When Then is Now and Now is Riding Home

 a few relatives 

 have a way of truthspeak 

to let the poison out

and set us free

lost track if it is their wound or mine

or if it really makes any difference

since everyone has it in one form or another

cuz we're all made from Her

and all life has memory

guessing depends
on wot One does

with this

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When Then is Now and Now is Riding Home 

grandson gathered 

1961's mixed blood babies 

within the secret lodge

gramma poured water 

with the way she knew

how to heal

do you know? do you know?

being born

with ancestral memories

remembering

within families dieing to forget 

do you feel? do you feel?

no apologies 

for running down genetic memory

of blood soaked earth's grief

cuz it's our own way of healing
and resilience of re-membering

do you see? do you see?

outside imaginary boarders

grateful some are still together

cuz our ghost

is on the outside looking in

do you see? do you see?

inside looking out 

of eggs that got shattered

see shells scattered

in colonial horrorcanes

do you see, do you feel ?

hydroplaning on skin 

or within the deep and vast

dispelling the castes 

of shadows lies 

do you know, do you know ?

being the living life ways

our ancestors gave

weaving resilience beauty ways

come riding 

on prayer waves tapestries 

thundering love

calling us home

will you come, will you come?

mother earth's  calling

us home

ride and spark with me

within the heart of storm's calm

Spirit Tree

setting us free
dancing us home

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Detail of Woody Crumbo’s oil on canvas mural for the Fort Sill Indian School, in “Crumbo Spirit Talk” at the Oklahoma History Center 

Mother Earth's Birthing

there was a night 

when her thundersong

became light sing across the sky

awakening every seen and unseen ancestor

from whence those present came 

her peace so deep and potent

for the sorrows of her children

she called upon all caregivers and spiritual midwives

to ride and carry the message 

to live in harmonious relation 

by the natural laws of creation

her love joy so vast and infinite

for her children and future generations

that thundering prayerwaves heart beat rhythms 

rained within Life's waters 

dancing with the elements of creation

giving healing now, and for future generations

north, south, east, west, above and below

riding with thundering heartsongs

pulse sing with Sun's firelight sparking 

within all Life's Children

for Mother Earth's butterfly birthing  

of compassionate metamorphing

~ * ~

There will come a time when illusions will try to lure 

Mother Earth ~ Father Sun's children 

away from our Earth Mother home. 

Stay with Her, she loves us, she is our starship butterfly, 

and the mystery egg of our creation. 

 A. M. 2014

Alis Itlatol 

Image of a Mural in Berkeley
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The Triple Aspects of the Egyptian Goddess Isis

ISIS

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I am not a scholar, Egyptian, nor expert in any way regarding Egyptian knowledge. I am however a woman, and in this form am inner and interconnected with feminine innerstanding. My interest here is to muse about this moment in time when the call for feminine energy and wisdom to rise, and the patriarchal war mongering profiteers waging war in the middle east, have chosen the name ISIS for the "terrorists" in this continuing drama of suffering. 

Since 9/11 there has been intentional looting and destruction to the ancient Egyptian knowledge, artifacts and wisdom. Is "oil" really what all this is about? I say nay. The following are some of my musings about Her, in the aspects of the Holy Trinity of the Egyptian Feminine Isis. All women know who she Is, for humanity and all life forms are born from the feminine Ma, Holy Mother. We all have names for Her.

In the beginning there was Isis, Oldest of the Old, who gave birth to the Sun, and from whence all Life arose. Her title was "Giver of Life".

Roman Lucius's Hymn says " Oh Thou Holy and savior of the human race".

It is said that she responds and speaks to those who recognize her as Holy Mother, Ma, Matter.  Isis is Nature, natural law, the parent of All aspects of Life, the sovereign of elements, the progeny of the cycles of time, the most exalted of deities.... the goddess of the dead, the nourisher of all life, manifested alone and in One form.....

Mut or Maat

Mother

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mut

* In her first aspect she is, Isis, Virgin, wearing the plumbs of Truth ~ innocence.

* In her second aspect she is Mother and wears the red and white crowns of two lands ~ as above so below ~ Life giver. Some say that Maat birthed Isis.

* In her third aspect she wears vulture feathers, and is the Crone of Death.

She has been depicted walking with a staff of the evergreen Sycamore Fig Tree and is associated with the Lotus. The Sycamore exudes a milky nectar and honied fruit. The wood of the Sycamore is used for caskets.

Nekhbet
Crone

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Nekhbet is the Vulture goddess, who eats the dead and crosses them over. She is the mother of both life and death. Vultures conceive Eggs that are fertilized by the Spirits of the Winds. Winds as in the song of the Spirit, the resonance and tonality of Life's energetic vibration. Nekhbet is also Goddess of the Moon.

The Three aspects of the Feminine are innerstood as Eternal Life, thus Isis is often shown with the Ankh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh#mediaviewer/File:Codex_Glazier_2.JPG  public domain

The Ankh is the Cross of Life or simply Life, representing the union of the feminine and masculine principles, and is also called the Key of Life. The Christians later kept the cross and omitted the circle, oval, ovum.

We as humans have expressed innerstanding and relationship with the feminine and masculine aspects of Creation, through the cultural matrixes we created. Therefore, there is one more Goddess am going to mention here:

Anuket the Goddess of the Nile River, water, and fertility is represented as having four arms, two arms that care for the masculine elements and two arms that care for the feminine elements, thus she is known as "the One", or balance and union. Her 'arms' were also in reference to the tributaries of the Nile River.
While she has had a variety of consorts throughout time, most notable is
Amun-Ra, the God Amun - of the Winds, and Ra - the Sun. Interestingly will note here that there are no images of Anuket, that i could find, of her image with four arms. I could ask "why" Anuket is a little known goddess, or spoken of as a "footnote" .... the why is that she is spoken of as "the One", and Amun referred to as "the hidden". Thousands of years ago our ancestors agreed to "hide" or keep hidden certain knowledge because they knew that nearly everything would be destroyed by the colonial patriarch and it's ideological matrix...thus all that was held sacred became the hidden, or the Mysteries, the Great Mystery.

~*~

 Mother Earth, the feminine "goddess" and her many forms, and names is within all of our many cultures worldwide. She is Changing Woman, change is the only constant of time, space, and form. Mother Earth will Birth, and in that Change, everything will change, we will change, and it is our choice to experience this as an opportunity to birth with Her.

We are within the Change of the Key of Life. We are in the last gasp of what was the old matrix of colonial violence. The Vulture is eating away at the old paradigm of "reality". The Crone brings everything to the simplest form of Seed or Egg. All worlds within worlds are in the Egg of Creation.

Where love's waters flow, 

the fire of love dances, 

the breath of life sings, 

and the forms of earth blossom. 

My musings come to an end, without knowing how to end the age of wars, without peace within ourselves. While we emerge with peace, I think of my son's college film graduate thesis...."Touching the Unknown", which was a potential comedy series about what people fear, i.e. death, the mysteries, etc. The first episode, included an interview with a transcendent man who was trying to explain how he could transform himself into pure energy. He said, "i'm just a tool, i'm just a tool...." might we be heartful about what we are "tools" of.

"Behind every pain is a doorway to healing, behind every loss is a lesson of deeper love, behind every light is a shadow.  Balance is knowing we all have these deep issues and making a choice to relearn the simple love of life starts with the "you" inside. There is a tiny part of the Creator inside all life - that is the "inner" voice we all have and the place we go to talk to Creator and renew our commitment to RESPECT ALL LIFE and Do NO HARM." 
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Blessings, Alis-Itlatol

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