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	The White Goddess
		The Goddess is a lovely, slender woman with a hooked nose, deathly pale face, lips red as rowan-berries, startlingly blue eyes and long fair hair; she will suddenly transform herself into sow, mare, bitch, vixen, she-ass, weasel, serpent, owl, she-wolf, tigress, mermaid, or loathsome hag....
		As Goddess of the Earth she was concerned with the three seasons of Spring, Summer, and Winter: She animated trees and plants and ruled all living creatures.
		In one sense it is the pleasant whiteness of pearl-barley, or a woman's body, or milk, or unsmutched snow; in another it is the horrifying whiteness of a corpse, or a spectre, or leprosy....
	www.serve.com /Lucius/Graves.index.html (1406 words)

	The White Goddess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The author and poet Robert Graves' study of the nature of poetic myth-making, The White Goddess, first published in 1948, and revised, amended and enlarged in 1966, represents a tangential approach to the study of mythology from a decidedly idiosyncratic perspective.
		It proposed the existence of a European deity, the White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death, represented by the phases of the moon, who he argued lies behind the faces of the diverse goddesses of various European mythologies.
		Graves' The White Goddess deals with goddess worship as the prototypical religion, analyzing it largely from literary evidence, in myth and poetry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Goddess (750 words)

	Triple Goddess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In ancient Indo-European mythologies, it is common for goddesses or demi-goddesses to appear as a trinity or triad, either as three separate beings who always appear as a group (the Greek Moirae, Charites, Erinnyes and the Norse Norns) or as a single deity who is commonly depicted in three aspects (The Greek Hecate).
		The Goddess triad is an essential feature of the Shakti forms of Hinduism and a distinction is made between the separate goddesses Sarasvati, Lakshmi and Kali and their manifestation as three aspects of MahaDevi ("The Great Goddess") when they are named MahaSarasvati, MahaLaksmi, and MahaKali.
		The three aspects of the goddess are the Maiden (Greek Persephone), pure and a representation of new beginnings; the Mother (Greek Demeter), wellspring of life, giving and compassionate; and the Crone (Greek Hecate) wise, knowing, a culmination of a lifetime of experience.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Triple_Goddess (2183 words)

	Goddess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Goddess is the substance of the universe, she is the womb from which we all have sprung.
		Holda is a fierce Germanic goddess of the sky, whose nocturnal rides with the souls of the unbaptised dead led to the Christian association of her with the demonic aspects of the wild hunt.
		Kali is the Hindu goddess of death, destruction, fear and terror, and is the wife-consort of Siva, the destroyer.
	citadelofthedragons.tripod.com /goddess.html (1903 words)

	Goddess Symbols: White Buffalo Calf Woman symbols and myths. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Goddess symbols, individualized for each goddess, were incorporated into the worship of the ancient goddesses, were often worn as jewelry, and also used in the household decor as talismans to seek the goddesses special gifts, blessings, or protection.
		goddess symbols come from the legends surrounding a specific goddess and were "characters" in her story.
		goddess symbols were derived from the rituals used in the ancient rites of worship of these pagan goddesses.
	www.goddessgift.com /goddess-myths/goddess_symbols_White_Buffalo_Calf_Woman.htm (173 words)

	Tara, Goddess of Peace and Protection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The ancient Egyptian Goddess IshTar who, in her myths, came to earth from the heavens and instructed her people to comingle and intermarry with the earthlings to give them the benefits of their learning and wisdom was yet another incarnation of the Goddess Tara.
		In the legends of Tibet where the worship of the Goddess Tara is still practiced in the Buddhist tradition, it is told that the goddess Tara is the feminine counterpart of the Avalokitesvara, the Buddha who is reincarnated as the Dalai Lama.
		It is told that she first appeared rising from a lotus blossom in the lake that had formed from his first tears of compassion, tears that fell when he first beheld the scope of suffering in the world.
	www.goddessgift.com /goddess-myths/goddess_tara_white.htm (916 words)

	The White Goddess
		The BLN poetically reveals the story of the life of the Son-lover of the White Goddess, the sacrificial god-king in the Frazerian sense, who is sacrificed in mid-summer and is reborn at the winter solstice.
		The White Goddess would also imply that most parts of the ancient world were once goddess-worshipping, and that modern religious fragmentation can ultimately be traced to: 1) the deposing of the goddess by a supreme father god and 2) the warring among various father-gods for supreme authority.
		In The White Goddess Graves laments that paganism’s failing is a never-ending cycle of death and rebirth.
	www.druidnetwork.org /reviews/books/white_goddess.htm (2583 words)

	White Tara \| Goddess of Compassion
		White Tara is a goddess which embodies the spirit of Compassion.
		The white of her light when put through the prism of this life shines through as a rainbow, representing the diversity of all life.
		The myth of the White Tara began when she showed up as the tear of Avalokiteshvara, also known as Chenzereng, who the Dali Lama is a reincarnation of.
	www.whitetara.com /whitetara.html (398 words)

	the white goddess
		He lays out his world-view of myth and poetry, man and his muse, in "The White Goddess" which is either the nuttiest or the most brilliant book I've ever read, or possibly both.
		Graves was a poet and novelist by trade, but he brought his worshipful attitude toward womankind into the realm of classical mythology and found a strong connection to the lingering goddess-cult elements in the myths.
		The poet identifies himself with the God of the Waxing Year and his Muse with the Goddess; the rival is his blood-brother, his other self, his weird.
	www.etymonline.com /columns/graves.htm (469 words)

