(In the picture is Gaia.)
So I recently learned from my girl K-love that BITCH isn't a cuss word along with all the other names that are used against women!!! (Thank you K-love!) ;)
According to a Pagan paper, the term Bitch isn't horrible. This is what K-love found:
She has been known in ancient times and continuously throughout history even up to the moment by names too numerous to mention. She predates Christianity (who adopted her names, her liturgy, her holidays, her rites, and her place of worship) by thousands of years. Remains of her templates and her images have been found on every continent and in every country the world over. For the last two thousand years, she has been abused, misused, maligned, and cast out by those "in control." Her worshippers have suffered rape, the rack, nail screws, stoning, skewering, stampedes, flaying, quartering's, burning, drowning, disembowelment, and any number of other unmentionable tortures in the quest to rid the world of her influence. Yet she lives on, not in our memories as a quaint fertility object from a distant and barbarous past, but as a living, breathing, regenerating entity upon which all humans reside, She is Gaia, the Great Earth Mother, She is also the triple Goddess: maiden, mother, and crone, or creator, sustainer, and destroyer. She is the virgin and she is the sacred whore, The Goddess is back, and she is seeking retribution for the sins of the fathers and the sins of the sons back seven generations.
To understand the defilement of the Great Mother, we need only to look to the language of our times. As children, we are instructed not to say certain words, because they were "bad words." "Cunt," "bitch" and "whore," are representative of those words. Yet when we investigate their etymology, we find not words of debasement, but words of honor and names of the Great Mother.
Bitch: The Bitch Goddess of antiquity was known in all the Indo-European cultures, beginning with the Great Bitch Sarama, who led the Vedic dogs of death. Artemis-Diana, leader of the Scythian Alani or "hunting dogs," was another such Bitch Goddess. Harlots or "bitches" were identified in the ancient Roman cult of the Goddess Lupa, the Wolf Bitch, whose priestesses (the lupae) gave their name to the prostitutes in general.
I only wanted to point out the word bitch because it's the most used in front of me. Now when someone calls me a bitch, I can say "Thank you! I always wanted to be a Goddess." If they don't get that, I will say, "Bitches are dogs, dogs bark, bark is on trees, and trees are a part of nature, and nature is beautiful, so THANK YOU for the compliment." I hope everyone enjoys this. I know I did when K-love pointed it out. There is more to the article, if anyone wants to read the rest, you should ask me or subscribe to The Beltane Papers: A Journal of Woman Mysteries.
I love being a woman now. That made my life a little less insane.
