Edited by Jen McConnel
Price: $14.99
Publication Date: 20 December 2013
Place of Publication: Asheville, North Carolina
ISBN: 978-1494357948 / 1494357941
Pages: 302 pp
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.5″x8.5″
Peel back the layers that comprise the Queen of Heaven. She is Mother Mary weeping at the cross, and Hathor dancing in the sky. She is Freyja with her wild eyes, and Frigg with her open arms.
She is Yemaya, keeper of the sea; compassionate Kuan Yin; and she is winged Isis. Her starry body stretches across the sky in the guise of Nut, and she is Saraswati’s gentle song. She is Juno, and Hera, and Tanit, and a thousand forgotten names, and she is Inanna, descending to the underworld to be reborn.
The voices in this anthology are as diverse as the different goddesses who have claimed the title Queen of Heaven, but each sparkles like the stars in Our Lady’s mantle.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by Jen McConnel ix
A Note From the EiC by Rebecca Buchanan xiii
Inanna, Queen of Heaven by Pegi Eyers 1
Invocation to the Queen of Heaven (The Eight-Pointed Star) by Rohase Piercy 2
Fair as the Moon, Bright as the Sun by Shoshana Edelberg 6
Our Mother Who Art in Heaven by Theric Jepson 8
A Hymn for Mother’s Day in Long Meter by Theric Jepson 10
To Take the Worlds in Her Embrace: The Queen of Heaven as Axis Mundi by Kiya Nicoll 11
Hymn to Frigg I by Rebecca Buchanan 16
Frigg: Allmother by Jennifer P. Hansen 18
Goddess on the Path by Becky Starr 22
Freyja by Edward W.L. Smith 23
Prayer to Frigg I by Rebecca Buchanan 27
Queen of Heaven and Earth by A.G. Muilenburg 28
Aset: Mistress of All Magic by Holi S. Emore 29
The Woman of Seven Stars Goes Hunting by Sara Amis 32
Lucia by Janet and Ron Boyer 36
Entering the Darkness: The Heavenly Queen Descends by Vivianne Crowley 37
Prayer to Asherah I by Rebecca Buchanan 49
Invocation by Sara Amis 50
Dancing in the Temple of the Queen of Heaven and Earth by Danielle Blackwood 51
Prayer to Hathor I by Rebecca Buchanan 57
Priestess of Moab by Jen McConnel 58
Sarah on Isaac’s Sacrifice by Sivan Butler-Rotholz 65
Aset, Queen of Heaven and Stars by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 67
In Tongue by Sivan Butler-Rotholz 72
In Praise of Tanit by Rohase Piercy 73
An Ecstatic Prayer for the Queen of Heaven by Christa A. Bergerson 81
Here by Choice by Gerri Leen 83
The Star Goddess by Katie Anderson 90
Hulda by Janet and Ron Boyer 92
Hymn to Frigg II by Rebecca Buchanan 93
Queen of Swords, Queen of Heaven by Janet Boyer 94
Riding the Tiger by John Mueter 103
Goddess is My Everything by Peace Whitehorse 114
Hymn to Saraswati I by Rebecca Buchanan 115
The Stars in Her Eyes by Katie Anderson 116
Finding Isis Again: Isis in the Pond by Becky Starr 118
I am the Queen by Peace Whitehorse 120
Moon Worship in the Modern Age by Frances Billinghurst 124
Hearth-Chant by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 131
Ma Queen by Sparrow Brown 132
Awakenings by Mary Lancashire 134
Ave Iside by Rebecca Buchanan 141
Annunciation by Hilary Sideris 142
How Do I Love Thee? Making Pagan Prayer Beads by Becky Starr 145
Call to Osiris by Christa A. Bergerson 153
Hail Queen Isis by Szmeralda Shanel 154
Under the Night’s Veil by Frances Billinghurst 157
Salve Regina by Amber Koneval 166
Hera Holy Queen by Rebecca Buchanan 171
My Path to the Lady in the Blue Light by Shauna Aura Knight 172
In the Palace of Lapis by Christa A. Bergerson 194
Distaff: Inanna by Terri Simon 195
The Flower in the Dark by Rebecca Buchanan 196
Aretalogy of Inanna by Rebecca Buchanan 204
Resplendent by Gina Marie Lazar 206
Descent of Inanna Workshop by Opal 207
Frigga, Queen of Heaven, Hearth and Home by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 224
In the Queen’s Hands: Athirat, Goddess of Creation by Tess Dawson 227
Eos Bright Star by Rebecca Buchanan 239
Hymn to Hathor by Becky Starr 240
The Dancing Seshen by Christa A. Bergerson 241
In Praise of Juno by Rohase Piercy 242
Hera My Queen by Rebecca Buchanan 253
Heartbeat of Hathor by Becky Starr 254
Yemaya by Crystal Blanton 255
Hymn to Saraswati II by Rebecca Buchanan 261
Upon the Spiral Staircase by Christa A. Bergerson 262
Two Hymns to Hathor by Rebecca Buchanan 263
Grandma by C.M. Underdown-DuBois 264
Praise Song by H. Byron Ballard 267
Hymn to Inanna by Terri Simon 270
A Drinking Song for the Queen of Heaven by Freeman Presson 272
Lourdes in the Garden by Gina Marie Lazar 274
Appendix A: Our Contributors 275
About Bibliotheca Alexandrina 286
Current Titles 287
Forthcoming Titles 289
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