	The White Goddess: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Graves described The White Goddess as "a historical grammar of the language of poetic Poetry quick summary:
		Hexameter is a literary and poetrypoetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the iliad....
		Goddess worship is a general description for the veneration of a female goddess or goddesses....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_white_goddess.htm (2889 words)

	White Goddess
		Describing The White Goddess as a "classic, an influential and oft-quoted work in modern studies", she asserts that its popularity stems not just from its subject matter but that "it shares in its orientation to the past, and in its attitude to myth many of the concepts and assumptions that underpin much neo-pagan Goddess study".
		Even the possibility of turning from the concept of God to the concept of Goddess or Goddesses is a mind and heart shaking process for many women since it allows them to enter the area of the divine as normative beings, rather than as inferior or subordinate adjuncts to the male.
		This is the most fundamental attraction of the Goddess movement to women, and while Graves was certainly not the first to write about the goddess or goddesses, his work hit the imagination of women in the sixties and seventies as the early movement as getting into its stride.
	www.asphodel-long.com /html/white_goddess.html (3436 words)

	Tara - The White Goddess - Ascension Research Center
		The slender, long proportioned body of the goddess is shown dusky olive green in color and her coloring reverberates against the striped cushion of her throne back.
		White Tara is often referred to as the Mother of all the Buddhas.
		This signifies that White Tara is the essence of all the three Buddhas of the past, the present and the future.
	www.ascension-research.org /tara.html (1797 words)

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		The White Goddess acquired new power and attributes, most notably in her manifestation as the Mare Goddess (horses were only food animals before the Indo-Europeans).
		Unless, ignorance of history and the mythic archetypes that structure society is acceptable, reinvention of the Goddess is hardly necessary and indeed almost laughable in conception.
		The latter is almost unique in the manner in which it explores the texts of the epics in great detail and brings to life the flesh and blood goddess with all of her personality and multiple manifestations.
	www.textfiles.com /occult/celtreg.reg (2263 words)

	Meet The Greek Goddess
		Goddess of the Dark of the Moon, the fl nights when the Moon is hidden.
		She and Her Sister Goddess Panacea sprang from the milk of the Goddess Rhea.
		Pandia - All Goddess, one of three daughters of the Moon in Greece.
	www.rac-usa.org /wau/greekgoddess.html (342 words)

	www.robertgraves.org :: View topic - Dove & The White Goddess
		Graves's white goddess is a 3X goddess but we tend to think of her mainly as the mother or maiden and link her to images of the loving female.
		In occult tradition, white symbolises the goddess as Spring; red is Aphrodite, and fl the death aspect of the goddess, say Atropos (the third of the Fates).
		In the Chalcolithic Period, the Great Goddess as Creatrix is called by academics "The Bird and Serpent Goddess" because of her iconographical associations with birds (particularly doves) and serpents (or "dragons").
	www.robertgraves.org /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=322 (877 words)

	Albunea, the Roman White Sibyl, Prophetess and Oracle--white goddess sibyl prophetess oracle albunea tiburtine sibyl ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Albunea, also known as the Tiburtine Sibyl, is the Goddess of the sulphur springs at Albulae Aqua, not far from the modern town of Tivoli, known in ancient times as Tibur.
		Like many Goddesses or Nymphs connected with springs, She was believed to be a healer and prophetess, since spring waters well up from the earth and represent communication between the surface (the land of mortals) and the underworld (the land of the dead and/or the Gods).
		Albunea was associated with Mefitis (a Goddess of noxious swamps) and the Greek Leucothea (whose name means "the White Goddess"), a name of Semele, the reborn mother of Dionysos.
	www.thaliatook.com /albunea.html (904 words)

	The Nemesis of the White Goddess
		She was revered on the mountain heights as in the swampy lowlands, in the rustling woods and by the murmuring spring.
		In ghost stories she often figures as 'The White Lady', and in ancient religions, from the British Isles to the Caucasus, as the 'White Goddess'.
		The test of a poet's vision, one might say, is the accuracy of his portrayal of the White Goddess and of the island over which she rules.
	www.dhushara.com /book/diana/diana.htm (3963 words)

	The Fallen Temple of the White Goddess
		The White Goddess is one of the names given to the Earth Mother; the Moon goddess, to Venus, Astarte, Lilith, Belili, the Muses, the Three Graces and to innumerable other female deities.
		The stories and attributes of the white goddess are remarkably similar in nations as far apart as Ireland and China, and this points to a very ancient common source for the myths, which appear to have come out of Africa with Homo sapiens 100,000 years ago.
		The Rite in the Grove...human sacrifice and the goddess
	www.big.com.au /fallen (657 words)

