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Kali is the Hindu counterpart of the ferocious and sensual Canaanite goddess Anath, (part of a similar
trinity with Ashera and Astarte) who is also described with ‗attached heads to her back, girded hands to
her waist‘.
In ancient Germany, marijuana was used in association with Freya, the slightly tamer Kali-like goddess of
Love and Death.
It is generally accepted that it was the horseback-riding Scythians who spread the combination of
cannabis and goddess worship throughout much of the ancient world.
… The Amazon-like Scythian women fought alongside their warrior mates, and that these "Hell's Angels"
of the ancient world were known to have used cannabis in funeral rites, doing so in veneration of their
own variation of the Goddess Mother of Life and Death, Rhea Krona.
Showing cannabis' strong ties with Scythian mythology, Rhea Krona came to reap her children in death
with the scythe, an agricultural tool named for its Scythian origin, and originally designed for harvesting
cannabis. This scythe image has survived through patriarchal times and into our modern day, with both
Father Time and the Grim Reaper still carrying Rhea Krona's ancient hemp-harvesting tool.
The Tree of Life …In a cave where an ancient urn was found that had been used by the Scythians for
burning marijuana, there was also a massive felt rug, which measured 5 by 7 meters. The carpet had a
border frieze with a repeated pattern of a horseman approaching the Great Goddess, who holds the Tree of
Life in one hand and raises the other in welcome / blessing.
Imagery of the Goddess and the Tree of Life is also found amongst other cultures with whom the
Scythians came into contact. …Remember that the ancient Canaanites and also Hebrews paid particular
reverence to the Near Eastern Goddess Ashera, whose cult was particularly focused around the use of
marijuana.
According to the Bible itself, the ancient worshippers of Ashera included wise King Solomon and other
biblical kings, as well as their wives and the daughters of Jerusalem. The Old Testament prophets often
chastised them for ‗offering up incense‘ to the Queen of Heaven.
Like the imagery on the Scythian carpet, icons dedicated to Ashera also have depictions of a ‗sacredtree‘,
most likely a reference to the cannabis that her followers grew and revered, using it as a sacrament,
as a food and oil source, and also using the fibres in ritual weavings.
Among her other titles, Ashera was known as the ‗Goddess of the Tree of Life‘, the ‗Divine Lady of
Eden‘ and the ‗Lady of the Serpent‘. Ashera was often depicted as a woman holding one or more serpents
in her hands. It was Ashera's serpent who advised Eve to disobey the male god's command not to partake
of the sacred tree.
The historical record shows that the Old Testament version of the myth of Eve, the serpent and the sacred
tree was concocted as propaganda against pre-existing Goddess cults.
Originally, the outcome of the Eden myth was not tragic, but triumphant. The serpent brought wisdom,
and after the magic fruit was eaten, Adam himself became a god. What was originally involved was
probably a psychedelic sacrament, like the Elusian festival in Athens, in which the worshipper ate certain
hallucinogenic foods and became one with the ‗Mother Goddess Demeter‘.
Like the Tree of Life, the Tree of Knowledge was a symbol associated with the Goddess. The rites
associated with her worship were designed to induce a consciousness open to the revelation of divine or
mystical truths. In these rites cannabis and other magical plants were used, and women officiated as
priestesses.
Roman Catholic Persecution …In early Christian times, the holy cannabis oil was ingested and used by
many Gnostic Christian sects, in honour of the Queen of Heaven.
With the rise of one of the more harshly ascetic and anti-female Christian sects in Rome, and the
subsequent development of the Roman Catholic Church, such groups were forced out of existence, along
with most pagan religions and the cult of the Great Mother.
The new Church of Rome followed their Judaic predecessors in naming Eve (the representative of all
women) the ‗Mother of Sin‘, as well as demonizing magical plants.