Then when her physical body was complete he blew her bodily soul into it.
A perfect fit.
The-Spirit was joined to her bodily soul
And her bodily soul was now joined to her physical body.
She became a living soul, an individual.
She who was chaos was fashioned by The-Man into Mother Nature.
She is Nature in the broadest sense.
She is this very Universe.
And she was the one he would love forever.
Ebla, North Syria
Lord of heaven and earth: the earth was not, you created it, the light of day was not, you created it, the morning light you had not [yet] made exist.
There was no heaven, Great One formed it. There was no earth, Great One formed it. There was no sun, Great One formed it. There was no moon, Great One formed it.
-The Ebla Tablets
‘Now, the mother goddess in old mother-goddess mythologies was herself
already the Universe it’s her own body that is the universe. She is identical
with the universe. That’s the sense of that Goddess Nut figure that you [see]
in the Egyptian temple. She is the whole sphere of the life -- enclosing heavens.’
-The Power of Myth. Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Taoism
The nameless was the beginning of heaven and earth
The named was the mother of the manifold creatures
-Tao-Te-Ching 1v2
‘Now, the mother goddess in old mother-goddess mythologies was herself already the Universe it’s her own body that is the universe. She is identical with the universe. That’s the sense of that Goddess Nut figure that you [see] in the Egyptian temple. She is the whole sphere of the life -enclosing heavens.’135
Bon Po’s of Tibet.
From the Void a being came into existence. Her body became the whole universe. The crown of her head was the sky, her eyes the moon and sun, her teeth the planets, her voice thunder, her tongue lightening, her breath clouds, her tears rain, her nose breath the wind, her blood oceans her veins rivers, her flesh soil and her bones the mountains.136
Taoism
The nameless was the beginning of heaven and earth
The named was the mother of the manifold creatures137
Ancient Egypt
Neith the Great radiant One, the Great Mother of Ra emerged from the primordial waters of Nun at the beginning of time and called the universe into being.138
Queen Isis natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of the worlds, chief of the powers of divine, principle of them that dwell in heaven, manifested alone in one form of all the gods and goddesses.139
Gnostic
For it is he who looks at himself in his light which surrounds him, namely the spring of the water of life. And it is he who gives to all the aeons and in every way, (and) who gazes upon his image which he sees in the spring of the Spirit. It is he who puts his desire in his water-light which is in the spring of the pure light-water which surrounds him. “And his thought performed a deed and she came forth, namely she who had appeared before him in the shine of his light. This is the first power which was before all of them (and) which came forth from his mind, She is the forethought of the All - her light shines like his light - the perfect power which is the image of the invisible, virginal Spirit who is perfect. The first power, the glory of Barbelo, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation, she glorified the virginal Spirit and it was she who praised him, because thanks to him she had come forth. This is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything for it is she who is prior to them all.140
Wise men of old gave the soul a feminine name. Indeed she is female in her nature as well. She even has her womb. As long as she was alone with The Father, she was virgin and in form androgynous.141
Ancient Australia
Kunapipi is a mother-goddess whose body is the earth. 142
Bantu Fang
In the beginning there was nothing but Nzame (God). Nzame is really three: Nzame, Mebere, and Nkwa. It was the Nzame part of Nzame who created the universe and the earth and blew life into it.143
Yaruro of Venezuela
Everything sprang from Kuma the mother goddess and everything that we do was established by her. Everybody sprang from Kuma, but she was not made pregnant in the ordinary way, it was not necessary.144
Ancient China
Tien-li, the soul of the universe, emerged from the primordial chaos and combined with Chi to form matter. 145
Hinduism
MOTHER KUNDALINI.
