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On Crete

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The Healing Ground They Danced For
on the pre-patriarchal culture of Minoan Crete
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt
Offerings to the Labyrinth on Papoura Hill
words for Crete
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt
Circles of Islands
on my last month's adventures, and H.D.'s Matrilineal Poetics
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Autumn Illuminations
of painted books & island women
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Lyra
a poem
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Myth & Fairytale

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Our Lady of the Emberbed
It's the Last Week For Holiday Season Sooth Decks!
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Weaving the Heart's Harp
This Sunday's telling of The Stolen Bairn & the Sidh
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt
Artemisia's Hearth
Golden Thread, Bird Woman, Earth Milk
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Beyond Thrice Nine Lands
tales & songs for solstice eve: a live event in Inverness California
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Amongst the Pear Trees
or, how we regrow our hands
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Mother Animal

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Into the Manger
Mother Animal, Chapter 6 (Part Three)
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'Her Body's Wonderful Possession'
Mother Animal, Chapter 6 (Part Two)
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Under the Laurel Tree: On Marian Birthgiving
Mother Animal, Chapter 6 (Part One)
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The Sow, the Maenad & the Seer
Mother Animal, Chapter 5 (part two)
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The Pregnant Mounds of Old Europe
Mother Animal, Chapter 5 (part one)
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Our Lady

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The Nunnery At the End of the World
of Sheelas & Iona
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The Birthing Night
for Mary, on Christmas Eve
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What Eve Knows
a poem
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt
Holy Trees of Life
embroidered at every hem, from the river to the sea
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A Prayer in the Motherhouse
in the name of life, ceasefire; in the name of life, peace
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt

On Matrilines

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Womanhood & Reproductive Technologies
an interview on Meaning Making Machines, Part 2
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We Are the Weavers
on women's storytelling & textile magic
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Healing the Motherline
an interview with Simone Leon of "Meaning Making Machines"
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Of Chariot-Women and Motherlines
in response to the new discovery of matrilocal iron age burials in celtic britain
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When Women Were the Land
weaving seven threads of fur & fire
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On Land

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Glastonbury Milk, Cretan Honey
two upcoming collaborations
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Sit With Me in My Winter Garden
where the saffron grows
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt
Stars of the Winterhouse
New Moon Workshop Recording
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt
* Into the Stars of the Winter Triangle *
a new moon gathering
 • Sylvia V. Linsteadt
Hive-Milk
the eternal spiral of the nurse & the queen
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