35. YAB YUM! TANTRIKAS!

      The Word became Flesh and dwelt among us,
      full of Grace and Truth.
                 -- John, 1:14

     "Elohim, the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a feminine plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other bibles translate it as "God", but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean Goddesses."
                 -- Robert Anton Wilson, Everything is Under Control

     Aum Mani Padme Hum : the Jewel in the Lotus. Tibetan Tantric Art features Goddesses consorting with Buddhas in sacred coitus, tantrically transcending. Lithe Laksmi, the Avatar-blue, Goddess Dakini, a sensuous zephyr from the sky realm, rains down blessings in coins. Surrender to the Goddess of Compassion, the Green Tara (also known as Kuan Yin), bearing the Blue Lotus Flower of Peace and Tranquility. Murmur Her mantra on a mala strung with rose quartz prayer beads : AUM Tara Tuttare Ture Svaha. Tara and Her Many-Hued, Holy Sisters uphold the Bodhisattvic Oath, a vow to return to this earthy plane, in female form, life after life, until all sentient beings  experience liberation (freedom from suffering). Yellow, Red, and White Taras transmute sins, while the Black Tara, "Ture, Dark Mother of Bones and Blood, silent night and smoldering ruins, teaches us the Sorrow Path of letting go of howling pain and rage."1 thus aiding us in the fearless removal of obstacles.

     The Black Tara is joined by Her Hindu counterparts, fellow Saviors in Vanquishing Form, Kali and Durga, collecting skulls of destroyed egos and brandishing knives to perform Chod, the sacred purification rite. Kali (Sanskrit : Kala : Time) devours Time (Herself) to resume Space, i.e. Dark Eternal Formlessness. Christian shrines throughout Europe honor the fertile Womb of the Universe, with statues of the Black Madonna, a.k.a. Fatima, Islam's feminine form of God. The Hand of Fatima derives from earlier Mesopotamian Qat Goddesses, Ishtar and Inanna, and, in Phoenician culture, represents the All-Seeing, five-fingered vulva of the Goddess Tanit. 

     Multi-cultural Creation myths give birth to green / blue planetary Medicine Women; the Greco-Roman Venus-Aphrodite, South America's Pachamama, the Pacific Northwest Coast First Nation's Copper Woman, the Wiccan religion's Faerie Queen of the May / Mab, Hinduism's hermaphroditic, blue-tinged Krishna / Radha, and Africa's Voodoun Goddess Ezrulie, to name a few. The Virgin Mary and the Yoruban Goddess Yemanja, icons of the deep blue sea, wear blue mantles (trailing off into mermaid tails). Elphaba, Oz' Wicked Witch of the West, sports green skin, and (we suspect) bleeds green as well. The opalescent transparency of the skin of "blue-bloods" (i.e. copper-infused blood) designates (incestuous) royal bloodlines in perpetuity.

     Goddess mythology is based upon the deeds of real women throughout "Herstory", who have chosen to reincarnate in our very midsts. Tales of Pele, the Polynesian Fire / Earth Goddess, abound on the Hawaiian islands, centering around Her Fiery Passion for Life. Her blood, in the form of molten lava, creates new land, as Her flaming rivers / veins seek the cooling sea. She is seen by island mystics (and often picked up hitchhiking!) walking along the roads she's fashioned - a beautiful woman in a red dress, accompanied by a little white dog, or as an elder with long, flowing, white hair. Her sister Laka, the Goddess of Hula, dances the living language of Aloha, in lush green tropical jungles and jasmine-scented rain forests. Earth Goddesses representing!

     Goddesses symbolize the Divine Feminine Aspect of Creation, as well as the love and adoration we receive from, and in return, feel, for our abundant home. Our Mothership Gea (pronounced Jee-Ah, from the Greek, Ge : Earth; Sanskrit, Gayatri), a cosmic womb in Quantum Space, bestowed with an azure atmosphere, scattered clouds, rainbow auroras, and auric lightning spread over purple mountain ranges, emerald valleys, golden deserts, turquoise oceans and cobalt glaciers, is the Great Triple Goddess : the loveliest of Rosy Maidens, a sensually fertile Mamasita, and the wisest Elder / Raven Crone. Undeniably Alive, She compassionately endures our crude disbelief (of Her Sentience) and suffers our painful disrespect.  She will carry us as Her burden, until we humble ourselves at Her feet, rising to resume our rightful place among Her Joyous Co-Creators. We cannot deny we try Her Patience. Her Sublime Nature is to endure and evolve untold species over zillennia. Gee Whiz!

