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Choosing a Kitchen Goddess
It is very ancient and powerful magick to have a goddess figure in your home. Some of the earliest human artifacts ever discovered include many domestic goddess statues. When we create an altar and house a goddess there, we are making a satisfying link with our earliest ancestors. Many of us have found that having a female figure in this place of honour just feels deeply right. (It’s difficult to even picture any of the great male religious figures bent over a cooking pot stirring away.) And, although goddess worship was officially squelched for centuries, scores of kitchen madonnas from cultures around the globe prove you just can’t keep a good goddess down.
Today, we can find or create special kitchen goddesses to be the focus for our altars. In fact, a good first step in creating your kitchen altar is choosing a goddess you wish to honour with it. Your kitchen altar becomes this deity’s home, as well as a place to honour who YOU are and what YOU do…
When you make a kitchen altar, you begin a special, personal, and very intimate relationship with your kitchen goddess. In some ways, the two of you will echo each other: it is important to choose a goddess who embodies traits and values that you desire or with whom you can identify.
There are hundreds of possible kitchen goddesses and reasons for choosing them. The only limit is your imagination. Perhaps you are a particularly creative, gourmet cook, or would like to be. How about a creativity goddess like Sarasvati or Seshat? Fire goddesses (Pele, Sekhmet) are an obvious choice, as are goddesses of the hearth like Hestia and Vesta. Earth goddesses like Gaia, grain goddesses like Demeter or Ceres, or goddesses of the harvest like Habondia would also work well. What about goddesses of baking bread like Chantico or Asherah? Corn Mother is another possibility, while Changing Woman could teach the lessons of transformation. Goddesses of abundance like Lakshmi would be appropriate, too. Maybe you want cooking to be fun and would prefer a playful goddess like Bast, or a goddess of healing and serenity like Kwan Yin. Prehistoric goddesses like the Venus of Lausell and the Venus of Willendorf are embodiments of the nurturing, bountiful earth. You might want to choose a goddess from your own culture or heritage. It might even be fun to honour the modern goddesses who make cooking less arduous for those of us who aren’t big on cooking: Mama Michelina, Sara Lee, Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima, and Lady Lipton could all have a place of honour in your kitchen. Just a thought…it’s a good idea to keep a fire extinguisher handy in your kitchen, especially when honouring a goddess of fire!
Source: Shayleah Greenwitch
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