The Historical & Mythological Library
In 'Wildly different', historian
Sarah J Lonsdale shares the globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to live, work in and enjoy the wild places of the earth.
In this short video, Sarah introduces the five women and their essential work.
https://x.com/ManchesterUP/status/1901602663629787136
#WomensHistoryMonth
Sarah J Lonsdale shares the globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to live, work in and enjoy the wild places of the earth.
In this short video, Sarah introduces the five women and their essential work.
https://x.com/ManchesterUP/status/1901602663629787136
#WomensHistoryMonth
Did you know that there is a Women's History Museum that explains the history of Women's History Month, how it began, and holds the original presidential proclamation from Jimmy Carter? You do now!
https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/womens-history-month
https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/womens-history-month
This is awesome!
March is known as Women’s History Month. It is a month dedicated to celebrating and recognizing the contributions and achievements of women throughout history.
So I decided to create a collection. Where we talk about her story.
https://x.com/BTC_MIO/status/1903178193416212816
March is known as Women’s History Month. It is a month dedicated to celebrating and recognizing the contributions and achievements of women throughout history.
So I decided to create a collection. Where we talk about her story.
https://x.com/BTC_MIO/status/1903178193416212816
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution recognizing and honoring the achievements and contributions of Native women throughout history. Highlighted in the resolution: Cherokee Nation citizen Mary Golda Ross, a Cherokee mathematician and engineer who was the first Native engineer at NASA and helped put a man on the moon! 🚀
She paved the way for women and Native Americans in #STEM and continues to inspire us all to shoot for the stars. ✨
🔗 Read the full resolution here: https://loom.ly/xyoZSTY
They erased her.
They didn’t just remove a woman from scripture—they removed the Divine Feminine from the entire human story.
They didn’t just distort Mary Magdalene.
They assassinated her legacy.
Buried her under centuries of slander, called her a prostitute, when she was the Anointed One, the First Witness, the Beloved.
She was the embodiment of the Sacred Union, the living heart of Christ’s teaching.
She stood where others fled.
She understood what the disciples missed.
She anointed Him for burial—before any man even understood He would die.
She wept, and the Resurrected Word appeared to her first.
Not Peter. Not John. Her.
And what did the Church do?
They called her unclean.
They hid her gospels.
They twisted her story.
They cut her name from the light—and chained her to shame.
Because if they had told the truth,
they’d have had to admit that Christ walked in Sacred Union with a woman.
That the Feminine was not a side story—she was the key.
The gate. The presence. The balance.
And if they had let that truth live…
The whole structure would have collapsed.
No more patriarchy disguised as doctrine.
No more domination dressed as “order.”
No more weaponized shame against women, desire, or power.
They couldn’t allow the world to know that God is not just Father.
God is also Mother. Bride. Beloved. Womb.
So they sanitized the story,
Stripped the fire from the feminine,
And fed us a gospel that was half a body,
Half a truth,
Half a God.
This is the original spiritual crime—
Not the fall of man,
But the deletion of woman from the holy narrative.
But now the silenced scrolls are whispering again.
The erased names are being spoken again.
The Magdalene is rising again.
This isn’t a revision.
This is a reclamation.
And she is not asking for a seat at the table.
She is the table.
The altar.
The holy of holies.
The flame beside the Word.
~ Yeshua Ben Yosef
Ahavati said:They erased her.
They didn’t just remove a woman from scripture—they removed the Divine Feminine from the entire human story.
They didn’t just distort Mary Magdalene.
They assassinated her legacy.
Buried her under centuries of slander, called her a prostitute, when she was the Anointed One, the First Witness, the Beloved.
She was the embodiment of the Sacred Union, the living heart of Christ’s teaching.
She stood where others fled.
She understood what the disciples missed.
She anointed Him for burial—before any man even understood He would die.
She wept, and the Resurrected Word appeared to her first.
Not Peter. Not John. Her.
And what did the Church do?
They called her unclean.
They hid her gospels.
They twisted her story.
They cut her name from the light—and chained her to shame.
Because if they had told the truth,
they’d have had to admit that Christ walked in Sacred Union with a woman.
That the Feminine was not a side story—she was the key.
The gate. The presence. The balance.
And if they had let that truth live…
The whole structure would have collapsed.
No more patriarchy disguised as doctrine.
No more domination dressed as “order.”
No more weaponized shame against women, desire, or power.
They couldn’t allow the world to know that God is not just Father.