     Gea Earth Star is a Great Witch of Geology, Geomancy, and matriarchal bloodline Genealogy. She is a virtual Geodesic Dome, and the Grande Dame of Sacred Geometry. Her Wiccan symbol is a circled pentagram of bubbling ley lines; connecting Air, Water, Fire, Earth, and Spirit (Space) in constant motion. Her cauldron brimmeth over, with free electromagnetic energy, in thermal pools, synchronic lines, vortices, and ancient temple sites, built atop entrances to the Underworld.

    She is a living, breathing Oracle (represented in ancient Greece as the Deity holding a Key), alchemizing the elements in perfectly balanced equations. Man, the Magician-in-drag, can only praise Her to compare, in dull and destructive imitation (it is ironic that GE (General Electric), one of the world's largest industrial multinationals and toxic waste / chemical pollution producers, stole Her name and mythology, with a tale of their own invention - that of Freemason Benjamin Franklin "capturing" Her energy with a kite and a key).

                            Tesla demonstrating the Tesla Coil, Colorado Springs (1899)
     In contrast, Gean Genius / Superhero, Nicolai Tesla (inventor of alternating current electricity, x-rays, neon lighting, and radio) understood Her energy is freely given, to be freely received, but where's the profit / planetary degradation in that? Tesla's dream of harnessing wireless power from Gea's constantly replenishing electromagnetic storm belt looms on the horizon........
     Gea's proximity relative to the planets (each personified by a God or Goddess) in our solar system birthed the occult art of Astrology. The study of interrelated natural laws, correspondences, and virtues ("As above, so below") forms the esoteric Kabbala / Tree of Life. To commune with the Devas (Divine Beings) within plants, minerals, and animals, we practice tantric intuition, "the art of receiving knowledge with one's inner gaze",  and / or seek direct experience......... 

(for example, the Green Faerie Queen may be channeled by drinking Absinthe, a lively infusion of Artemesia / Wormwood and other herbs, whose Spirit infused the Parisian Art and Culture of la Belle Epoque!).
     "Like mirrors Like" is the basis of the Healing Art of Homeopathy,  to this end, we thank the vast, swirling Cosmos for mirroring cellular structure (DNA) in its likeness (a serpent) (The Universe is a Green Dragon!2). We drink to toast Gea Green Woman's Immortal Wisdom (over 6 billion years young!) and our own health and longevity, with Living Libations / Blood Elixirs - fruits of the tree and juices of the vine. We are Her Rainbow Children, eternally returning, chanting the joyful song of cellular replication :

Merry Come, Merry Part, and Merry Meet Again!3


AUTHOR'S MINOR REVELATION : 

     It's time to pony up, atheists and agnostics. The verifiable existence of Gea as the Planetary Goddess / Earth Mother, demonstrating Intelligent Design in every living atom, proclaimed in AUMing song from the highest mountaintop to the deepest sea, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the existence of (a) God. For She could only Do-Her-Thing by partaking in blissful, tantric coitus with a divine consort, which, my friends, implies the Presence of a Heavenly-Sky-Father, or a Watery-Fish-God, or a Fiery-Subterranean-Ruler-at-the-Earth's-Core....or.....most likely, many Gods-the-Father (if you are aware of what it is like to live in a tribal community of fecund wild women and their daily dalliances). And if you prefer not to give names and faces to the Prime Creative / Preserving / Destructive Forces of Existence, why that's kinda boring, isn't it? Why else were we blessed with the Gift of Language, if not to engage in epic and mythic storytelling?!!! Are not the journeys of the Gods and Goddesses our own?

1 Nu Moon, Aion, Tara Invocation
2  Swimme, Brian, The Universe is a Green Dragon
3  The Wiccan Rede 

                                                Henson, Mark, Spiral Genesis (2004)