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Planet Soul
I Went Searching for the Sacred Feminine
The divine lives inside of us all. We just have to look for it.
Ever since I learned of the existence of a female form of God, I’ve dreamed of taking a pilgrimage to places where evidence of her had been found.
I imagined what it might feel like to stand in the presence of the 35,000-year-old Woman of Willendorf or to roam the land in the Dordogne region of France where the 25,000-year-old carving of the Venus of Laussel was discovered. Both of these, along with hundreds of other Paleolithic-era figurines, were found in areas spanning from southwestern France all the way to Siberia.
Virtually every figurine that’s been found from this time period is female, and many archeologists believe them to be some of the earliest indications of our ancestors’ spiritual practices. In other words, we were quite likely a culture that honored the feminine as sacred long before our male gods came roaring onto the scene.
In my imaginings, I contemplated what the air smelled like in these places. I wondered, too, about the intentions of our ancestors who created these artifacts, and if those dreams and ideas were somehow captured and held within these pieces of stone or the land itself.
