Date: 2006-10-22 23:36 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

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Date: 2006-02-24 19:29 Subject: What does the new journal name mean? Security: Public

A fundamental difference in the concept of worship is important to note: In the Temples of the old ways people would go to the temple TO BE WORSHIPPED not to worship. Women would go to the temple to serve the Goddess to embody Her, to represent Her, to be worshipped as Her. Women would spend a day, or a week, or a year serving at the Temple as a priestess, as a sacred Prostitute, as a whore in service to the Goddess. There they would be worshipped as the incarnation of the Goddess, as The Goddess Herself.

Men would come to Her Temple TO BE WORSHIPPED. Men would be welcomed and served by the Priestesses and men would represent the divine male principal, the Horned One, the Sacred Bull, The God. Men would come to the temple to give their love and passion to The Goddess, and would receive the passion, love, and affection of The Goddess.

But some three millennia ago there came monotheists who refused Her Worship preferring instead to be diminished in body and spirit. They called Her, "The Whore of Babylon, who leads men into fornication." They called our sacred sexuality "sin," and cast shame on Her sacred Priestesses. They held up a "virgin" as the ideal that women should imitate instead of the sacred Goddess that they had always held as the most sacred image of Woman. This is essentially the state of things in the modern world.
(From Ishtar Temple.)
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Date: 2006-02-24 15:20 Subject: Welcome Security: Public

Hello and welcome.

My name is xdawnfirex. This is my journal.

I have chosen this name in honor of the goddess Ishtar, who spoke to my soul even when I was a small child. Look, I will tell you the story.

I am a writer; I have always been a writer. Even as a child I would write stories in my little notebooks of faraway places and girls who I could never be. And my favorite two subjects when I was a child were a set of twins, to whom I gave the names Astar and Ishtar. I eventually stopped writing about them and moved on to bigger and better things (fanfic, squee!) but I never forgot my twins.

So imagine my surprise when I grew up and the idea came to me one day that I should search the Internet for the names of my twins... just for grins and googles giggles, you understand.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I didn't make them up.

So it is my firm belief that Ishtar claimed me when I was a child. She who is the Shining One, Light of the World, the Lady of Passion and Desire, the Great Lover and Glad-Eyed Lady, and whose enemies called her the Whore of Babylon; she marked me as her own. I am hers.

Now... don't get the impression that I'm going to be spiritual and ethereal in this journal. I'm not. I'm still the same person I always was. It just happens that my eyes have been opened, and I felt the need to explain the change in me. So deal with it. (smile)

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