Attunement of the Soul as Black Great Mother worship worldwide: Thom Cavalli and Han Marie Stiekema: Womb-Tomb alchemical Philosopher Stone

The Gate of this Mother Body
is the Root of Heaven and Earth
Tao Te Ching 6

I am very different from others
because I live of drinking and eating
from the Mother
Tao Te Ching 20 Mother China - 10 websites

Thom Cavalli wrote book on Egyptian alchemy and Jungian mythology

Interview with him.

Matzu Black Mother festival in China The priests tried to Whitewash her.

Just as the Nile Alchemy is the Mud that rises and flows with the water of Great Mother Earth as resonance of the Lunar psychic consciousness of Nuit - the secret source of the Sun is formless awareness as black - psychic reverse time energy

So too in China is the Great Mother black.

The first reason why Ximangmu [Queen Mother of the West; Mu means “mother,” and Wang, “sovereign.”] is so incredibly important is that She embodies the Primordial Mother of China. She can be considered the "materialisation" of the Cosmic Egg. Secondly, equally important, is the fact that there can be no doubt about the link She has with Kybele, the ancient Mother of Anatolia. If this indeed is true, then my thesis about the origination of the Mother and Her successors towards the East (Xiwangmu, Kali) and the West (Kybele, Isis, the Black Madonna) cannot be denied anymore. They are all manifestations of ONE underlying Mother "archetype". Everything is born out of one Cosmic Mother!

 Another phenomenon supports the presumption that even Chinese Dynasties were somehow linked to ancient times, where the rulers were God/Kings in the name of the Great Mother. The former being "Vegetation Gods" [Osiris] who had to (symbolically) die every autumn in order to become reborn in spring, thus guaranteeing the harvest e.g. the optimal wellbeing of the people

 The final "proof" is provided by the innumerous Kala (KalaMaka, Mahakala) faces in the temple. They are generally known as the "God of time" or guardians. However this a very late (patriarchal) interpretation. In fact Kala ("The Black One") is a direct memory of the Dark! Cosmic Womb. Kala therefore is equal to the Original Great Mother, coming from Sumeria, through the Harappa culture e.g. pre-Hindu times.

 Han Marie Stiekema

Han Marie Stiekema has amazing photos of the Black Madonna and Great Mother worship in China.

  Two of them are the "Vessel of Abundance" and the Lotus. The former - corresponding with the Grail! - is universal and can be found in almost all cultures. (LINK: Istanbul Cemetary). The Lotus, symbol of the Cosmic Womb - is more specific for Asia. PS. The third symbol is the Shell/Womb.

 What is "matriarchal" about this image is the big flower at the bottom. It symbolized the Womb. She is giving birth to Her Sons (the cubes) with the hope that they would become Enlightened rulers (flames) ("chakravartins"). This symbol can be seen on every (patriarchal) Tibetan Buddhist temple, however, without Womb!

Han Marine Stiekema

"Womb," the orgiastic religious festival of Aphrodite in Argos,

 From Barbara Walker's Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

Paul Goldin points out that the Chinese commonly used wang “to denote spirits of any kind,” and numinous power. He makes a convincing case for translating the name of the goddess as “Spirit-Mother of the West.” [Goldin, 83-85]

documented back to the Shang Dynasty!

 “If we make offering to the Eastern Mother and Western Mother there will be approval.”

 This is the same as Apophis in Egypt - the secret of the front and back channels of the Small Universe is the setting of the West and East Sun Rising - with the reversal of  yin and yang - from 11 am to 1 pm and 11 pm to 1 am is based on the reversal of the lunar and solar energy in music harmonics of Perfect Fifth and Perfect Fourth. The Sun goes into the Darkness as the secret formless awareness.

Suzanne Cahill, an authority on Xi Wangmu, places her as one of several ancient “mu divinities” of the directions, “mothers” who are connected to the sun and moon, or to their paths through the heavens. She notes that the widespread tiger images on Shang bronze offerings vessels may have been associated with the western mu deity, an association of tiger and west that goes back to the neolithic. [Cahill, 12-13] The tomb art of this province shows the goddess of transcendence seated in majesty on a dragon and tiger throne. [Liu, 40-3] This magical pair goes back to the Banpo neolithic, circa 5000 BCE, where they flank a burial at Xishuipo,  Henan. [Rawson, 244] Tiger and dragon represented yin and yang before the familiar Tai Ji symbol came into use during the middle ages.

