We are Gift of Tiamat – our Goddess Mother supernova. Out of her stardust we are born. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and trace elements. We are Gift of Tiamat – out of her stardust we are born[i].

“Tiamat” is the name that Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme give to the ancestral star out of whom our Sun and Her planets were born. All the complex elements that are now within our bodies and throughout Earth were created by this Grandmother supernova. They named Her ‘Tiamat’ in their book, The Universe Story. Thomas Berry has said that in the 14 billion year history of the universe, the event that carries the greatest spiritual significance of all is the supernova[ii]. The Mother of our Solar system is praised and remembered by the name “Tiamat” in traditional PaGaian Winter Solstice ceremony when the ceremonial fire is lit.

Winter Solstice is the Season for remembering our Cosmic lineage, our Origins.

We are Gift of Tiamat – out of her stardust we are born.

Some ceremonial rites are offered here: Winter Solstice, Chapter 7, PaGaian Cosmology, Chapter 9, A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.

and Tiamat Ritual, The Great Story

NOTES:

[i] This is largely the composition of “The Tiamat Song” by Connie Barlow, Green Space, Green Time, p.83, for which Connie also provides music on p.302.

[ii] Brian Swimme, Cosmogenesis, p.287.

For a PaGaian Winter Solstice Meditation:

Winter Solstice/Yule
Meditation:
$2.80

(Track 5 and 6, CD 1 of PaGaian Cosmology Meditations)