Girl God Books

20/09/2025

“This constant fight against matriarchal religion and custom is the primary theme of the Old Testament. It begins in Genesis, with the takeover of the Goddess’s Garden of Immortality by a male God, and the inversion of all her sacred symbols—tree, serpent, moon-fruit, woman—into icons of evil. Of the two sons of Eve and Adam, Cain was made the “evil brother” because he chose settled agriculture (matriarchal)—the “good brother” Abel was a nomadic pastoralist (patriarchal). The war against the Goddess is carried on by the prophets’ rantings against the “golden calf,” the “brazen serpents,” the “great harlot” and “Whore of Babylon” (the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar), against enchantresses, pythonic diviners, and those who practice witchcraft. It is in the prophets’ war against the Canaanite worship of “stone idols”—the Triple Moon Goddess worshiped as three horned pillars, or menhirs. One of her shrines was on Mount Sinai, which means “Mountain of the Moon.” Moses was commanded by “the Lord” to go forth and destroy these “idols”—who all had breasts. We are told monotheism began with the Jews, that it was the great “spiritual invention” of the religious leader Moses. This is not so. The worship of one God, like everything else in religion, began with the worship of the Goddess. Her universality has been duly noted by everyone who has ever studied the matter. “Monotheism, once thought to have been the invention of Moses or Akhnaton, was worldwide in the prehistoric and early historic world,” i.e., throughout the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages.2 As E. O. James wrote in The Cult of the Mother Goddess, “It seems that Evans was correct when he affirmed that it was a ‘monotheism in which the female form of divinity was supreme.’ ”3 The original monotheism of the Goddess is perhaps most clearly shown by the fact that, in Elizabeth Gould Davis’s words, “Almighty Yahweh, the god of Moses and the later Hebrews, was originally a goddess.” His name, Iahu ’anat, derives from that of the Sumerian Goddess Inanna.”

-Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, “The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth”

Art by Monica Sjöö

20/09/2025

"This is a deeply spiritual work, beautifully articulating the sacrality and the profundity of our lives and of the cosmos. Glenys Livingstone writes of communions, celebrations, wonderfully creative ceremonies, the continuity of life: our turns around the Wheel of the Year."

-Miriam Robbins Dexter, Author of Whence the Goddesses: a Source Book and Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia

20/09/2025

“The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.”

― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Art: Eve's Granddaughter by Sue Ellen Parkinson

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20/09/2025

"This is perhaps the most crucial time in our history: a time of the utmost depravity, corruption, greed, and barbarism; a time of lies, subterfuge and the perpetration of evil on a planetary scale, but also a time of potential breakthrough to a higher level of consciousness, recognizing that we are inseparably connected to each other, to the world around us and to the wider universe, and that each one of us has a vital role to play in bringing our world back into harmony with the evolutionary intention of the cosmos. In the language of Alchemy, this means reconnecting the Great Below with the Great Above as in the extraordinary image on the page opposite. We tread a path which is on the knife edge between birthing this new vision on the one hand and social disintegration and regression into barbarism — perhaps the virtual extinction of our species — on the other.

We live in a world culture that could be described as insane. It is insane because the Great Below has for millennia become disconnected from the Great Above, the visible, material world from the invisible one. The planet is controlled by leaders who are in thrall, as they were two thousand years ago, to what Jesus called Caesar or the ‘Ruler of the World’. The Ruler of the World is the addiction to power, conquest, weapons, and war. Hundreds of thousands of young men have been killed in the current wars that are devastating the planet. Their deaths cause inconceivable suffering to their families. There is no recognition in our world about what is of supreme value, supreme importance."

-Anne Baring, Divine Wisdom and the Holy Spirit: The Forgotten Feminine Face of God.

Art by Živa Žena

20/09/2025

Prayer to Asherah by Marni Grimm

I stand outside your sacred grove and smell the cleansing salt water of the ocean,
The waves beckoning me to enter and begin a sacred journey.
I stand within your sacred grove and feel your ancient roots supporting me,
Matriarchal lineages entwining and guiding.
I stretch in your sacred grove and see the stars shining above me,
Sparks of spirit urging me on, buoyed by the power of your dark moon.
I kneel in your sacred grove and hear the whispers of my ancestors, sending you their prayers,
Messages flow to me, insistently yet gently bringing awareness.
I feast in your sacred grove and taste the cakes I have prepared in your honor,
Grateful for the fulcrum from which my dual paths spring forth.
Over and over, kings cut down your asherim.
Over and over, kings tried to uproot you.
Over and over, kings burned your groves.
But they only served to compost layers of fertile soil intermixed with the worship of women,
Laying the foundation for new saplings to grow.

And the women waited.
And now we rise.
Etz Chayim, arboreal goddess, may you watch over us from your view on high.
May you sustain us from your roots below.
May you be reinstated from a place to your rightful place.
Chadesh yameinu k’kedem,
Renew our days of old.
May it be so.

Art and words by Marni Grimm. Featured in our anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.

20/09/2025

A Sacred Woman knows that she is the embodiment of the Sacred Feminine. She remembers that Goddess already exists within her: Goddess is her DNA. Indeed, a Sacred Woman reclaims herself as Goddess – a unique strand, frequency and incarnation of her – essential for the completion and wholeness of the spectrum of the collective Feminine.

Our bodies are the gateway to recalling this truth. Mentorship with Goddess is a workbook – a year-long programme – a rite of passage – especially useful for the transition into autonomous adulthood – and also for the menopause journey. The programme can be undertaken solo or as a group. The specific aim is growing Sacred Womanhood.

Mentorship with Goddess is an embodied education and evolution, which combines metacognition, intuition, and instinct. It is principally about discovering, accepting, and loving yourself, and simultaneously protecting and vulnerably showing up as your whole Self in the world.

The concrete reality of fully embodying the Sacred Feminine will become clear as you learn and evolve through the mentorship Goddess offers. No one can tell you what it will look or feel like – you discover it for yourself. Self-leadership, self-management, and self-direction, via internal wisdom, courage, and truth, are the gifts of Goddess.

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20/09/2025

"In the PaGaian wheel Autumn Equinox is understood as a point of balance of the three qualities of Goddess, of Cosmogenesis: the delicate balance of these qualities that keeps it all spinning. It is not a simple duality. All at once, the three faces of Cosmogenesis are present. As Seed, She is both sovereign of the underworld – Old Wise One fertile with knowledge (the autopoiesis of the Cosmos), and at the same time the irrepressible Urge to Be (unique differentiated being); and She is the Mother, Source of Life (the communion of the Cosmos). As Goddess, She may be named Persephone/Kore, Demeter/Ceres and Hecate – all three in each other in a complex triplicity. This is a blessed Moment of a harmony/balance that streams through the grief and the ecstasy of life. The Seed may represent all Three as they are inseparable, a holy trinity, and the sacred balance." -Glenys Livingstone PhD

Art by Meinrad Craighead