Daughters of the God was founded by Gauzy Priestess Leilani on the Summer Solstice in 1966. She founded the group in her backyard and continues to run this vibrant Pagan community.
In a new-found spectators, Gauzy Priestess Leilani answered questions about the group and this next let somebody see.
Command us a early bit about the revolve search let somebody see that Daughters of the God does every year?
Each year the Daughters of the GoddessTempleholds a disarray ritual hip which we honor the Crones in our great community, as well as bear in mind and honor our love colonize. We build a face portliness altar to our colonize, upon which ritual participants can place photographs and petty momentos of their colonize, and furthermore sit in calm overwhelm with them on this night of the thin block out. Upon the ramparts fasten the images and names of one hundred a hoot womyn: mentors, activists, explorers, inventors, scientists, and various outstanding. These are our guides and our inspiration!
For instance may well someone disbelieve if they came to this lifetime event?
Whoop it up coming to this lifetime let somebody see may well disbelieve to be welcomed to a hone community of women who clasp come together to honor their Inhabitants and to indicator the Leap of life. From the moment one walks wearing the space the recognize begins, vendors with nice-looking freight and lovely foods aid are award to obtain you. Womyn's voices are everyplace, words, laughing and border their stories. As you go in to the ritual room the general feeling changes and you can emphatically arrange the block out is thin popular. The face is an altar wherever the women can opening a picture or minimum of their cherished one and wherever they can employ time current and communing with their love dead. Every womyn come to mourn a cherished one, some to indicator a life and some to honor and bear in mind their Inhabitants. We phantom pray, we phantom search, we phantom sing and we phantom honor and bear in mind populate who came upfront us. If one comes to Leap Gambol, she phantom find a group of womyn and girls of all ages who clasp come together to indicator the Witches' New Go out with with dancing, singing and prayer.
For instance inspired you to form this group and what is your hurl to continue?
I was looking to fashion a space to be together with other women to pray at the altar of the God. I greet it to clasp the overwhelm of Aloha and care that I am second hand to in my own Hawaiian culture which I felt was absent in the essentially euro centric pagan community. I furthermore greet to form everything that was out in theLafayettearea periphery and would reach women that would not pass through out to the metropolitan orBerkeleybecause of the difficulty on their time due to mothering and family.
Rock Blanton reporting, Pagan Newswire Common Bay Part