The Holy Mother. The Great Queen. Thou shineth greater than a thousand suns. Thou hast four arms. Thou art the arrow of the five elements. Thy forehead shines like the Moon of the Eighth day. Thou art Omnipresent. Thou art attended by herds of Deities. Thou art surrounded by many million goddesses. Thy pleasure is by Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Keeper), Mahendra (Deities). From throat to waist Thou represents the desire of Creation. From thy waist downward Thou represents the Shakti. Thou resideth above the Six Chakras. Thou art Kundalini. Thou delighteth in Benevolence Thou art above the Past, the Present and the Future. Thy face is like the Spring Moon. Thou art Peaceful. Thou art Stainless. Thou art Pure. Thou art Spotless. Thou art Desirableness. Thou art Ever Pure. Thou art Blameless. Thou art without Sin. Thou possesseth all Shaktis (powers). Thou art the Great Shape. Thou art the Great Delight. Thou art the Great Extension. Thou art witness to the Great Cycle. Thou art Sixty-four Sciences. Thou resideth in the Six Chakras. Thou art the Sister of Vishnu. Thou art the Mother of All,—from worm to Brahma. All is formed from Thy Self. Thou art the Mother. Thou art the Queen of the Universe. Thou art Woman. Thou art the Possessor of all Sciences. Thou art in the Science. Thou art Mother. Thou art Maya of Vishnu. Thy Body is the Matter. Thou possesseth All Forms. Thou art the object of the World Thou art in the Six Chakras. Thou art our Mother. Thou art the Black Color. Thou art the Mother of the Universe and Ether. Thou art Fascinating. Thou art Enthusiasm. Thou art attended by the God of Love. Thou art in the Head. Thou art in the Forehead. Thou art All Qualities. Thou art divinely Formed. Thou containest all the Universe in Thyself. Thou art firmly Established Thou art Brahmi; female part of Brahma. Thou art the Spirit of Gladness in Dominion. (in the six Chakras). Thou art the Mother of Wisdom. Thou art the Sciences. Thou art I. Thou art the Earth. Thou art Mother of All. Thou art in the Meru (Chakra). Thou art the Highest Ether. Thou art the desire that creates the Worlds. Thou art Reality. Thou art Mother of All. Thou art the Foundation of All. Thou art experienced in all Forms. Thou livest in the Holy place Thou art the Mother of Heroes. Thou art Ether. Thou art the Mover of the earthly wheel (she moves the world). Thou art Revolution. Thou art Reality Itself. Thou art the meaning of the World. Thou art the Deities. Thou art Mother of the Universe. Thou art Strong. Thou art Feminine. Thou art Pure Minded. Thou art the Deity of the Chakras. Thou art the Mother Thou art Sinless. Thou fullfillest desire. Thou art residing in the Six Chakras.146
Know then that Prakriti is nature and nature is Maya. Prakriti is the one unborn being, white, red, and black uniform, but producing manifold offspring. There is one unborn being who is the Self who loves her and lives by her. 147
This space is ever filled up completely by the woman (or the feminine principle) surely. She, who is of the form of the Three Guna (qualities or energies of Nature) brings forth the Universe with movable and immovable (objects).148
The Goddess, the Divine Mother(Devi) is the great Shakti. She is Maya, for of Her the maya which produces the sangsarais. As Lord of Maya She is Mahamaya (great Maya).149
Tibetan Buddhist, Tumo
Visualizing the Goddess
In the first of five preliminary Tumo exercises, you are required to visualize yourself as the goddess VajraYogini a naked, virginal, 16-year-old Tantric divinity who personifies spiritual energy. She has luminous ruby-red skin and a visible third eye in the middle of her forehead. See yourself in the form of this goddess about your own size. Once the image is established, imagine yourself growing. Continue to grow until VajraYogini’s form is large enough to encompass the entire universe.150
The Okanagan Indians
Old One created a woman as the world. He took the tiny earth that was first here, rolled it out, and pulled it like dough until it became Earth Woman. Her head was in the west, where the rivers flow and where we go when we die. Trees and other plants are her hair, the soil is her body, stones are her bones, and the wind is her breath. Old One made the animals out of little pieces of her body. He blew on them to give them life151
Ancient Greece
In the beginning Eurynome, Queen of the circling universe and the goddess of all things rose naked from chaos152
Buddhism
It came time for the bodhisattva to fall from Tsuita Heaven and light rays came out of each and every hair follicle of the bodhisattva’s body. These rays were as numerous as the grains of sand in countless Buddha fields; and they were illuminations that are the source of all the wondrous virtues that belong to the mother of all the tathagatas, and contained within them the hosts of excellent virtues that belong to the mother of all the bodhisattvas. These rays illuminated the entire world system and then fell onto my body. They entered into my body from the tip of my head and then penetrated every pore of my body. Thus, O noble son, did those rays of light that had come from the bodhisattva, those rays of light with their many names, rays of light that give rise to the magical appearances associated with the mother of all the bodhisattvas, all entered my body. 153
And, O noble son, when those light rays entered into my body, my body came to embrace the entire world, my womb became as expansive as the ether, but at the same time neither my body nor my womb exceeded normal human proportions. And then all of the magical manifestations of the palaces in which the bodhisattvas are to dwell while in their mother’s womb, all of these palaces in all the ten directions, could be seen within my body; they could all be seen right inside my body. 154
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153 Phyllis Granoff from the Gandavyuhasutra pp. 346-347.
154 Phyllis Granoff from the Gandavyuhasutra pp. 346-347.
146 Rishi Singh Gherwal.pp.89-136.
147 Shvetashvatara Upanishad 4
148 SurendranathDasgupta.p. 1.
149 Trans Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). MahanirvanaTantra. Introduction
150 J.H. BRENNAN
151 Leach. p 55–57.
152 Graves.R. p. 27.
135 The Power of Myth. Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
136 Cavendish. R. Ed. P. 42.
137 Tao-Te-Ching 1v2
138 Fletcher. J. p. 17. Littleton. C. S. ed. p. 21.
139 The Golden Ass
140 Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer.Apocryphon of John.
141 Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer. The Exegesis on the Soul.