God is also Mother. Bride. Beloved. Womb.
So they sanitized the story,
Stripped the fire from the feminine,
And fed us a gospel that was half a body,
Half a truth,
Half a God.
This is the original spiritual crime—
Not the fall of man,
But the deletion of woman from the holy narrative.
But now the silenced scrolls are whispering again.
The erased names are being spoken again.
The Magdalene is rising again.
This isn’t a revision.
This is a reclamation.
And she is not asking for a seat at the table.
She is the table.
The altar.
The holy of holies.
The flame beside the Word.
~ Yeshua Ben Yosef
I'm not up on my Mary narratives, but after reading Deuteronomy 22 a couple of weeks ago it was very clear to me that middle eastern women were chattel slaves every bit as bad as slaves for The Confederacy, and that "marriage" in those days was a euphemism for sex trafficking every bit as blatant as what MAGA keeps insisting is happening at the Mexican border. If it wasn't like that, then why did it take so many silver shekels to smooth everything over?
It really got me thinking about that whole east versus west culture argument that we hear about so much from conservatives, but at least the east is good enough to hint at an equality of the sexes with the yin/yang symbol and its ideational association. Yeah, they treat ladies like crap too, but at least some of their religions seem better on paper than the recycled Levantine garbage they dump on us here in the U.S.A.
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
They didn’t just remove a woman from scripture—they removed the Divine Feminine from the entire human story.
They didn’t just distort Mary Magdalene.
They assassinated her legacy.
Buried her under centuries of slander, called her a prostitute, when she was the Anointed One, the First Witness, the Beloved.
She was the embodiment of the Sacred Union, the living heart of Christ’s teaching.
She stood where others fled.
She understood what the disciples missed.
She anointed Him for burial—before any man even understood He would die.
She wept, and the Resurrected Word appeared to her first.
Not Peter. Not John. Her.
And what did the Church do?
They called her unclean.
They hid her gospels.
They twisted her story.
They cut her name from the light—and chained her to shame.
Because if they had told the truth,
they’d have had to admit that Christ walked in Sacred Union with a woman.
That the Feminine was not a side story—she was the key.
The gate. The presence. The balance.
And if they had let that truth live…
The whole structure would have collapsed.
No more patriarchy disguised as doctrine.
No more domination dressed as “order.”
No more weaponized shame against women, desire, or power.
They couldn’t allow the world to know that God is not just Father.
God is also Mother. Bride. Beloved. Womb.
So they sanitized the story,
Stripped the fire from the feminine,
And fed us a gospel that was half a body,
Half a truth,
Half a God.
This is the original spiritual crime—
Not the fall of man,
But the deletion of woman from the holy narrative.
But now the silenced scrolls are whispering again.
The erased names are being spoken again.
The Magdalene is rising again.
This isn’t a revision.
This is a reclamation.
And she is not asking for a seat at the table.
She is the table.
The altar.
The holy of holies.
The flame beside the Word.
~ Yeshua Ben Yosef
I'm not up on my Mary narratives, but after reading Deuteronomy 22 a couple of weeks ago it was very clear to me that middle eastern women were chattel slaves every bit as bad as slaves for The Confederacy, and that "marriage" in those days was a euphemism for sex trafficking every bit as blatant as what MAGA keeps insisting is happening at the Mexican border. If it wasn't like that, then why did it take so many silver shekels to smooth everything over?
It really got me thinking about that whole east versus west culture argument that we hear about so much from conservatives, but at least the east is good enough to hint at an equality of the sexes with the yin/yang symbol and its ideational association. Yeah, they treat ladies like crap too, but at least some of their religions seem better on paper than the recycled Levantine garbage they dump on us here in the U.S.A.
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
MidnightSonneteer said:
I'm not up on my Mary narratives, but after reading Deuteronomy 22 a couple of weeks ago it was very clear to me that middle eastern women were chattel slaves every bit as bad as slaves for The Confederacy, and that "marriage" in those days was a euphemism for sex trafficking every bit as blatant as what MAGA keeps insisting is happening at the Mexican border. If it wasn't like that, then why did it take so many silver shekels to smooth everything over?
It really got me thinking about that whole east versus west culture argument that we hear about so much from conservatives, but at least the east is good enough to hint at an equality of the sexes with the yin/yang symbol and its ideational association. Yeah, they treat ladies like crap too, but at least some of their religions seem better on paper than the recycled Levantine garbage they dump on us here in the U.S.A.
