The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/goddess)
Here is the lesson. Without positive action, comparative mythology is (at best) a dry academic amusement and (at worst) an exercise in colonialist cultural appropriation. Rather than taking from Hinduism and calling it Heathenry, I suggest that we learn from a closely related tradition that has much to teach us.
“Those stereotypically “masculine” qualities that I intuitively rejected as a young queer boy in the 1970’s, identifying instead with those espoused by strong female role models whose characters resonated with my own soul. Wonder Woman didn’t just want to “beat up the bad guy” (no matter how good she might look doing it!); she wanted to win hearts, minds, and souls.”
When friends leave her with a garden statue of the Virgin Mary, Sheri Barker has to explore her own relationship as a Witch to this vision of the divine feminine.
Alan D.D. introduces TWH’s readers to the following of María Lionza, the Venezuelan Queen of Spirits.