142 Myth in Human History. Grant. L. Voth. Ch 13 and 14.
143 Beier. pp 18–22 and Leach. p 135.
144 Petrullo. V. pp. 238-241.
145 Coleman. J. A. p. 1017.
Hindu
Being alone The Self felt no delight. Therefore men who are lonely feel no delight. He wished for a second. He was large enough to be man and wife together. He then made this his Self to split in two and thence arose husband and wife. Therefore Yajnavalkya said “We two are thus each like half a shell.” Therefore the void that was there is filled by his wife. He embraced her.156
In the beginning this was Self alone, One only. He desired, “Let there be a wife for me that I may have offspring” 157
Blackfeet Indians
Creator Sun decided to make something from mud that would look like his image. This creation was a woman, Creator Sun’s wife. When He had blown in the nostrils of the mud figure she was given life.158
Polynesia
Tangaroa after contemplating the ocean created a feminine force and its form was a stone. He threw it into the waters.159
In Tahiti they say that he then created Hina and mated with her to producethe world160
Dogon of Mali
At the beginning of time Amma existed in the form of a great egg that contained the potential for all creation. The earth He made female.161
In the beginning the one God Amma created sun moon stars and earth. Amma was lonely and drew near to the female Earth to unite himself with it.162
Celts
In the beginning Mother Earth and Father Heaven were great world giants, and they were the parents of a numerous offspring; Heaven in those days lay upon the Earth.163
Lakota Shaman
We have a biological mother and father but our real Father is the Creator Tunkashila, and our real Mother is the Earth. They give birth and life to all the living, so we know we are all interrelated. We all have the same Father and Mother. 164
Bushmen of South Africa
Cagn was the first being; He gave orders and caused all things to appear, and to be made, the sun, moon, stars, wind, mountains and animals. His wife’s name was Coti.165
Dhammai of the region near Burma and Tibet
At first there was neither earth nor sky, Shuzanghu and his wife Zumiang-Nui lived above.166
Ancient Babylon
When there was no heaven, no earth, no height, no depth, no name, when Apsu the sweet water, the first begetter was alone; and Tiamat the bitter water, and that return to the womb, her Mummu, when there were no gods- When sweet and bitter mingled together, no reed was plaited, no rushes muddied the water, the gods were nameless, natureless, futureless, then from Apsu and Tiamat in the waters gods were created, in the waters silt precipitated. From the belly of Tiamat all of the gods came. [She was their mother and Apsu was their father].167
Pawnee American Indians
Highest of all is Tirawa (Father Heaven) the Great Spirit who created and informs every other spirit, is the husband of the female spirit who presides over the vault of the sky.168
Maori of New Zealand
Men had but one pair of primitive ancestors; they sprang from the vast heaven that exists above us, and from the earth which lies beneath us. According to the traditions of our race, Rangi (Father Heaven) and Papa, (Mother Earth), were the source from which, in the beginning, all things originated. Darkness then rested upon the heaven and upon the earth, and they still both clave together, for they had not yet been rent apart; and the children they had begotten were ever thinking amongst themselves what might be the difference between darkness and light.169
Jivaro of Ecuador
In the beginning there were two parents Kumpara the creator and Chingaso his wife.170
Wahungwe of Zimbabwe
God created the first man, Mwuetsi. God gave him a ngona horn filled with ngona oil and told him he would live at the bottom of the waters. Mwuetsi said to God “I want to live on the land”. God reluctantly agreed, but said Mwuetsi would give up immortality if he did. After a while Mwuetsi complained of loneliness, so God sent him a woman, Massassi, to keep him company. Each night they slept on opposite sides of a campfire, until one night Mwuetsi jumped over the flame and touched Massassi with a finger he had moistened with the ngona oil. In the morning Massassi was huge, and soon gave birth to plants and trees until the whole earth was covered by them. Soon God took Massassi away. Mwuetsi wept for a long time, so God sent him another woman, Morongo. On the first night Mwuetsi touched her with his oiled finger, but she said she was different to Massassi, and that they would have to oil their loins and have intercourse. This they did, this night, and every night thereafter.171
Krachi of Africa
Wulbari lay on top of Mother Earth, AsaseYa and there was little space for man to move about in.172
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166 Verrier.E. p. 13.
167 Enuma Elish
168 Littleton. C.S. ed. p.492.
169 GREY. G.p.1.
170 Sterling. M. M. p. 124.
171 Freund, P. 147–152 and Frobenius L, Fox D. C.Pp 215-219.
172 Radin. R. ed. P. 28.
156 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.1-4
157 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.17
158 Bullchild, P, pp. 64, 65
159 Burland. C.A. pp.12
160 Coleman. J. A. p. 978
161 Littleton. C.S p.p.628
162 Parrinder. G. P. 27.
163 Rhys. J. pp. 669-671
164 Black Elk. W. P. 4.
165 Orpen. J.A.p.143
This Pygmy creation story is a good overall picture of what took place…
Chameleon heard a strange noise, like water running, in a tree,
but at that time there was no water in the world.
He cut open the trunk,
and water came out in a great flood that spread all over the earth.
The first human couple emerged with the water.173
Chameleon is The-Spirit.
The tree is of course The-Man. The cutting of the tree is the sacrifice of The- Man.
The water is Chaos.
After the sacrifice the waters of chaos result.
The first human couple is The-Man resurrected and The-Woman created.
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173 Parrinder, pp. 46-47
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