Earth Medicine: A Revival of Sacred Cultures and Religions

Earth Medicine

By Nancy Oakes 

PART ONE

Humanity has crossed over to a new era, a time when human beings are reuniting with their inner power, and breaking the chains from the old paradigms of patriarchal mind control. We have again come out of the dark ages into the light, and have discovered a new respect for the old ways of holistic medicine: earth medicine. Therefore embracing the traditions and cultures of the Earth people. 

OPPRESSED CULTURES AND RELIGIONS

Heresy! The first known usage of the term in a legal context was in AD 380 by the Edict of Thessalonica of Theodosius which made Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire. Upon this declaration if the Orthodox Church found any hint of female divinity, or resistance to the new religious authority they at once found heresy. Persecution and death of Gnostics, pagans, witches, midwives, indigenous medicine people, shamans, or all earth people who worshipped the Creatress pursued. Those whose traditions, and ceremonies were a direct link to a spiritual connection to the earth, moon, sun, stars, fire, water, and air, were destined to be eliminated. Further other cultures and religions, including Hindu, Buddhist, Aztec, Inca, Hawaiian and Native American cultures were held in great suspicion. Therefore labeled pagan and heathen, and declared in violation of the church’s code of heresy. 

EARTH PEOPLE

GODDESSES, GNOSTICS, DRUIDS, PAGANS, WITCHES, SHAMANS

In antiquity, pre-Christian Europe, there was an indigenous people living all over this planet who worshipped gods and goddesses, nature, their ancestors, and held the Earth’s primal elements as sacred. Their traditions and ceremonies included astrology, mathematics, literature, arts, and music. The one thread that linked them was that they considered themselves to be direct descendants of many sacred gods, and goddesses. Their Goddesses were recorded as powerful women, warriors, Creatress of Earth, and humankind. The very words pagans, heathens, witch, and medicine people, have been tainted over the centuries by the Christian ideology. Misogyny has been characterized as a prominent feature of the mythologies of the ancient Christian world, as well as the reason for their various rules and regulations regarding the role of women in the church. In addition, many influential western philosophers have been described as misogynistic.

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