Ariadne Tree 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" trade paperback book illustrated with black and white photographs

anger and laziness

The path to enlightenment

the Fall Festival of Lights

Ariadne Tree 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"Goddess of Ecstatic Trance. Her priestesses bare breasted practiced ritual snake handling ecstatic dancing and prophetic trance. Priestess queens ruled Crete the last culture in recorded history to support equality. Ariadne "The High Fruitful One," brings Rebirth. This lunar fertility goddess was known for her athletic prowess. Serpents, symbols of rebirth, were ritually handled by her priestesses, whose bare breasted costumes suggest the sacred role