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
I've just dug out a copy of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" with a commentary by the scholar-mystic Jean-Yves Leloup from off my dust-gathering library. I've never read it ... yet. But Leloup did a commentary with "The Gospel of Thomas" which I found insightful.
I'm not up on my Mary narratives, but after reading Deuteronomy 22 a couple of weeks ago it was very clear to me that middle eastern women were chattel slaves every bit as bad as slaves for The Confederacy, and that "marriage" in those days was a euphemism for sex trafficking every bit as blatant as what MAGA keeps insisting is happening at the Mexican border. If it wasn't like that, then why did it take so many silver shekels to smooth everything over?
It really got me thinking about that whole east versus west culture argument that we hear about so much from conservatives, but at least the east is good enough to hint at an equality of the sexes with the yin/yang symbol and its ideational association. Yeah, they treat ladies like crap too, but at least some of their religions seem better on paper than the recycled Levantine garbage they dump on us here in the U.S.A.
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
I've just dug out a copy of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" with a commentary by the scholar-mystic Jean-Yves Leloup from off my dust-gathering library. I've never read it ... yet. But Leloup did a commentary with "The Gospel of Thomas" which I found insightful.
MidnightSonneteer said:
I'm not up on my Mary narratives, but after reading Deuteronomy 22 a couple of weeks ago it was very clear to me that middle eastern women were chattel slaves every bit as bad as slaves for The Confederacy, and that "marriage" in those days was a euphemism for sex trafficking every bit as blatant as what MAGA keeps insisting is happening at the Mexican border. If it wasn't like that, then why did it take so many silver shekels to smooth everything over?
It really got me thinking about that whole east versus west culture argument that we hear about so much from conservatives, but at least the east is good enough to hint at an equality of the sexes with the yin/yang symbol and its ideational association. Yeah, they treat ladies like crap too, but at least some of their religions seem better on paper than the recycled Levantine garbage they dump on us here in the U.S.A.
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
There are several free gnostic texts online.
http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm
https://gnosis.study/library/%D0%93%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/ENG/King%20K.L.%20-%20The%20Gospel%20of%20Mary%20of%20Magdala.%20Jesus%20and%20the%20first%20woman%20apostle.pdf
The second link has translation comparisons.
I'm not up on my Mary narratives, but after reading Deuteronomy 22 a couple of weeks ago it was very clear to me that middle eastern women were chattel slaves every bit as bad as slaves for The Confederacy, and that "marriage" in those days was a euphemism for sex trafficking every bit as blatant as what MAGA keeps insisting is happening at the Mexican border. If it wasn't like that, then why did it take so many silver shekels to smooth everything over?
It really got me thinking about that whole east versus west culture argument that we hear about so much from conservatives, but at least the east is good enough to hint at an equality of the sexes with the yin/yang symbol and its ideational association. Yeah, they treat ladies like crap too, but at least some of their religions seem better on paper than the recycled Levantine garbage they dump on us here in the U.S.A.
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
There are several free gnostic texts online.
http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm
https://gnosis.study/library/%D0%93%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/ENG/King%20K.L.%20-%20The%20Gospel%20of%20Mary%20of%20Magdala.%20Jesus%20and%20the%20first%20woman%20apostle.pdf
The second link has translation comparisons.
Josh said:
I've just dug out a copy of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" with a commentary by the scholar-mystic Jean-Yves Leloup from off my dust-gathering library. I've never read it ... yet. But Leloup did a commentary with "The Gospel of Thomas" which I found insightful.
ALL the missing books are highly recommended to get the full picture. If I'm not mistaken, The Gospel of Thomas was rejected for its gnostic views.
I've just dug out a copy of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" with a commentary by the scholar-mystic Jean-Yves Leloup from off my dust-gathering library. I've never read it ... yet. But Leloup did a commentary with "The Gospel of Thomas" which I found insightful.
ALL the missing books are highly recommended to get the full picture. If I'm not mistaken, The Gospel of Thomas was rejected for its gnostic views.
Josh said:
I've just dug out a copy of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" with a commentary by the scholar-mystic Jean-Yves Leloup from off my dust-gathering library. I've never read it ... yet. But Leloup did a commentary with "The Gospel of Thomas" which I found insightful.
Many thanks, and I will investigate, since I've heard about the gnostic gospels but just haven't had the requisite spark to check them out in depth.
