Men are half women: notes on ecofeminism

published on Signal House editions, October 2020

“..Beginning from the beginning, you only need to look up Gaia, (Gaea), the primordial Greek goddess of Earth, ‘the Mother of All’, and you will see that She has a thousand feminine names. In ancient Anatolia she was Cybele, in Babylon Anat, in Egypt Isis and Hathor, in Celtic Ireland Dana, in India Anapurma 'the provider'. Continents—Asia, Africa and Europe—were named after manifestations of the Goddess and every nation gave it’s territory the name of its own Mother Earth—Lybia, Lydia, Russia, Anatolia, Latium, Holland, China, Ionia, Akkad, Chaldea, Scotland (Scotia), Ireland (Eriu, Hera) were but a few. 

Planet Earth, Nature, appears throughout 30,000 years of ancient history as a female divinity, the Great Goddess, source of all human, animal and plant life. Art proves to be a great advantage in tracing this unintelligible evolution, and most importantly, in recognizing the lasting ethos of our ancestral Earth-based spirituality in the present day collective subconscious”