12/24/2023
One thousand ancestral mothers, each one linked directly to you through your matrilineal line.
Your foremothers were reindeer women that lie at the heart of the great ice.
Your foremothers were reindeer women who followed the herds across the frozen tundra and along the boundary of the ice out to the very edges of the world, a polar terrain skirting the deep glaciers that sat heavily all across the northern land.
Now let us name our one thousandth mother – a woman with a reindeer soul.
Her face will shift and alter since, to the eyes of each of us, she will appear in different forms and stand at a different place within the web of mother lines.
What does she teach us, our ancestral woman from the time of ice?
In her hands, early symbolic sacred images of women appear in carved or painted forms.
The spirits of nature come alive to her for she carries the imagination and desire to listen to them.
The lands awaken to her begin to sing the songs of rocks and rivers, returning sun and dancing moon, stars in the black above the tundra, wind within the forest pine."
~ Carolyn Hillyer, "Sacred House: Where Women Weave Words into the Earth"
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Art by Amanda Clark
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