Montserrat
& Candelaria
Amsterdam
and Nashville (Dec 14th 2006-january 4th 2007)
I
have been to Vaishno Devi…and it was an awesome experience…
While
I was in Barcelona (Dec 2005) I had the good luck of visiting
Montserrat.
Allow
me to share my experience with you!
The
mountain looks like, well what can I say? See the photograph
yourself.
What
is Montserrat?
Is
it a mountain…A church…a monastery…?
For
me it was beautiful experience!
Hinduism
believes in the power of Mother…so does Christianity and
many other faiths!
What
I find fascinating is that a lot of Mother temple and churches
are in the mountains…I am sure that it means something…maybe
‘Mother’ sits Highest or that She is the Feminine
Principle of Our Creator…
Who
is Mother God?
Sylvia
Browne writes:
…
In some of my earlier books, I addressed the existence of a
female God, but did not offer information on Her functions.
How far can She go? What does She look like? Why and when can
we call on Her, and what are Her guidelines?
…
From the beginning of recorded history, the Mother God or
Goddess has played a major part not only in creation, but also
as the great interceptor. In fact, She takes on many different
roles and appears to us in many different ways.
Elizabeth
A. Johnson, SCJ, is a Distinguished Professor of Theology at
Fordham University and the author of numerous books. In “A
Theological Case for God-She” (Commonweal Magazine,
January 29, 1993), she states that the scriptures abound with
female imagery of the Deity. She adds that there’s no reason
we can’t use this imagery ourselves when we think about God.
Johnson describes some of Azna’s (Mother's) various roles
and appearances, citing the following scriptural evidence:
She
is the giver of life who pervades the cosmos like a mother
bird hovering over the primordial chaos (Genesis 1:2). She
shelters those in difficulty under Her wings (Psalm 17:8) and
bears up the enslaved on Her great wings toward freedom
(Exodus 19:4). Like a mother, She knits new life together in
the womb (Psalm 139:13); like a midwife, She works deftly to
bring about the new creation (Psalm 22:9–10); like a
washerwoman, She scrubs away bloody stains of sin (Psalm
51:7). These and other such symbols invoke the exuberant,
life-giving power of women.
Names
for the Mother God
Just as God the Father is known by many names—Allah,
Jehovah, Yahweh, God, Om, Father, and a few more—names for
the Mother God number in the hundreds, depending on the
culture, the country, or the need people have for Her at any
given time.
She has more names than God the Father. She is known as the
love goddess, the killer goddess, the retribution goddess, the
protection goddess, and the fertility giver. She is known as
Mary and as Ajysyt, the Mother Goddess of the Yakuts of
Siberia who records every new birth in a golden book and
brings our souls to Earth for birth. She is also called Pinga,
the benevolent Inuit goddess who protects all living
creatures. In Lithuania, she is Ausrine, the goddess of dawn.
In Babylonia, she was Ereshkigal, the goddess of the
underworld. As an aside, Mother God was known by the ancient
Israelites as Asherah and was considered by many to be the
bride of Yahweh. Isn’t it amazing what time does to history,
or vice versa?
Mother
resides not only in the mountains. Hindus believe that Laxmi
(The Godess of Wealth) came from the waters of the Ocean. In
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, the Patron
Virgin Mother is Candelaria, who emerged from the sea.
See the picture below and visualize Her Grace.
Read:
My Trip to Vaishno Devi
Amsterdam
and Nashville (Dec 14th 2006-january 4th 2007)
click:
http://shacune.blogspot.com
