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" As Hera crowned the youngest winner, the girl addressed the crowd:
I am the new moon, swelling with magic, pure in my maidenhood, ever growing stronger. The second winner spoke:
I am the full moon, complete in my powers, making people with my rhythms, bathing them in light.
The third said: I am the waning moon, easing into peace, knowing all that went before, I am the wise one. "
― Charlene Spretnak , Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths
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" He also noted, in explaining his methodology for the workshop, that when he had reflected and meditated on the pre-Hellenic myths until he 'became filled with a myth', the ways in which he thought about natural phenomena and even the entire universe were qualitatively different from the perceptions that woud have arisen if he had been immersed in, say, the patriarchal, industrialized, competitive, Victorian world that was Darwin's frame of reference. Swimme concluded that the myth's have a very deep biological basis and that by allowing ourselves to be filled with a myth, the universe itself is altered because our relationship to the universe is altered in a very real sense. "
― Charlene Spretnak , Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths