The World Through My Eyes

Something to Remember

   Wed, April 16, 2008 - 4:52 PM
Or, more accurately, something I am trying to remember and embrace:

For I am the first and the last
I am the venerated and the despised
I am the prostitute and the saint
I am the wife and the virgin
I am the mother and the daughter
I am the arms of my mother
I am barren and my children are many
I am the married woman and the spinster
I am the woman who gives birth and she
who never procreated
I am the consolation for the pain of birth
I am the wife and the husband
And it was my man who created me
I am the mother of my father
I am the sister of my husband
And he is my rejected son
Always respect me
For I am the shameful and the magnificent one

- Hym to Isis, 3rd or 4th century BCE, discovered in Nag Hammadi



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Thu, April 17, 2008 - 9:33 AM
Wow! This is so beautiful Annika. I shared something very similar with some friends recently.
To just get on the computer and have this be one of the first things to catch my eye,
makes me feel I am on the right path, rocky as it seems right now. It is very empoweriing and
I thank you kindly for sharing. A true gift.
Thu, April 17, 2008 - 10:13 AM
I LIKE it.
:D:D