Eve Achieves Enlightenment - 42.5" X 54"
Early depictions of the feminine were strong, positive and reverent. The advent of patriarchal religions changed all that and what had once been known throughout the human world to be the source of all was turned upside down and the images associated with the Goddess, the Great Mother of All, were redefined as evil, and taboo. Even the word "taboo", once meaning sacred and, therefore, to be approached with reverence, now merely meant "forbidden".

All of the symbols associated with the biblical Eve were first images of sacred wisdom, enlightenment, transformation and eternal life. Eating the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a path chosen by anyone seeking communion with the Divine. The serpent represented transformation and wisdom.

And, although She had many names, She was the One, Great Mother of All, She Who was First, the Monothea.

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