 If you really want to understand Secret of the Golden Flower, study the book "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" translated by Charles Luk.

  until the “Inner Chapters” of the Zhuang Zi, circa 300 BCE. This early Taoist text casts her as a woman who attained the Tao [Feng, 125]:

Xi Wang Mu attained it and took her seat on Shao Guang mountain.
No one knows her beginning and no one knows her end.

 Xi Wangmu often appears on circular bronze mirrors whose backs are filled with concentric panels swirling with cloud patterns and thunder signs. She is flanked by the tiger and dragon

 Canaan, however, would again further fertilize the Mediterranean and beyond by the Goddesses Europa and Aphrodite, both manifestations of the old Mother Astarte. Accounts tell us that Europa, a Goddess of Byblos, now Libanon, was playing on the beach, together with some of her girlfriends. A beautiful white bull raised from the sea, inviting her to ride him. Once that happened the bull - who turned out to be the God Zeus - swam away, direction Crete. There he raped her. Europa then gave birth to Minos, the later legendary king of Crete. More likely is, that this story is the result of a "patriarchal inversion". Goddesses riding the bull was a common religious symbol, going back to the time of the Mother with Her Son/Lovers. If this is true, then Europa had seduced Zeus and not vice-versa. It was Her, who directed him to Crete, in order to start a new Western kingdom, the true beginning of Europe.

 Han Marie Stiekema

The Tiger is the Yuan Qi energy that needs to Rise Up as the rising of the Sun in the East to then set in the West - so reversal of dragon and tiger from formless awareness.

 Believe it or not. Just like in the West with the Black Madonna, priests in Taiwan/HongKong have tried to "whitewash" the black face of Mother Matsu. It caused such a great anger with the devotees, that the priest were forced to restore the original state of the statues. Mother's Blackness proves to be universal! 

 The grave ("cave!"/hole) ideally should be located between two hills, the Tiger (female) and the Dragon (male).

 and

 "Womb"; Greece's oldest, most famous oracle, where Mother Earth
was worshipped under the name of Delphyne, the Womb of Creation,
along with her serpent-son and consort Python.1 At various times the
oracle was said to belong to the Sea-goddess, or the Moon-goddess,
various designations of the same primal Mother, whose priestess-daughters,
the Pythonesses, controlled the rites. Eventually the
patriarchal god Apollo took it over, retaining the Pythonesses, but
claiming to have placed the Serpent in his underground uterine cave,
whence came the oracle's inspiration. Apollo murdered the priestess
Delphyne, and held the oracle until it was closed by the Christian
emperor Theodosius. After him, Arcadius had the temple entirely
destroyed.

 Porphyry said before there were temples, all religious rites took place
in caves.1 The cave was universally identified with the womb of Mother
Earth, the logical place for symbolic birth and regeneration. Etruscan
and Roman temples featured a subterranean mundus, meaning both
"earth" and "womb." 2 Similarly, the Sanskrit word for a sanctuary,
garbha-grha, meant "womb." 3
Holy places of Hinduism were caves representing the Great
Mother's yoni.

 Wu is the Chinese name for female shamans. Its written character depicts two dancers around a central pillar—the same cosmic ladder that recurs in the iconography of Xi Wangmu. The Songs of Chu, a primary source on ancient Chinese shamanism, describes Kunlun mountain as a column connecting heaven and earth, endlessly deep and high. [Cahill, 47] It is the road of shamanic journeys between the worlds. Xi Wangmu has shamanic attributes in the Shan Hai Jing. She is depicted as a tigress, an animal connected to shamans in China and over much of Asia. As early as 2400 bce, Indus Valley seals depict tiger-women and women dancing with tigers. Great Mother

"pomegranate," was a biblical name of the Goddess's genital
shrine (2 Kings 5:18), from rim, "to give birth."1 The pomegranate
with its red juice and many seeds was a prime symbol of uterine fertility.
Therefore pomegranates were eaten by souls in the underworld, to
bring about rebirth. Hellenic mythographers said both Kore and
Eurydice were detained in the underworld because they ate pomegranate
seeds there. Nana, virgin mother of the savior Attis, conceived
him by eating either a pomegranate seed or an almond, another yonic
symbol.
The Bible says the pillars of Solomon's temple were ornamented
with the female-genital symbols of lilies and pomegranates ( 1 Kings
7:18-20). Solomon himself impersonated the phallic god Baal-Rimmon,
"Lord of the Pomegranate," when he was united with his divine
bride, the mysterious Shulamite, and drank the juice of her pomegranate
(Song of Solomon 8:2).

