She's a playa, not a preacher, but [Maria Muldaur] can't resist speaking out on the state of the world in her most recent album, Yes We Can! (TelArc). The former Jim Kweskin Jug Band lead singer is most famous, of course, for hits like "Midnight at the Oasis," "Don't You Feel My Leg" and "It Ain't The Meat, If s The Motion," earning her the unofficial moniker "Fertility Goddess" because of the number of children conceived by couples under her raunchy spell. I got the idea for the album in the fall of 2007," she continues. "I was never one to gravitate to protest music, but it morphed into a pro-peace album because of everything that was going on. It wasn't until I was mixing it that someone said, 'Do you realize Barack's using that phrase, 'Yes, We Can' as his campaign slogan? You shou...
CHEYENNE -- A jubilant group of worshippers marched past bright yellow daffodils and vibrant purple crocuses on Sunday, celebrating these first messengers of spring and welcoming in the season of the fertility goddess, Oestre. Shaking rattles, rainmakers and maracas, ceremony leaders said the racket chases away the spirit of Old Man Winter and "pounds spring into the Earth.
Ostara, the first day of spring on March 20, is a pagan Sabbat celebrating the Spring equinox, a day of equal light and dark that heralds the return of growth and fertility. The goddess represented by the newly green Earth and budding plants, has returned from a cold winter retreat; and the warmth of the sun, the god who fertilizes and provides the energy for everything to grow.
Ostara, the first day of spring on March 20, is a pagan Sabbat celebrating the spring equinox, a day of equal light and dark that heralds the return of growth and fertility. The goddess represented by the newly green earth and budding plants, has eturned from a cold winter retreat; and the warmth of the sun, the god, which fertilizes and provides the energy for everything to grow.
What is the Spring Equinox anyway? Commonly known as the day of equilibrium, the Spring (or Vernal) Equinox marks the point when the hours of sunlight and the hours of darkness are equal. Technically speaking, the Spring Equinox is merely the result of the Earth's rotation around the sun. This effect gives us the seasons, depending on which hemisphere is angled toward the sun and which is turned away. This phenomenon occurs only twice a year, at the Spring and Autumn Equinox. The Spring Equinox is also known as Ostara, who was the pagan goddess of spring and fertility--the two are often linked because of new life emerging this time of year. If Pagan Equinox practices intrigue you, the local teaching coven Prism Wheel will conduct an Ostara ritual. This coven will join Our Lady of the Wo...
Nahua" does not refer to any one indigenous ethnic group, but I use it to refer "to the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of Postclassic [C.E. 900-1521] highland central Mexico," including the Mexica (Aztecs) who were the dominating power at the time of the colonial encounter and contemporary peoples who trace their genealogies to these groups.3 Tonantzin forms part of the story of "transculturation," that is, of cultural loss, cultural persistence, and the creation of hybrid cultural forms mediated through power relations in sixteenth-century Mesoamerica.4 However, although the construction of Malinche as Guadalupe's "monstrous double" has been widely discussed, there have been fewer attempts to analyze the significance of Tonantzin as Guadalupe's bruja-ized (witched) Other in colonial discour...
... energy of "agricultural and human fertility," as well as the energy of creationdestruction tha...
AT its most fundamental level, Easter is about the celebration of life. Whether it's children running and screaming through the park looking for brightly colored eggs or Christians reverently remembering the sacrifice and miracle that is the foundation of their faith - Easter is about the hope tomorrow holds. The holiday dates to the ancient Saxons' celebration of the return of spring with a festival honoring the fertility goddess, Easter.
In one week, we will observe a celestial milestone that stargazing humans have celebrated in one form or another for centuries. Feb. 2 roughly marks the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, when our weather fortune turns a corner and a little flicker of anticipation for spring begins to tickle at winter's harsh edge. Pagans celebrated the day as Imbolc, a festival marking the holy day of the goddess of fire, healing and fertility, Brigid. Sacred fires were lit in observance of the sun's increasing power. The observation of the astronomical event held great significance for the anticipated success of the coming year's crops.
HONOLULU (AP) -- A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system has been given a Hawaiian name: Haumea, after the Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility. Haumea's name was approved Wednesday by the International Astronomical Union in Paris.
Witchcraft embraces countless traditions," she writes. "In Wisconsin alone, there are Faeries, gay men vehemently opposed to patriarchy; the Dianics, radical feminists worshipping the goddess Diana only; Gardnerians, men and women celebrating fertility and family; the shamans, people in a Native American tradition; and countless others.
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