The soul of a culture cannot evolve if the body is not reclaimed and honoured.
In Navajo mythology, Changing Woman is the creatix.
She is earth and sky, the Lady of the Plants, and of the Sea.
She goes beyond the bearer aspect of the mother;
she is the feminine creator.
Her cosmic cyclic movements-aging each Winter
and becoming a young beautiful maiden each Spring
-make Her the essence of death and rebirth
signature of the continual restoration and rejuvenation of Life.
This ability to move with the creative impulse
without trying to force it is an aspect of the feminine.
There is a quality of the feminine that allows
things to happen in the natural cycle of things.
~ from The Heroine's Journey
by Maureen Murdock
art: Navajo sand painting of Mother Earth
by Marie Akee
