07/09/2025
“The Mother Goddess was phased out / edited out / assimilated / shamed / burnt and torched. Deuteronomy 12:3 is a call to action,
“Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places”.
There has to be an unease within all women, manifesting as a nagging and a throbbing deep in the body, as we battle disassociation, amnesia and anxiety. We know something’s gone drastically wrong. No other species breaks its females the way humans do. Repairing the tear in the yoni-verse cannot be about retreating into aloneness. We must join the “collective screech of cathartic release,” demanding to know:
“What have you done to us?”
“And why?”
-Claire Dorey, excerpt from "Love is an Apple: Asherah and Eve, Roots Entwined" featured in our anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.
Art by Dee Mulrooney
