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Festivals of Light in the Dark
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Donna Henes
A common theme of Winter Solstice ceremonies everywhere is the burning of fires to symbolically re-kindle the dwindling sun. People gather together to cheer on the ascendancy of the light, the victory of the very forces of life. The Hindu Festival of Lights, Divali, The Festival of Light, comes about six weeks before the Winter…
The Sun is Born
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Donna Henes
It is from the state of original chaos, the elemental ether, the black void — The Great Uterine Darkness — that the old creatrix goddesses are said to have brought forth all that is. That the world started with the sacred spark of creative potential contained within the primordial womb, is one of humanity’s oldest…
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