Ceremonial space:
Smoke, rattle, drum, 4 directions, above, below, centre.
The Grandmothers, bloodlines and the vibrant and well ancient ones.
Bowls menstrual blood (2), breasts (2), feet (2), ash, flowers, chocolate, coloured pen, copal, sage.
Duration: 2.5 hrs
'The Great Nurturer/ Comforter'
There are two of me yet I am one, so I shall call us WE.
WE have remained loyal and obedient to matter, our mothership.
WE sense directly through sole (soul), by making contact with ‘other’ – we know, intrinsically, our interdependence.
WE stand upon our ancestors, our brothers and sisters, the ones that went before and those yet to come.
WE welcome Whatever There Is, as we simply know that this is The Only Way.
Our direct and yet unspoken relationship to Mother is sustained by continuously prostrating every inch of ourselves, by facing downwards - we cannot forget the roots of our belonging. WE know our origin.
WE listen to her deep primordial currents of magic, embedded down so deep, absolutely, real. Held In earth since before time, where the dragon spine and red serpent rest.
WE are the seat of awareness entwined enmeshed flowing through, we feel every crevice, fold, surface, edge – the textures of the wet, the dry, the embrace and the unforgiving.
WE meet these in every breath, at every turn, climb and descent, with no thought - we add no meaning – we simply meet. In this there is sense. Things make sense.
WE carry everything willingly.
WE are forever attuned to the Great Body of Matter Mattering existence Abundantly in soft chaotic curls and entanglements.
WE are her children, we give of ourselves completely and in so doing all is given back.
We call ‘The head’, our distant cousin – to bow down and join our gathering.
(feet speak)
“The opposite of life is not death. The opposite of life is deathlessness.” — Jane Caputi
My guest today is Jane Caputi, a professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Caputi’s primary research is in contemporary American cultural studies, including pop culture, gender and violence, and eco-feminism. She is the author of many articles and four books, including The Age of Sex Crime; Gossips, Gorgons, and Crones: The Fates of the Earth; and Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture.
Her most recent work is Call Your Mutha: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene, which does fierce and mythic battle against the techno-hegemony of The Age of Man. In our conversation today, we explore the roots of patriarchy from a mythic lens, we illuminate startling perspectives on ancient stories, from Gilgamesh to the Garden of Eden, and we wonder what might it take for civilization to come back into right relationship with the life force of the Earth Mother, lest she turn away, forever.
And after the blood dries - the painting is offered to the fire - feeding the fire/ the ancestors/ the Grandmothers.
Giving Back.
Feeding the Green, as Jane Caputi speaks of.
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