"The Church would have you believe I was a whore, but I tell you now that the church is the whore, for she would have you believe that woman is tainted"
- A'theshara Elunai

- May 26
- 3 min read

Let us speak of the rewriting of goddesses.
Let us speak of the holy women whose power was so untamed, so magnetic, so fucking unstoppable that the only way to control them was to shackle them in lies. To bury them beneath centuries of dogma and distortion. To carve them into caricatures of themselves so that no woman would dare rise in their image.
The demonization of powerful feminine archetypes is not just an echo of the past - it is a calculated distortion thread through centuries of control. Her name has changed across time, her form rewritten by trembling hands desperate to contain her, but her fire has never dimmed.
They call her sinner, temptress, seductress, destroyer, whore. They label her dangerous because she cannot be controlled.
Mary Magdalene was not a whore. She was a High Priestess. A teacher. A beloved. A carrier of the Christ codes of divine union, of sacred sexuality, and sovereign devotion. But the church - cloaked in fear - turned her into a parable of shame. Why? Because she held the keys to awakening through the body, through the womb, through the breath and the blood.
Lilith was not a demon. She was the first woman who said no. She was the first flame to burn outside the cage of obedience. And for that, she was cast out. Her story twisted, her fire feared. But she never went quietly. She is the defiant breath in every woman reclaiming her voice.
Isis was not merely Osiris's wife. She was the master alchemist, the weaver of resurrection, the breath of rebirth, the holy architect of star-lineage remembrance. She was torn apart by the hands of history, fragmented and commodified, but her voice is rising again in the remembering.
Sekhmet was not just a goddess of war. She is the eye of Ra, the Divine wrath of truth, the lioness who protects the sacred. They feared her because she could not be silenced. Her roar lives in the throat of every wild woman.
Inanna & Ishtar: The descent and rise. The cycle of death and rebirth. They were stripped of power in the underworld and rose again - not broken, but crowned. These ancient goddesses embody erotic power, cosmic sovereignty, and the knowing that to be divine is to descend and rise. They are not fractured; they are whole in their darkness and light.
Kali: Not the monster of death she's made out to be. Kali is the destroyer of illusion. The one who clears the false to make way for the holy. She dances on the chest of Shiva, not in cruelty, but in truth. She is the storm and the silence after. She is the sacred rage that ends cycles of suppression.
The Morrigan: The phantom queen. She is prophecy, war, sovereignty. The triple goddess in one breath - maiden, mother, crone. Feared because she saw the truth and spoke it. She guides the edge walkers and death priestesses.
Hel: Keeper of the underworld. Half flesh, half bone. Half life, half death. She is the truth we're told to fear - that endings are sacred, that rot births roots. They've hidden her in shadow, but she is the balance - the fierce mother of thresholds.
Shakti: The Power They Feared Most.
She was never just a goddess. She was the force. The current. The pulse. Shakti is the primordial power of the Universe, the living breath behind all divine feminine expression - the creator, the destroyer, the lover, the storm. She does not rule from a throne - she is the throne itself, the womb of all that is born.
Every tale that sought to chain a goddess was an attempt to siphon Shakti. They feared they could not own her.
They called her wild. Too much. Dangerous. But she is not danger - she is life in its rawest, most holy form.
You see her in Kali's tongue. In Parvati's spine. In Durga's lion-hearted roar. In Inanna's descent. In Lilith's defiance. In Mary Magdalene's sacred tears.
To name Shakti is to name the root.
It is to say: I remember the Source.
And I will not let you rewrite her into silence.
We do not worship Shakti.
We are her.
And we are done pretending to be anything less.
The Feminine Has Always Been Holy. They rewrote stories because they knew; a woman in her full power is a revolution. A woman in her fire is unstoppable. A woman who reclaims her voice, her blood, her body, her magic - births not just herself, but a new world.
And now, she rises.
She rises in you. In me. In us
Let them tremble. Let them call us wild, too much, too loud.
We will remember.
We will roar.
We will fucking burn.
Because we are the lineage of the Divine Fire Mothers - and we are done being rewritten.




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