In The Beginning:  Goddess Creation Myth

In the beginning was . . . She, the mother of all creation. Upon waking, she stirred, and as she opened her eyes, space and time came into existence. She yawned, and from her open mouth the cosmos came forth. She delighted in what she had done, and from the deep rumble of her laughter, stars exploded across the skies. She sighed, and her breath set planets spinning into orbit. To the rhythm of her hallowed heartbeat, she danced across the cosmos. As she twirled, the sparks from her holy feet ignited into fiery suns that blazed onto the heavens. From the fullness of her swollen breasts, the milk of the moons was formed.

Following the heat and passion of her creation, she squatted and gave birth to herself, her living body, Earth. Out of the primordial oceans of her earth womb, life was born as the sacred egg, symbol of infinite possibilities. The blessed egg incubated for millions of years, creating and re-creating itself, finally leaving the birth waters of its divine beginnings. For many more eons it wandered, nourished by its mother's body; at one with the pulse of creation it carried inside–the holy heartbeat, gift of its cosmic mother.

Life continued on . . . creating and re-creating itself, until one day, it awakened to the knowledge of its own existence. It recognized itself as she . . . the embodiment of divine creation, seed of the celestial ancestress, daughter of the first clan mother, woman, who births male and female from the holy grail of her womb, where all life begins as the sacred egg. (Continued)

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