 Han Marie Stiekema:

 The astonishing thing is, that this idea has survived until recent times. It went from Sumer to Canaan (Mother Goddess Asherah/Astarte) and from Canaan to Cyprus, where She was transformed into Aphrodite (and Adonis). First of all, there is the church of Panagia Aphroditissa, meaning the church of Mary Aphrodite. There is also the "Panagia Chrysorrogiatissa" church, dedicated to the "Our Lady of the Golden Pomgranate", symbolizing the nurtering breast of the Virgin Mary", while until recently women of the Kouklia village (near Paphos) lit candles in honour of the Panagia Galaktariotissa, the "Virgin who gives milk". Apart from Cyprus, the image of the Sumerian breast-nurturing Mother-Goddess has been found at several other places, as well, f.i. Sardinia.

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  from its earliest appearances in
Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures, the cauldron stood for the Triple
Goddess of fate, or wyrd in Old English: the three Weird Sisters.1
The Egyptian hieroglyphic sign of the threefold Creatress, mother
of the sun, the universe, and all the gods, was a design of three
cauldrons.2 The Norse god Odin stole his divine power from three
cauldrons of Wise Blood in the cave-womb of the earth, where he
entered in the shape of a phallic serpent and beguiled the earth-giantess
by making love to her. 3 Then he drank the magic blood from the
cauldrons and became a shape-shifter, turning himself into a bird to
carry the precious blood back to other gods. This myth was based on
that of the Aryan sky-god Indra, who also drank the Goddess's ambrosia
from three cauldrons, the three wombs of Kali's trinity.4 Indra stole
the elixir by allowing himself to be swallowed by a vast serpent
representing female sexuality (Kundalini). From Barbara Walker's Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

So my name backwards means the alchemical Tripod! Wow! This girl in 1st grade had a crush on me and so said my name was Weird spelled backwards! Then the adult females made me go on a date with her - and I didn't know her mom was a prostitute, living right next to our church! And then since I had to be a nice boy about the whole thing, with no choice, I had all this subconscious anger - so when the boys had a contest who could hold their breath the longest, on the way to wash our hands before lunch - I held my breath so much longer than everyone else that I passed out!!

Cavalli says the body parts BLEED into the Soil - as alchemy - and so my skull blood flowed out along the hall after I woke up. The blood of Osiris is in the land.

Osiris is then Re-ANimated (animus as the spirit) and produces Horus.

 Chaldean cosmology saw the sky as a nesting of seven vessels, the
planetary spheres, like inverted bowls or cauldrons. Beneath the earth
lay the mirror image of this celestial realm, seven more spheres sometimes
described as cauldrons. A Hittite myth called them the vessels
of Mother Death, dark twin sister of the heavenly M.other Siris: "The
doorkeeper has opened the seven doors, has unlocked the seven bolts.
Down in the dark earth there stand seven cauldrons, their lids of abaru
metal, their handles of iron. Whatever goes in there comes not out
again." 9
Egyptians sometimes saw the seven-circled nether womb as a regenerative cauldron called the Lake of Fire. 10 The corresponding
celestial vessels were "above heaven." From Barbara Walker's Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

 And so the SEVEN strings of the Alchemical Lyre is the Seven alchemical Wyrd Cauldrons - as the tones of yin-yang unified or the Tai Chi.

She resembles a human, but has tigers’ teeth and a leopard’s tail. She wears a head ornament atop her wild hair. [Remi, 100] Some scholars interpret this as a victory crown. [Birrell, 24] Most think it is the sheng headdress shown in the earliest reliefs of the goddess: a horizontal band with circles or flares at either end. [Cahill, 16; Strassberg, 109]

People exchanged sheng tokens as gifts on stellar holidays, especially the Double Seven festival in which women’s weaving figured prominently. It was celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month, at the seventh hour, when Xi Wangmu descended among humans. Taoists considered it the most important night of the year, “the perfect night for divine meetings and ascents.” [Cahill, 16, 167-8] It was the year’s midpoint, “when the divine and human worlds touch,” and cosmic energies were in perfect balance. [Despeux / Kohn, 31]

The passage above also says that the tiger-woman on Jade Mountain “excels at whistling.” Other translators render this line as “is fond of roaring” or “is good at screaming.” The character in question, xiào, does not translate easily. It is associated with “a clear, prolonged sound” that issues from the throats of sages and shamans. (It may have resembled Tuvan throat singing.) Xiào was compared to the cry of a phoenix, a long sigh, and a zither. Its melodic sound conveyed much more than mere words, and had the power to rouse winds and call spirits. Taoist scriptures also refer to the xiào, and in the Songs of Chu it appears “as a shamanistic ritual for calling back the soul of the deceased.” [Yun, online]

And so the secret of the Womb-Tomb as the Lunar One of Daoist alchemy harmonics as Osiris alchemy is revealed.

