A friend recently asked me " How can raising your skirts still waves". Such a good question, the basic idea is that raising the skirts exposes the source of all life.
It is a symbolic gesture of course with ancient origins, but the essence of this whole story is the power in that recognition; the gesture exposes the source of all life. Now what is that about? Does that heal? is it simply an expression of creative power? is it useful in this world or does it merely confuse?
I wanted to include here a quote from one of our main sources " The Metamorphosis of Baubo" by Winifred Milius Lubell.
" I think it would be a sad mistake for us to lose sight of Baubo and her icon, the vulva, to relinquish her playful joking, to let her slide out of Western consciousness into scholarly obscurity or into the netherworld of demons and pornography. Her strangeness to modern eyes warns of the danger of her loss. But Baubo is a survivor. She has constantly refused to stay put in a single or confining role of womanhood. She is irreverent she is sacred. She represents those revered sexual and procreative feminine energies that merge to form the nurturers, the transformers and the balancers without whom civilization cannot survive. Baubo's arresting gesture of exposure holds the clue to understanding all the metamophoses of this complex and enigmantic figure."
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