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En amasonisk initiering - när plats, kropp och benämning knyts samman i
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The battle lusting Amazons set up
a wooden image, under oak, in Ephesus
by the sea, and Hippo performed a
holy sacrifice to you. Queen Oupis,
first around the oak, they danced
a leaping battle dance with shields
and then a broad ringed circle dance
the fine, clear pipes keeping time
with the stamping feet.
...
The echo raced to Sardis
and to the Berekynthian land.
Their feet stamping loudly
their quivers clattering.
Afterwards around the image
a shrine was built on broad foundations.
Nothing more divine, nor richer
does Eos see, it easily surpasses Pytho.
(Callimachus Hymn III: To Artemis)

... the quest to reclaim that symbolising/naming power, to refigure the female self from a gynocentric perspective, to discover, revitalise and create a female oral and visual mythical tradition and use it, ultimately, to change the world...

Monster, by Robin Morgan, 1971 ..... We are the myths. We are the Amazons, the Furies, the Witches. We have never not been ...