	Apuleius' Vision of the White Goddess
		When I had ended this oration, discovering my plaints to the Goddess, I fortuned to fall again asleep upon that same bed; and by and by (for mine eyes were but newly closed) appeared to me from the midst of the sea a divine and venerable face, worshipped even of the Gods themselves.
		Their ecstacy burst forth in the single song of all that is, was, or ever shall be, and with the song came motion, waves that poured outward and became all the spheres and circles of the worlds.
		The Goddess became filled with love, swollen with love, and She gave birth to a rain of bright spirits that filled the worlds and became all things.
	unc.edu /~reddeer/white_goddess/00_lwhite.goddess.various.writers.html (753 words)

	Feminism, Poetic Myth, and Alternative Culture: An Homage to The White Goddess
		In Europe there were at first no male gods contemporary with the Goddess to challenge her prestige or power, but she had a lover who was alternatively the beneficent Serpent of Wisdom, and the beneficent Star of Life, her son.
		The Son was incarnate in the male demons of the various totem societies ruled by her, who assisted in the erotic dances held in her honour.
		It must not be forgotten that Apollo himself was once a yearly victim of the Serpent: for Pythagoras carved an inscription on his tomb at Delphi, recording his death in a fight with the local python--the python which he was usually supposed to have killed outright.
	www.alternativeculture.com /lit/goddess.htm (2071 words)

	Lunar cycles and Goddess energies
		As Anna, which means "Goddess Mother," she was known in the Christian tradition as the mother of the Virgin Mary, and thus the grandmother of Jesus.
		Beli "white," bellus "beautiful," bile "sacred tree." Originally, every tree was hers, but above all she was known as a willow goddess, and also of wells, springs, love, and the underworld.
		White heather is the opposite, and protects against acts of passion.
	homestar.org /bryannan/moons.html (2455 words)

	Amazon.com: The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth: Books: Robert Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The White Goddess is a work of introspection and selective interpretation, comparable to those of Jung or Spengler, not one of conventional scholarship.
		Robert Graves believed that all "true" poetry was inspired by, and dedicated to, the White Goddess (or to a woman embodying her attributes)--a "Belle Dame sans Merci"--who brought ecstasy, madness, and death to her chosen lovers.
		TWG cannot be underestimated as a source for pagan theology; it has been the inspiration for a lot of wonderful material.
	www.amazon.com /White-Goddess-Historical-Grammar-Poetic/dp/0374504938 (2322 words)

	The White Goddess
		She is generous, passionate and exuberant and expects the same of those who would honor her.
		The White Goddess Pagan Portal, is an online resource for Pagans, Wiccans and Witches, providing in depth information on a varied range of areas, including, Moon Phases, The Sabbats, Book of Shadows and a Forum for the serious discussion of Pagan topics.
		It is the aim of The White Goddess Pagan Portal to promote a friendly and enjoyable environment for the discussion of Pagan Paths.
	www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk /index.asp (781 words)

	The White Goddess by Robert Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The White Goddess had a profound influence on Gerald Gardner, the modern reinventor of Paganism.
		The White Goddess was one of the first widely available books which uncompromisingly advocated a Goddess-centered spirituality.
		Because of copyright restrictions, we are unable to post an etext of the 'White Goddess'; however, we encourage you to purchase a copy if you have any interest in the subject of Goddess oriented spirituality.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pag/twg.htm (230 words)

	Imbolc recipes
		Serve this delightful white bean hummus as an appetizing dip for crisp veggie
		Combine the puree with the remaining whole white beans and capers, and mix
		white pepper, stir and cook for ten minutes.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /recipes_imbolc.htm (641 words)

	The_White_Goddess, matriarchy, the tree calendar, unicorns, cranes, The Golden Bough, The feast of fools, Marija ...
		This section of the page is devoted the ideas discussed in "The White Goddess" and also "The Golden Bough" by Sir James Frazer, (which is an even more gargantuan book, originally 12 volumes later edited down to a single volume, and recently brought out as an illustrated version.
		I would also recommend "The Goddesses and gods of old Europe 6500-3500 B.C. Myths and cult images" and "The Civilisation of the Goddess" both by Marija Gimbutas, for an archaeologists view of Matriarchal society in Prehistoric Europe.
		Both are beautifully illustrated with prehistoric art, such as The Goddess and sorrowful God sculptures from Cernavoda, Romania.
	www.planetfusion.co.uk /~pignut/The_White_Goddess.html (572 words)

	Goddessing: Goddess Religion, Pagan Blog
		My blog (Goddessing) and my site (Goddess Mystic.com) are places where I explore consciousness, cosmology, and my life and work as a Goddess-identified seeker, mystic, and priestess both in-training and at-work.
		Goddessing is a recent contribution to Goddess vocabulary, following on from Mary Daly's suggestion that Deity is too dynamic, too much in process, changing continually, to be a noun, and should better be spoken as a Verb (following Buckminster Fuller's "God is a verb").
		The lares, guardian spirits/household deities, were venerated by ancient Romans as children of the goddess Lara ("mother of the dead").
	www.goddessmystic.com /blog/blogger.html (2265 words)

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