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Message:: [QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 7930249, member: 110226"]Thank you all for your wonderful coins and comments. On a somewhat different track, I have just started reading Graves' The White Goddess. a lengthy series of essays on the role of the goddess in cultures from ancient times, through the middle ages and beyond.  This is not an easy book to read, but it does provide insights on how human civilization evolved from Neolithic times through the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, in which patriarchy supplants matriarchy in religion, and how this is reflected in literature and poetry. Here's a short excerpt. "Skelton [a British poet, ca. 1495] in his Garland of Laurell thus describes the Triple Goddess in her three characters as Goddess of the Sky, Earth and Underworld: <blockquote>                       Diana in the leaves of green,                       Luna that so bright doth sheen,                           Persephone in Hell. </blockquote>As Goddess of the Underworld she was concerned with Birth, Procreation and Death.  As Goddess of the Earth she was concerned with the three seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter: she animated trees and plants and ruled all living creatures.  As Goddess of the Sky she was the Moon, in her three phases of New Moon, Full Moon and Waning Moon.  This explains why from a triad she was so often enlarged to an ennead."[/QUOTE]