Aye's Insights

Thanksgiving is presented as a story of unity — a shared meal, a moment of cooperation, a tradition of gratitude. But the full history is more complex. In Part 5...

Valentine's Day is sold as a celebration of love — but its roots run deeper. In Part 4 of our Holy Days or Hijacked Days? series, we trace the journey...

Halloween is costumes and candy today — but it wasn't always. Explore the shift from Samhain's sacred ancestral gateway to modern commercialization, and ask: was the meaning lost, or made...

Easter carries two stories — one of resurrection, one of renewal. In Part 2 of Holy Days or Hijacked Days?, we explore the ancient roots of spring symbolism, how Christianity...

Christmas is celebrated as the birth of Christ — but long before it was named, December 25th held deep meaning for ancient cultures. Explore the layered history behind the holiday...

The holidays we know today weren't always what they are now. Explore the historical layers behind Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and more — and ask what we're truly connected to when...

They say the gods are gone. But what if they never left — they just became invisible, embedded in the systems, structures, and stories we've inherited without question? Post VIII...

The erasure didn't end in the past. Explore how removing the Mother from our story created the disconnection, rootlessness, and control structures we now accept as normal.

When something cannot be fully erased, it is divided. Reduced into aspects. Given limits. Confined to roles. Instead of the source of everything, She becomes: The earth, but not the...

In earlier stories, creation happens through presence. Tiamat does not command life into existence.She does not speak it into form. She is it. Life emerges from her because she is...

In Post III of The Erasure of the Mother series, we examine how the sacred feminine was redefined through language — how Tiamat, the primordial source, was recast as chaos,...

Before she was called chaos, Tiamat was the source. This is the story of how power rewrote creation — and why the Mother had to become a monster for the...