Triple Goddess

Triple Goddess

Long before the coming of Christianity, the Triple Goddess embodied the three-fold aspect of Gaia, the Earth Mother. She is one, but she is also three: The Maiden, pure and a representation of new beginnings; The Mother, wellspring of life, giving and compassionate; and The Crone wise, knowing, a culmination of a lifetime of experience. These aspects may also represent the cycle of birth, life and death (and rebirth).

In Old Europe and in Gaelic culture, in the Aegean world, and in the most ancient Near East, the Triple Goddess preceded the coming of nomadic speakers of Indo-European languages. In South Arabia the moon-god Hubal was accompanied by the three goddesses, Uzza, the youngest, al-Lat ("the Goddess]] and Manat the crone, the three cranes.

Wicca has revived practices honoring the Triple Goddess.

There is some reference to her being like the Moirai, the Wyrd Sisters, the Morrigan or even the Furies-- basically, every triple incarnation. More than anything, though, she is the personification of all women everywhere.