Mother Goose Goddess

I met a young and beautiful African American woman drumming at Soul Food Books. She is a scholar and holds much information. When I asked her about her spiritual path she identified it as: Female Shamanism. That law of attraction is working! She knew about Mother Goose's association with Goddess and emailed this:

Hi, Trish
Thank you so much for inviting me to visit your home today. Thank you for the fruit and herb bounty too.
Jennifer

Mother Goose Goddess

http://goddessgaia.blogspot.com/
Mother Holle is an old pagan Goddess. She was associated with the darkest nights of winter. She rode on the winter winds, bringing purification to the land. This winter purification caused the land to bear good harvest and brought abundance to the people. Frau Holle name means "Beneficent One."

She was the protector of the hearth and was gifted at spinning of flax. Her sacred objects were the distaff, flax, coal, the goose and a feathered quilt. The distaff, a tool of spinners, was used to keep the flax in place before it was spun into wool. Wise women used many times the distaff as a magic wand to create good blessings

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/secrethistory/oldgoddess.html
Holle's quilt whose feathers become snow is linked with the old tales of Goosefoot Bertha and Mother Goose. A Welsh proverb says: “When snow falls people say, 'The old woman is feathering her geese,' or 'Mother Goose is moulting,' or 'The goosemother is feathering her nest.'“ [Trevelyan, 119]

http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/more-about-mother-goose-where-is-mother-goose-from-is-she-from-france/
Bertha is the Norse goddess of spinning. In German mythology, Bertha, is also known as Berchta. I found different references to Berchta as being: the goddess of growing things, the guardian of the souls of unborn babies, a fertility goddess. Sometimes she has a goosefoot and other times she has a golden spindle. At times she’s called Berta, dressed in white, who soothes babies while their caretakers sleep.
To confuse matters ever further, the goddess Bertha is also sometimes called Fru Gode and, it’s possible that she’s connected with Fru Gosen, which might be the German name for Mother Goose. *

Could the truth be that Mother Goose is a combination of one of the Queen Bertha’s of France, combined with the borrowed mythology of the goddess Bertha?

Susan Weed Forum
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