fertility deity, such as the various forms of goddess worship or matriarchal religion. Some find a connection between earth-worship and the Gaia hypothesis. Earth ...
Goddess spirituality, which is also known as the Goddess movement, is a pagan religion in which a singular, monotheistic Goddess is given predominance. Goddess Spirituality revolves around the sacredness of the female form, and of aspects of women's lives that adherents say have been traditionally neglected in Western society, such as ...
Goddess movement – Modern revival of divine feminine or female-centered spirituality; Liberation theology – Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed; Marianismo – Aspect of the female gender role in the machismo of Hispanic American culture; Ordination of women – Women's ordination in religious groups
For example, Thor was associated with thunder, and his hammer, Mjolnir, was believed to control storms and lightning. Similarly, the goddess Nerthus was linked to fertility and the earth, with rituals involving plowing sacred fields to ensure a bountiful harvest. Manannán mac Lir, the Celtic sea god, sculpture by John Sutton at Gortmore
[2] Additional examples of the goddess Hecate viewed as a triple goddess associated with witchcraft include Lucan's tale of a group of witches, written in the 1st century BCE. In Lucan's work (LUC. B.C. 6:700-01), the witches speak of " Persephone , who is the third and lowest aspect of our goddess Hecate". [ 3 ]
In the principally Shakta theology of Śrī Vidyā the goddess is supreme, transcending the cosmos that is her manifestation. [ a ] She is worshiped in the form of a mystical diagram (Sanskrit: yantra ), a central focus and ritual object composed of nine intersecting triangles, called the Shri Yantra or Śrī Cakra .