Who is she? Who worships with her? Why would you follow her?

Question

Her worship continued unabated clear up until its
violent suppression by Iron Age patrism. When and where worship of the Mother prevailed women and Nature were held in esteem. The Chinese called Her Kwan Yin; the Egyptians knew Her as Isis; the Navajo call Her Changing Woman. To the Greeks She was Gaia, and to many black peoples She is Yemanja. She is Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, and She says: "All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals." She is also the ancient Crone Hecate,who gives us both wisdom and death.
She is diversity. There can be no such thing as all "Good" or all "Evil." Death is part of the natural cycle as night follows day and we accept it with grace as Her final gift. The search for Balance is the goal of Her people. It is achieved by the acceptance of multiple paths and truths. The eldest and greatest aspect of is as Great Mother Nature, the all-encompassing energy of Universal Life.

Answer 1

She is Gaia
Yes i will follow her to the end of my days.

I Am Your World

I am the air you breath each morning

I am the Earth on which you walk

I am the Sun that warms your back

I am the Moon that lights your way

I am the water you drink to survive

I am the metal from which you make your tools

I am the trees in the forest

I am the flowers beneath your feet

I am the dog that barks in the evening

I am the fish that swim in the sea

I am the wool to make your clothes

I am the oil that fires your hearth

I am the rock to build your home

I am the waves that fill the oceans

I am the mountain that you climb

I am the wind that blows through your bones

I am the stars in the night sky

I am the rain that falls on your lawn

I am the music that fills the air

I am the food on your table

I am your Mother and your lover

I am the one you hold most true

I am all around, and no where

I am beside you in your fears

I am in you and support you

I am your Mother Goddess and your best friend.

Answer 2

I believe that as with any power in the Universe there is bound to be an ebb and flow of beliefs and believers. Time is the great equalizer.

As you say...there is nothing which is "all good" or "all bad." Everything on the face of this earth and beyond had a light side and a shadow side.

I think that more important to our existence than who we follow is the simple acknowledgment that Love Is All There Is. This is the Universal Truth and whatever mask it wears is of little consequence.

Answer 3

Beautifully stated. Thank you. She is the Universal Mother, the Great Goddess, in all her beautiful and glorious aspects. Personally, I resonate with with Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion, and am dedicated to Cerridwen.

Cerridwen is a Welsh triple Goddess, Maid, Mother, and Crone, whose totem animal is the great white sow. She is associated with the moon, inspiration, poetry, prophecy, shape-shifting, and life and death. Cerridwen's appearance in your life heralds a time of death and rebirth. Something is dying and needs to be let go of, so something new can be born. We know the earth's dance of death and rebirth as the seasons. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, but undergoes transformation. So do we. To live fully and in wholeness we need to accept life in all that it is, which includes death and rebirth. Let go of what does not serve you and your wholeness. Living in a partiarchal culture has deprived most of us of the Goddess's way of death and rebirth. Wholeness is nurtured whe we say yes and do our dance with death and rebirth. The Goddess says you will always get back what you give to me. It will be changed, it will be transformed, but you will get it back

Answer 4

Very well said... she knew religion was bad for the earth and didn't allow people to create religion... And as religions grew on the earth so did the evil... All these female presences you mention are from her and in her entirety she became mother of nature... the one to bring balance... her work is just surfacing today.... and as we go forward in understanding and growing in true knowledge we will come to understand the evils of religion....

a footnote as she researched religion at the end of last century her presence was such that she was mistakenly called Jehovah....

Answer 5

Well I will say it again, she is the Glorious Goddess, I do, because she is in my heart and soul. I had to comment here also, because the difference in the answers here and in M&F shocked me. Why are people sooooo mean here? The contrast astounds me!
)o( Blessed Be!

Answer 6

I tend to disagree with what you SEEM to be saying that all Goddesses are simply aspects of the "Divine Feminine". However that being said, I do worship the various Goddesses of my religion because they are right FOR ME.

Answer 7

As a Wiccan, I don't believe Gaia (a mother) and Aphrodite (an initiatrix) are the same god, sorry.

Answer 8

I like that you see this same energy with so many names
it is how I like to think of any deity who shares aspects

Answer 9

You consider death as part of the normal cycle, but you could not be more wrong.

If Adam and Eve did not sin, they would have lived forever. Death came upon them through disobedience to God.

He told them they could eat of all the trees in the garden, but the tree of good and evil. He told them that in the day they ate of the fruit, they would surly die.

The devil deceived them saying they would not die, but would be as God, would be gods. They chose his lie over the truth of God's Word and they died.

You can continue to believe that death is natural. Yet, when you suffer physical death you will discover that death in sin brings eternal torment.

And the thing that will torment you the most is knowing that you could have escaped this torment if you would have only believed the Word of God.

Answer 10

I'm hard polytheist too, but I get your point. It's the feminine divine. :)