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Many cultures such as India believe that deities have a consciousness and the essence of the deity can be connected through statues and images. Possession of one of our Goddess will create a portal for you to receive the information from the icon in way that literal information cannot do. There are many ways that the Goddess is becoming more apparent to us. There are many things, which suggest that her resurrection in mass human consciousness is both imminent and necessary. It is important that we visualise the Goddess clearly. Icons can become keys that if studied can lead us into realisations and awareness that are difficult to describe in words. As you think so shall you be. In contemporary western society we are not exposed to the Goddess as an integral part of life. So most people tend not to think of her. In the past images of women pregnant, naked or even exposing genitalia would have been commonplace.  Through Creativity, dance , visualisation, ritual and prayer, we can touch our Goddess selves. The Goddess is being reformed through many frameworks including, paganism, feminism, shamanism and spiritual dance.

Although the Goddess is becoming more apparent to many women and men, we are also experiencing in the world a rise of fundamentalist spirituality. If one has a framework of monotheistic spirituality, it will be difficult to understand the true nature of the Goddess. The Goddess has many hundreds of faces or aspects. She is often defined as the triple Goddess, the Virgin, the Maiden and the Crone. However there is also just one all encompassing Creatrix. The imbalance of masculine values in humanity is manifesting itself in the destruction of the environment. The Goddess is making her presence known to try to correct the imbalance. Unlike religions based on one supreme male Godhead, who must be obeyed out of fear of punishment, the Goddess seems to encourage us to look at our own divinity diversity, and take responsibility for our own actions. The belief that spirituality only exists after death prevents people from experiencing spirit and life NOW!

The body, particularly a woman's body was thought by Neolithic people to be divine. Statues of males with erect phallus were worshiped with pregnant voluptuous female figures that seemed to be dancing. Women were highly regarded at this time. It was not till the penny dropped concerning the biological truth about childbirth and the rise of agriculture and technology that women became perceived as the inferior sex. Goddesses worship was more prevalent in the Middle East than anywhere else.

Any icon or focus of divine energy can be said to reflect or represent an aspect of the human psyche. Jung talks about the collective unconscious. This is a concept that suggests that there are ideas or archetypes that exist outside the individual mind. Any individual can tap these into. If we look at various cultures we see ideas, which repeat themselves.

There are hundreds of Goddesses. It is interesting how Goddesses from a variety of cultures often resemble each other, both in iconography and the magical and divine qualities that they possess. In mythology we can clearly see how the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy is expressed in mythological themes.

In established religions, Pain and suffering are encouraged as a way to spiritual enlightenment. The pleasure of the body is anti-spiritual. The Goddess on the other hand urges us to live and enjoy our selves. The Goddess says 'all acts of pleasure and enjoyment are my rituals’. It is good to be urged to do things that make us happy.

There are a variety of Goddesses. We all connect or resonate more clearly with certain aspects of the Goddess. Just as there is a variety of ways of being or sub- selves, there are thousands of faces of the goddess. The French philosopher Janet said that the human personality was likes a ladder. Which rung we are on is representative of an aspect of our selves. However we always have a feeling of the consistency of the self. The Goddess is like this; she is one and many at the same time.

To browse our range of Goddesses please see our Goddess Statues Section.