![]() Indeed, Hestia will have a crucial role, in the household, called “the navel”, which is related to the prominent navel of a pregnant woman, during the seventh month of her pregnancy and at the moment when the umbilical cord is cut until it falls: Hestia, dedicated to virginity, occupies the master place of fertilisation, her place of residence being in this domestic and then public, civic and religious navel. Zeus grants his sister’s dearest wish and in return grants her a central place in domestic and civic duties and tasks. Refusing the pressing advances of Poseidon and Apollo, she asks Zeus to let her decide and control her life by remaining solitary and chaste. Hestia is therefore the Goddess of passages and thresholds, opening and closing, as the one who ends the year with the Wise Woman and begins the new year with the Midwife. And in the domestic sphere, at meals, she is the first one to be honoured by invoking her and offering her the sweet wine at the beginning and end of the meal. ![]() She is always served first at sacrifices or banquets. She thus remained longer in her father’s entrails.Īs the eldest of her siblings, she is highly respected and revered by her brothers and sisters. She was also the last to be spat out by him, after having absorbed the vomiting potion that Zeus made him swallow. So why and how do we link the Goddess Hestia to these two Archetypes that close and open the year?įirst daughter of the Titans, Cronos and Rhea, the goddess Hestia was the first to be swallowed by her father at birth. However, Hestia is far from being a less important Goddess, on the contrary, she is at the heart of winter, as well as at the heart of domestic, civil and religious life. Hecate is, among them, a Goddess, who maintains this bridge between light and shadow, between the underground and the earth.īut for our rendez-vous, I have chosen to talk to you about a lesser known Goddess, one who is more in the background compared to other famous divinities. Many divinities can be assimilated to these two Archetypes to accompany us on the path of winter while maintaining the flame that will know how to guide us, enlighten us and keep us warm. In the middle of winter, the month of January is a bridge that allows us to sweep away and erase the old of the past year by entering the new year with a blank page that opens in front of us, leaving us master of what we will write on it… The winter season falls in the line of two female archetypes, explored with Alexandra Fryda Marty of Moonsistersparis: the Wise Woman and the Midwife, also known as the Doula, from the ancient Greek, the slave confidante of the housewife, who took care of her and surrounded her with solicitude when she was pregnant and about to give birth.
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