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Shamanism. The Honey Tree | Hearth Moon Rising's blog. Cybele, Rome 50 b.c.e.photo Marshall Astor This week’s goddess is Cybele (pronounced kye-bell), whose sacred tree is the pine. Cybele is the earth mother goddess of what is now western Turkey, who had a popular and longstanding cult that eventually spread to Rome. She had a lover named Attis, who was also her grandson, whom she loved very much, and she showered him with gifts and attention. Despite the pampered treatment he enjoyed, Attis eventually became enamored of a nymph, and he could not keep the liaison a secret from Cybele.
She was furious, and she tormented him until in madness he tore his genitals from his body. Attis died from his wound under a pine tree. The Turkish Pine is renowned for its role in production of a type of honey. At the opening of Cybele’s spring ceremony in Rome, a pine branch was carried into the city to represent Attis. From Oskar Seyffert’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities From Robert Graves’ The White Goddess Stand of Turkish Pinephoto Sten Sources.
DMT. Spirit & earth. Pagan. Facebook. Culture. Charlyflower.wix. One of the myriad spin-offs of having lost the matriarchal world is that men and women have become hypnotized by their own physical image. The Aboriginal people of Australia see western women as one lipstick short of a make-up bag in the way that they obsess about their physical appearance. Beauty, to the Aboriginal people, is about an inner state – it represents energy that is balanced, pure, and radiant. And when you have that, it radiates outward to the world for all to see.
The modern version of beauty has completely passed me by – I’ve never understood it. When I look at many so-called “beautiful” women, I find little to rave about: when the outer glitter isn’t matched by some modicum of gold underneath, the outer beauty counts for nothing – in my view. A question that has puzzled me for many years is this: who created the beauty myth? And was it born of women? There is an antidote.