And so the Pythagorean "circulation of energy" was the astrological music as the infinite spiral of fifths based on the Lunar-Solar harmonics (not just the Solar harmonics).

So the Cosmic Mother is from trying to unify the 360 Solar calendar with the Moon - with the extra 5 days to align with the lunar calendar meaning alchemically that only when the Moon energy is filled up first then the Cosmic Mother is returned to (Nirvikalpa Samadhi).

(365.2425 (solar) + 354.3829 (lunar))/2 = 719.6254/2 = 359.8127 days, rounding to 360....Ancient Egyptians used this solar-based calendar for civil purpose and a lunar calendar for religious purposes....He plaid a board game with Khonsu the god of the moon. Khonsu lost and in turn gave some of his moon light to Djehuty. He had enough moon light after Khonsu lost so many times to make 5 extra days. Since these 5 extra days where not a part of the normal year Nut was allowed to be with her husband and give birth.

MDC: nwt
Gardiner: Nut
Budge: Nut, Nu-t
Transliteration: Nut
Coptic: Nout ⲛⲟⲩⲧ?
Hebrew: Nut, Nuth נות
Greek: Nout Νουτ, Nevet Νεβέτ, Neout Νέουτ
Demotic:
Arabic: Not نوت
English: Nut
Kemetic: Nut
Alt: Nuit
Pronounced: Nüt
Meaning: She of the sky

So the music harmonics - as I have proven - in both ancient Egypt and Daoism - where also the Lunar-Solar harmonics as the small universe meditation!!

Why is Mother Kali so radiantly black?
Because She is so all-powerful,
that even mentioning Her name destroys delusion.
Because She is so beautiful,
Lord Shiva, Conquerer of death,
lies blissfully destroyed,
beneath Her red soled feet.

There are subtle tones of blackness,
But the mystery of Her bright complexion
is that it is utterly black,
overwhelmingly black, wonderfully black.
When She awakens in the lotus shrine
within the secret cave of the heart,

Her blackness becomes a mystic illumination
that causes the twelve petal blossom there
to glow more intensely than golden fire.
Her lovely essence is incomparable
the blackness of Kali is blacker than the King of Death.

Whoever gazes upon this radiant Depth falls eternally in love
you will feel no attraction to anything else,
discovering everywhere only Her.

This poet sighs deeply,
“Where is this brilliant lady, this black light beyond luminosity?
Though I have never seen Her, simply hearing her name,
the mind becomes completely absorbed 
in her astonishing Reality.

Om Kali! Om Kali! Om Kali!

Ramprasad Sen
1718-1775 CE
Bengali Poet

Dear Han Marie Stiekema: There is a secret to music harmonics as alchemy that corroborates your Great Mother qigong healing renewal work. I do this same work but I have studied the music harmonics. The Western science converted the harmonics of complementary opposites into geometric magnitude as symmetric math. This was done by Philolaus and Archytas. But then Louis de Broglie realized that Einstein's relativity (an extension of the Pythagorean Theorem) actually went against quantum physics and the only way to unify the two was to have a reverse time phase wave from the future! This was the rediscovery of the Great  Mother in science! de Broglie's faster than light wave was immediately suppressed but is now being recognized again as the Law of Phase Harmony. I have several articles on this. I was recently studying Chinese music harmonics and discovered this was the secret of alchemy that got covered up. I finished my master's degree training with Chinese qigong master Chunyi Lin who did 40 day cave full lotus meditation at Mt. Qingcheng. http://springforestqigong.com

But my master's thesis was also on radical ecology and music theory - so I have been intrigued at the close connection between the ecological crisis and social injustice with the wrong music mathematics! So in Daoist alchemy - the One is actually the Lunar energy as Yuan Qi with the Sun born out of the One - as the 2/3 harmonic. So I go into the details on my blog http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-real-pythagorean-harmonics-solves.html

Thanks for your great research and healing work!

drew hempel