How did the Ancient Priestesses embody the Goddess?

What does it mean to be an embodiment of the goddess? 

Three to five thousand years ago in Minoan Crete, known to be our last European goddess culture, the goddess was experienced by the people through the vessel of her priestess. 

We have lots of carvings, paintings and seals that depict what is called the “epiphany” of the goddess – the goddess descending (often in the form of a bird) to earth as the priestess holds out her arms to receive her into her body. 

Yes. 

The Goddess would be manifested in the world by taking on the hands, heart and eyes of a human devotee. 

And our mind-focused culture supposes that she must have dispensed oracles, made judgements, talk and do stuff that makes use of this very specialised and scarce resource of an embodied goddess…

… but it’s much more likely that the Goddess just emanated presence and love through her vessel of the Priestess, and the key point is that this wasn’t scarce. This was just a part of every day life for the Minoan people. Goddess was not only in every hill and tree and rock but embodied in her priestesses in every town and village, so there were hands that could hold you.   

We have thrones decorated with moons in council chambers in the ancient ruins of the labarythine cities of Minoan culture in Crete – thrones where perhaps the priestess sat, embodying and projecting the love presence of the goddess as the elders decided the next course of action for the town. 

(And we know they were not thrones for kings, as the archaeologists who discovered the Minoan culture in the late 19th century assumed, because there are no inscriptions, paintings, carvings or seals describing a specific king… and as we all know, kings LOVE to plaster their face and name on everything they can.) 

We have archaeological evidence that the priestesses would sit at the windows of their houses and be the goddess, shining her embodiment and channelling her energy for everyone, so you could be on your way to the bakers house and receive a hit of divine love on your way, or give an offering of herbs from your hearth to the goddess in person and receive her presence in return. 

Can you imagine having an embodiment of the goddess two doors down from you, that you could pass every day and feel the Goddess as a part of your every day life, in your town, knowing the names of the babies and the elders and the heartaches of the people?  

Before the divine was separated from the earth she was considered a part of every day life.  

This is a big culture shock for modern folk. We are so used to the divine being so perfect, so much better and higher than ourselves, that to truly embrace the idea of Her being embodied through human vessels is a big ask. Who are these priestesses who have the AUDACITY to believe they can be the goddess?! From centuries of the church enforcing and elitist hierarchy over who was allowed to access the divine and who was not, the idea of regular people being able to connect with and embody the goddess without decades of punishing study or “proving themselves” is revolutionary. 

Because if the Goddess was PRESENT in your town at the priestess house every Tuesday night, you could just go to her and receive her love every week. No heroic quest needed, no spending all week meditating so you can raise your vibration enough to receive her. She’s just there. And you can have that communion with her. And you don’t have to prove anything to deserve it. 

Isn’t that phenomenal?

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