Festival of Santa Sara, Sara-Kali, in Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer in France

by Guest Author Yeshe Matthews Yeshe Meryemana Matthews Robles is Priestess & Sibyl of Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling, the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple. Today was the Festival of Santa Sara, Sara-Kali, in Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer, marking the 90th anniversary of this particular devotional event. The power of the annual ritual was as strong as ever, but some […]

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No True Aloha ʻāina without Rematriation — the Restoration of Women’s Role in Land Stewardship

Guest Author Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp is a Kanaka Maoli & Filipino indigenous researcher In Hawaiʻi, women were not merely companions to power — they were power. Only women could truly legitimize the aliʻi ʻai ʻāina, the ruling chiefs, because they embodied the pilina (sacred connection) between ancestors and descendants, between pō (night, origin) and ao […]

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Max Dashu and the Goddess Veiled Course

How reverence for the female Divine survived theological coups, icon-smashers, and patriarchal / colonial regimes. The Suppressed Histories Archives uncovers the realities of women’s lives, internationally and across time, asking questions abbout mother-right, female spheres of power, and about patriarchy and slavery, conquest and aboriginality. About Indigenous philosophies—and the historical chemistry of their repression, and […]

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