Do you call yourself a vegan, a vegetarian, a lacto-vegetarian, a person intolerant of wheat or dairy or citrus or some other food product? Do you find yourself worrying about what you will eat, how much or how little? Do you carry around potions and pills to boost your nutrition and count the amount of water you drink each day? In other words, do you define yourself by what you put in your mouth?
Read MoreI set myself the task of writing about hunger and the Goddess without any clear idea of which Goddesses I would write of, but my Google search (“Goddess +hunger”) quickly turned up Hel or Hela, certainly a Scandinavian Goddess but also connected to other northern European countries. And what a Goddess!
Read MoreThe great Mysteries at Eleusis are one of the most astonishing stories in human history, because they are still mysterious in so many ways. It seems that over two thousand years of initiation for both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, no-one ever talked about what happened in the Rites.
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