When the Muse Strikes, Strike Her Back
My trek through the Abrahamic Religions to Find the Missing Goddess
Missing: Have you seen me?
As a messenger of sorts, communicating ideas from beyond the physical realm, whatever you want to call that, I feel particularly qualified to write about this topic: The missing Goddess.
Having no affiliation to any particular set of dogma also has allowed me to examine a wide variety of source material often forbidden or unthinkable by previous religious scholars.
Please pardon my male arrogance as I mansplain this to you, the ignorant multitudes.
Allah as the Divine Feminine
Whenever I am channeling the creative energy from its source, I try to catch a glimpse of the Muse. Not to build an idolatrous lusty reflection of Her, but to see the truth behind centuries of patriarchal lies.
I find it strange that Islam, while it emphasizes that Allah is beyond male/female insists on using only the male pronoun in relation to a name which has its source in a feminine Goddess.
As the above article points out, Hindu merchants traveled through pre-Islamic Arabia. There, they say, was a religious sect who worshiped Alla, the Divine Mother of Creation.
Also, see this article here for a discussion of the reemergence of the Divine Feminine in Islam:
This reemergence of associating Allah with the feminine has been met with staggering resistance from the traditional patriarchy.
Before I veer too far into a tangent, I said that I try to catch a glimpse of the Muse, the creative force from which all ideas spring forth. After 35 years of catching small glimpses, I have come to view the creative force as being like that of the Yin/Yang. Both feminine and masculine with attributes of both in the other.
Sufism and Gnosticism
More so, for my own edification and entertainment, I have begun to visualize this Yin/Yang force as an effeminate male, like Krishna, and a strong warrior Goddess, which, strange enough has similarities in early pre-Islamic Arabia.
The virgin warrior Goddess of the Crescent Moon is Al-Uzza, the Strong.
Note that the crescent moon is a symbol which survived Islamification.
Sufism has always embraced the Divine Feminine. Perhaps this is one of the reasons it is seen as heretical by mainstream Islam. Like Jesus (PBUH), I like the heretical. It is precisely in those outcast elements of divine communication where you find the parts of the message which were shunned by the patriarchal assholes who seized control of a religion, warping its message for their own selfish purposes.
Before I made that discovery, I was a long-time fan of Gnosticism for the same reason I was drawn to Sufism.
It’s heresy and unaccepted, therefore it must contain some truth. It must have a message that those who seek power and control over others don’t like.
Gnosticism contains additional gospels outside the four canonical gospels of the accepted Bible. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Phillip, and surprise, the Gospel of Judas.
These four among the other works of the Nag Hammadi discovered in 1945 offer angles that I think the mature modern reader can handle despite medieval clerics insisting that you will most definitely go to Hell if you so much as think about reading them.
I feel that exploration of these apocryphal gospels gives a more complete picture than the patriarchal forces want us to have. They even include the gospel of a female disciple.
(Note: since when is the word apocryphal defined as “untrue, mythical, false”? It used to mean, as far as I’m aware, “non-Biblical source.”)
A more complete definition can be found from Google with a closely related word: Apocrypha, (from Greek apokryptein, “to hide away”), in biblical literature, works outside an accepted canon of scripture. The history of the term’s usage indicates that it referred to a body of esoteric writings that were at first prized, later tolerated, and finally excluded.
Rampant polytheism in monotheism
This battle between the patriarchy and the Divine Feminine must be of more significance than I realized since they are changing the definition of words right under our noses.
In that case, the patriarchy certainly won’t like what I have to say next and would likely condemn me to eternal hellfire.
Yahweh used to have a wife in Judaism, and it wasn’t Sophia. Sophia, of course, being a goddess associated with Christianity. (Huh?) Sophia was the mother of creation and the wife of Jehovah. (Huh? what?) Yahweh’s wife was Asherah.
Our Abrahamic Monotheisms seem to be begetting lots of little Elohims (gods).
This information would be sure to cause confusion and certain eternal damnation among the illiterate feudal serfs of early Christian Europe.
Of course, Allah is famous for saying that “he never had a wife.” However, he never mentions anything about a husband.
It is more difficult to explore the origins of Islam than Christianity. Western society lets us, to a certain degree, question the beliefs of our forefathers. The strict religious rules of Islamic societies while having more control, do not wield absolute power, making it possible, just more difficult, to examine the origins of Islam.
