{"id":2247,"date":"2019-07-18T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/starandsnake\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2019-07-08T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:42:23","slug":"the-black-goddess-nuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/starandsnake\/2019\/07\/the-black-goddess-nuit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Goddess Nuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Nuit<\/a>
Nut Egyptian Goddess from Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

I sing of the Black Goddess Nuit. I sing of the limitless velvet expanse of space, which is not empty, it is her body, spangled with stars. I sing of the dark and fertile loam of the earth. I sing of the smooth cool depth of the obsidian cave where we reach the most profound mystery. I sing of the Black Goddess Nuit: She creates, She sustains, She destroys, She redeems.<\/em><\/p>\n

Is it surprising to see the word \u201cblack\u201d to describe Nuit? She is the night sky. She was born of Nut, the Kemetic netjer loved by North African brown and black people. What other color would she be? <\/p>\n

Before you read another word of mine, go read this: White feminist Paganism and the colonization of Heaven and Earth<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The white ally has two jobs. The first is to make space for black and indigenous voices. Have you read the piece? I\u2019m going to talk about it and I encourage you to hear Ferguson\u2019s voice first.<\/p>\n

The second job of the white ally is to interact with other white people to build anti-racist community. Ferguson makes the sobering observation that white feminism fused the White Goddess with Mother Earth to create a Divine White Feminine.<\/p>\n

The Divine White Feminine. Let\u2019s sit with that for a minute.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re white I\u2019m going to assume you have signed on to be a white ally, you\u2019ve done your preliminary reading, and you are working on your own white fragility. If you haven\u2019t done your beginning work contesting racism, two of my Patheos colleagues have great primers to bring you up to speed. If you find yourself defensive while reading this I encourage you to do the exercises they suggest.<\/p>\n