The Queen of Heaven, Mother of All the Gods, Creatrix of the Universe, was worshipped and celebrated for tens of thousands of years as the primary deity. Sex was a joy and a celebration in antiquity and people loved life, taking great enjoyment from nature and from sexuality. It only changed as male gods ascended to primacy with the concept of sin and denigration of all aspects of the feminine.

In this edifice the images you are about to view represent just a few of the forms of the Great Goddess predating the creation of the Gods. Cross the threshold and enter the presence of the Mystery...

"Venus" of Willendorf

Mother Goddess of Laussel

7800 year-old statue of Cybele (Kubaba), giving birth to the God

The "Sleeping Goddess" of Malta

Winged Isis, Mother-Goddess of Egypt

Atana Potiniya, the Idaean Mother of Crete, 16th cent. BCE

A golden pendant of Anat (Astarte) from Ras Shamra, 13th cent. BCE

Demeter (Ceres), celebrated in the Mysteries of Eleusis

Hera, a Greek image

Athena, with her Gorgon shield

Aphrodite (Venus), Goddess of Love: Greek, 3rd cent. BCE

Cybele holding the tympanum... she was celebrated as Rhea in Greece.

Cybele, seated to the left of Hecate

Roman Altar from Asia Minor, end of 3rd C.

Cybele, Roman statue from National Museum at Naples

A gemstone carving showing Cybele as the Virgin, riding the celestial Lion

Cybele, Mother of the Gods

The silver lanx of Parabiago

Vatican Phrygianum displayed on a sesterce

Diana Lucifera (Diana Lucina), Roman

XV - Eleusinian Mysteries: Triptolemos/Iacchos between Demeter and Kore

Kali, a Mother Goddess of India, bronze, 12th cent. CE

Mary, 'Mother Of God', 'Queen Of Heaven'

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