The daughters of Allah
Allah, unbeknownst to me until just now, had a daughter according to some. That would be Al-Uzza, who I mentioned just a moment ago. Actually, pre-Islamic Allah had three daughters.
They are even mentioned in the Quran, although Muslims scholars will say that Mohammed (PBUH) only did this to appease the pagans of Mecca.
This, of course, calls into question the honesty of the Prophet (PBUH). If he were willing to compromise on this point, what other compromises did he make?
This claim of having three daughters though is consistent with Allah’s claim that he “had no sons.” There are other sections of the Quran which refute that he had any spouse or any children attributed to him, but I will let those slide for now as I can cherry-pick what I’d like to include and what I’d like to discard as well as any simple-minded patriarchal authority from a thousand years ago.
Again, haughty knowers of Absolute Truth, all Muslim men, accuse those who discover these fascinating tidbits of heresy of being ignorant fools, misinterpreting their consistent and infallible Holy Qu’ran.
I find this strange as well since the oldest Quran dates to about 100–150 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH), and the most complete known version to about 170 years P.M. (post-Muhammed (PBUH)).
Wahabbits are going to fatwah me, I can feel it.
Naturally, there are variations between the versions, and this sentence is heretical blasphemy. Many of the oldest Quranic fragments contain only small portions of the entirety of the Qu’ran.
I don’t know about you, but if I were a patriarchal warrior Prince, I might sprinkle in some of my own interpretations of my people’s Holy Book when inciting them to go to war. You can just imagine how many Princes there were on the Arabian Peninsula during the 150 -200 years following the death of Muhammed (PBUH).
Saudi Arabia currently has about 15,000 princes.
It is also noteworthy to mention that only the most traditional and conservative of male Quranic scholars are and were invited to debates surrounding which fragments offered the true unadulterated Holy Word of God and which were heretical knockoffs.
To add insult to injury, honest Quranic scholars cannot even be sure that they are facing the appropriate direction when praying towards the Holy city of. . .Mecca? Some scholars have strong evidence suggesting that the actual location of the Revelation of the Quran was actually Petra, Jordan.
It’s a forgivable mistake to make. Some claim that the graveyard/junkyard of Nazarene didn’t exist either. However, if you look long and hard enough, you’ll find that it was likely a small suburb mostly populated by corpses and rats. Not the sort of place you’d want to raise a young Messiah.
I would caution anyone about being too certain of the creeds of your own religion
It does not matter really if Petra is the original Mecca or if Nazarene existed or not. But it does make me wonder, how can some people with less information and knowledge than myself who have done less research be so certain and dogmatic regarding elements of their belief system?
It’s well accepted that December 25th is not Jesus Christ’s birthday. Heck, it’s well accepted that Jesus Christ’s name is not Jesus Christ. But there are still people today who would self-righteously proselytize either of those ideas to their death.
It was 4 to 10 generations between Jesus’(PBUH) and Mohammed’s(PBUH) deaths before any of the stories about them were written down. I don’t even know the names of my great-great grandfathers, never mind their whole life stories, who they were friends with and the details of what they said.
Sorry for switching camels repeatedly through our meandering trek to find the missing Goddess, but these tangents do offer clues as to what happened to her. Based upon the evidence, I would conclude that she was kidnapped. Then silenced, tortured, and ignored.
I don’t believe there is anything inherently godly about possessing a Y chromosome.
For the sake of brevity, here are some further known aliases of the missing Goddess, should you go looking for her: Yemaya, Innana, Rhiannon, Cebele, Chicomecoatl, Akewa, Aphrodite, Demeter, Gaia, Athena, Shekina, Ganga, Pele, Uma, Kali, Hera, Hecate, Meboze, Oya, Paso Wee, Diana, Sekhmet, Ishtar, Tiamat, Kumari, Lakshmi, Marici, Narodakini, Prajnaparamita, Samantabhadrī, Sitatapatra, Usnisavijaya, Vajrayogini, Vasudhara, and Yakshini.
Anyone with enough of a clean perspective, unadulterated by their culture, and a discerning eye should be able to see the Divine Feminine is much more prevalent on the Earth and throughout the Universe than the Divine Masculine.
Perhaps if we look around the Earth for clues and less at the written dogmas left to us by our patriarchal ancestors, we will find her.