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mentality, that conceived of a heaven and hell, with the he corresponding
associations of good and evil, reward and punishment. And the hell of this wrathful
Father God was filled with unending sadistic torture and pervasive suffering.
Humanity then began to fear the darkness of death. Those who, during their lives,
were not saved by a religious conversion to the Father faced a death of eternal torture
and absolute finality. Their terror extended to the Dark Goddess of the Dark Moon,
who was now only the death-bringer and no longer the renewer. When the Goddess
became separated from her role in cyclical renewal, her third dark aspect became the
horrifying image of feminine evil who seduced, devoured, and brought finality to the
lives of human beings. The dark aspect of the goddess was then hated, persecuted,
suppressed, and cast out into the predawn of history and into the depths of the
unconscious.
Today the Dark Goddess, as the third aspect of the ancient Triple Goddess, represents
many of the rejected aspects of the trinity of feminine wholeness. the teachings of the
Dark Goddess of the Dark Moon are concerned with divination, magic, healing,
sacred sexuality, the nonphysical dimensions of being, and the mysteries of birth,
death, and regeneration. These dark moon teachings, now called pseudo-sciences,
have been rejected as legitimate areas of inquiry by modern religious and educational
institutions.
The shadow, according to Junian psychology, is the dark, rejected part of the psyche.
It consists of all those qualities that we, as influenced by the values of our culture, do
not feel are desirable or acceptable to express as part of our personalities. The shadow
contains what we do not like about ourselves, what we find threatening, shameful,
and inadequate, as well as certain valued and positive qualities that we are pressured
to repress and disown.
The inherent nature of the original Dark Goddess, who brought both death and
rebirth, has been repressed and denied for thousands of years. Her toxic releases,
festering in exile, have distorted and poisoned our perceptions of an intrinsic aspect
of the feminine nature. the Dark Goddess was then conceptualized as malefic, and her
teachings concerning the dark, sex, and death were distorted. Our mythical literature
abounds with images of the Dark Goddess as feminine evil. She was feared as the
Fates who, at the moment of our birth, determine the time of our death, as Nemesis,
the Goddess of Judgment and swift retribution; as the Furies, who will hound a man
to madness and death, medea, who killed her children; Circe, who transformed men
into pigs; Medusa, who turned them to stone; the Lamia, who sucked their blood;
Lilith, who seduced them in order to breed demons; and Hekate, Queen of the
Witches, who snatched them into the Underworld." (Ibid, 43-44). In popular culture,
there is no better representation of the Dark Goddess than the Alien mother who