Nine Nights For The Mother Goddess
Tonight is the first night of Navratri, the Hindu festival in honor of the supreme goddess and her aspects. The nine-day festival is split into three sets of three nights. Each set is dedicated to the adoration of a different goddess; Durga for the first set, Lakshmi for the second set, and Saraswati for the third.
Durga: embodiment of feminine and creative energy
SS Sundaram, writing for DNA India, uses the coming of Navratri to talk about the importance of goddesses for our modern world.
“Mother Goddess has been prominent in cultures throughout history. But during the past two millennia, the female aspect of the Creator has been excluded by a world that has focused exclusively on the male dominated religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But lately the Goddess is reasserting Herself. She is telling humanity it is time to clean up our act. The survival of life as we know it depends upon our willingness to listen to Her and honor Her. To worship the Goddess is to honour the Earth and all the creatures.”
When we look at the recent fruits of faith without the goddess; threatened deaths for apostasy, a majority faith roaming the halls of power yet pleading persecution, and the media black-out of dissenting faith voices, it is clear we need the goddesses now more than ever.
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