MULIER MULIERI DEAM?

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Where can we find the divine feminine in pop culture?

I have been thinking about this concept for a few days, and it led me into a labyrinthine exploration... and I am still not certain how to relay my ideas in this medium...

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In connection with this post, I was asked about female tricksters...

How about Grandmother Spider, Eris, Inanna, Isis/Aset, Athena, Baubo, Laverna, Penelope, Baba Yaga, Uzume, the Kitsune, Gezhizhwazh, Scheherezade, Gretel, Pipi Longstocking, Mae West, Lucille Ball, Harley Quinn, Morganna LaFey & many a faerie prankster... besides, one of the most common tropes for tricksters like Coyote, Loki, Bugs Bunny & Exu/Eleggua/Elegbarra is a sex change story ;-) ...not unlike shamans, who were often of a third gender, other than the male/female polarity

But this may be the proverbial smoking gun we were looking for...
http://re-visioning.blogspot.com/2010/10/female-trickster-post-modern-post.html?m=1

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and here's a podcast discussion, inspired by this post...
http://chickenmonkeyduck.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-21T18_43_42-07_00
It's probably best to forward the discussion to 8:40... it was a challenge to keep those drunken animals on topic

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while a friend & i were discussing the GnosticSophia-like aspects of PKD's VALIS, i was referred to this recently self-published text...
http://www.amazon.com/Children-Athena-The-New-Pantheons/dp/061581672X

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Working with Sophia always makes me think of this post, which I devoted to the Divine Feminine... that which PKD called VALIS (the feminine AI voice).

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This is a review of a published theory about one of the earliest extant copies of an ancient ritual for the divine feminine that is obviously a Christianized but much earlier Pagan ritual.

The Phoenix at the Fountain: Images of Women and Eternity in Lactantius's 'Carman de Ave Phoenice' and the Old English 'Phoenix'
http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1583&context=mff