Female Shamanism
Origins of the Goddess cycle
The word “God” or “Goddess” can be traced back to a word that means “spirit”, as in the spirit that dwells in a burial mound, or “one who is invoked”. The word did not originally refer to a creator. Goddess worship originated in ancestor worship, which is an extension of communion with the dead.
The Goddess cycle is a very old way of responding to natural spirit phenomena. It is a form of female shamanism. Shamanic practices, which are sometimes more broadly labeled as a category of animistic spiritism, are practiced on every continent of the world. .