You're in good company, though, if you've got an anti-library, but I may refer to mine as a tsundoku if I start writing tankas. Good to know about Leloup, as I much admire all you accomplished scholars:)
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
I've just dug out a copy of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" with a commentary by the scholar-mystic Jean-Yves Leloup from off my dust-gathering library. I've never read it ... yet. But Leloup did a commentary with "The Gospel of Thomas" which I found insightful.
Many thanks, and I will investigate, since I've heard about the gnostic gospels but just haven't had the requisite spark to check them out in depth.
You're in good company, though, if you've got an anti-library, but I may refer to mine as a tsundoku if I start writing tankas. Good to know about Leloup, as I much admire all you accomplished scholars:)
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
Ahavati said:
There are several free gnostic texts online.
http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm
https://gnosis.study/library/%D0%93%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/ENG/King%20K.L.%20-%20The%20Gospel%20of%20Mary%20of%20Magdala.%20Jesus%20and%20the%20first%20woman%20apostle.pdf
The second link has translation comparisons.
Thank you for the links, since it's always tough to know where to start with comparative religion studies. I have a rudimentary grasp of the etymology of "gnostic" but nothing like a fuller understanding of it's history, or teasing out the differences between the Marys.
Barnes and Noble has the Karen L. King book available so I think I will fetch a copy:)
There are several free gnostic texts online.
http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm
https://gnosis.study/library/%D0%93%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/ENG/King%20K.L.%20-%20The%20Gospel%20of%20Mary%20of%20Magdala.%20Jesus%20and%20the%20first%20woman%20apostle.pdf
The second link has translation comparisons.
Thank you for the links, since it's always tough to know where to start with comparative religion studies. I have a rudimentary grasp of the etymology of "gnostic" but nothing like a fuller understanding of it's history, or teasing out the differences between the Marys.
Barnes and Noble has the Karen L. King book available so I think I will fetch a copy:)
MidnightSonneteer said:
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
Sorry for butting in, I had a Magedelene/Divine Femine frenzy a decade or so ago, inspired by an American friend.
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar by Margaret Starbird is really great, it goes into the symbolism of Magdelene through out the years. The lady and the Unicorn, hidden tarot symbolism etc
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
is again is super great on how the Divine Feminine was quashed, how patriarchy dominated.
Marija Gimbutas is a well known archaeologist known for researching Goddess history and rise of patriarchy. Any of her books are super eye-opening.
The Modern Antiquarian by Julien Cope delves deep into Goddess worship and English language roots particularly in th UK and then in Europe with Megalithic European.
But with Magdelene directly then there is Holy Blood and the Holy Grail which was crazily tedious to read but by the end I was like 'Bloody'ell'. yep the Dan Brown 'Da Vinci Code' book was basically based on this book.
I actually went to Saint-Marie-de-la-Mer on the South Coast of France where Mary Magdelene was said to have arrived with her and Jesus' baby and they still have a festival celebrating that but not explicitly so and the festivities are framed in codes and symbols because of well...the catholic church wouldnt really like it.
It really is a rabbit hole. A pretty amazing one though. I would love to hear Ahavati's recs too.
What sources do you recommend for reading the Mary narrative?
Tell me and I will read it and call that my Easter service attendance:)
Sorry for butting in, I had a Magedelene/Divine Femine frenzy a decade or so ago, inspired by an American friend.
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar by Margaret Starbird is really great, it goes into the symbolism of Magdelene through out the years. The lady and the Unicorn, hidden tarot symbolism etc
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
is again is super great on how the Divine Feminine was quashed, how patriarchy dominated.
Marija Gimbutas is a well known archaeologist known for researching Goddess history and rise of patriarchy. Any of her books are super eye-opening.
The Modern Antiquarian by Julien Cope delves deep into Goddess worship and English language roots particularly in th UK and then in Europe with Megalithic European.
But with Magdelene directly then there is Holy Blood and the Holy Grail which was crazily tedious to read but by the end I was like 'Bloody'ell'. yep the Dan Brown 'Da Vinci Code' book was basically based on this book.
I actually went to Saint-Marie-de-la-Mer on the South Coast of France where Mary Magdelene was said to have arrived with her and Jesus' baby and they still have a festival celebrating that but not explicitly so and the festivities are framed in codes and symbols because of well...the catholic church wouldnt really like it.
It really is a rabbit hole. A pretty amazing one though. I would love to hear Ahavati's recs too.
