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Test Your Goddess IQ

By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway

The Goddess pervades our culture and consciousness more than we even realize. She is represented - via Her many faces and facets - in history, folk tales and religious legends we learned about in school. Since childhood, we've seen Her famous images blessing museums... Her features carved into legendary temple reliefs ...and Her statues standing at sacred sites around the world. But how much do we know about the world's many interpretations of the Divine Feminine? See if you can place the symbols and stories that represent Her.

1. Julius Caesar caused a scandal in Rome when he built a statue of Queen Cleopatra, dressed as her patron Egyptian Goddess, Isis, in a temple devoted to which Roman Goddess?

A. Venus
B. Juno
C. Ceres
D. Diana

2. The story of Demeter and Persephone represents the sorrow of the mother, expressed as winter and fall, and the return of the daughter, expressed as spring and summer. Hades strikes a deal that Persephone stay with him in the underworld for six months of the year, allowing her to stay with her mother for the other six months, based on the number of seeds she's ingested. What kind of seeds did Persephone eat?

A. Pumpkin
B. Pomegranate
C. Sesame
D. Sunflower

3. Kuan Yin, the Buddhist Goddess and Bodhisattva of Compassion, is known as a deity who heals the suffering of the world and especially one who aids women. She is often seen in sculptures, and sacred art, holding a vase. What does it represent?

A. A vessel to hold and pour out the tears of the world
B. Milk for the babies of the world
C. Love potion
D. Amrita