This is an edited recording of a radio program, from a twelve part series named Re-membering the Great Mother, authored and put to air by Glenys Livingstone in 1994, for 2BLU-FM 89.1, community radio in the Blue Mountains, Australia.

I created this radio series after a personal shattering and underworld journey, as I re-created myself and embarked more fully on the path of Goddess. In this series, I have used the terms “Virgin”, “Mother”, and “Crone”, to speak of the three qualities/aspects of Goddess/Dea, which may not be understood in these times, and which I have since re-storied in my work over the years, described in my books, and also re-named as the “Urge to Be”/She Who Will Be, the “Place of Being”/She Who Is, and “She who Creates the Space to Be”/She Who Returns Us to All, respectively. I have come to understand these qualities as resonant with the three qualities of Cosmogenesis as described by Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme: characteristic of a triplicity that runs through every part of the universe, as author Caitlin Matthews describes, and identified by Celtic peoples as the Triskele.

I apologize for the sound quality of some of the recording; I was able to insert better recordings of the music segments, but I lacked the skills required to improve the sound quality of my speaking, in the earlier parts. The later interview is much clearer however. I find that decreasing the volume helps.

Notes:

All of the sponsorship advertisements have been edited out, and also most of the music, for copyright reasons mostly, though some remnants remain for artistic purpose. Those remnants are a brief excerpts of the following:

Hymn to Her by The Pretenders.

Courtyard Lullaby and Between the Shadows by Loreena McKennitt.

Gentle Sorrow by Sky.

Changing Woman and Way of the Woman by The Gaia Choir.

I retained most of the interview with the late thea Gaia (then known as thea Rainbow), because it is a very special and unique documentation of thea speaking. She was a radical wise woman, a foremother, and this interview gives some herstory of import. More story about thea, as well as my connection with her, may be found here: https://pagaian.org/2016/07/04/thea-gaia-nee-dorothy-ivy-wacker-feminist-foremother-and-a-great-ponderer-by-glenys-peacock/ 

References for most of the text may now be found in books that I have since authored: the first one being PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion (NE: iUniverse, 2005), which was an outcome of my doctoral work completed in 2002 at the University of Western Sydney, and the second book being A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony (Bergen: Girl God Books, 2023), which is a documentation of the emergent poetic ceremonial process practiced over decades.

There are more edited programs from this radio series by Glenys Livingstone posted at Return to Mago E-Magazine

Image credits:

The Birth Goddess of Catal Huyuk (Asia Minor 7000 B.C.E.), Hallie Iglehart Austen, The Heart of the Goddess (Berkeley: Wingbow, 1990), 21.

Ixchel 800 C.E. Central America. Hallie Iglehart Austen, The Heart of the Goddess (Berkeley: Wingbow, 1990), 10