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Ancient Images of the Sacred Feminine:
Twin Pillars

The image of the Twin Pillars occurs in ancient times as the gateposts marking the entry to Inanna’s temple. Inanna was known in Sumer as the Great Goddess, also as the Queen of Heaven and Earth and as the Goddess of the Morning and Evening Star. As glyphs, her gateposts occur in the region’s earliest pictographic writing and art.

The emblem of Inanna’s temple shown here replicates an artifact found in Tell Agrab dating to 3000 BCE. The image is the impression made by rolling out a carved cylindrical seal.


One of several phosphenes, a shape seen without external visual stimulation, generated by the nervous system’s intrinsic geometry.

The posts gating the entrance to Inanna’s temple consist of reeds, rolled and bundled; the people of Iraq frame the doorways to their homes in much the same way to this day. Notice the similarity in shape between the pair of Inanna’s gateposts and the phosphene.

As you move through the Side Stretches, feel yourself stretching as fully and luxuriously as the Mother of the Universe might as she’s awakening from a deep sleep to begin her creative play.

As you move through the Side Stretches, bring your awareness fully and distinctly into the right and left sides of your body. Feel the opposing sides of your body as Twin Pillars, gateposts marking the entrance to the temple. In moving through the Side Stretches, you’re preparing to cross over the threshold, pass through the gate, take the essential step—the quantum leap—that is initiation.

Inanna's gateposts

An impression made from a cylinder seal shows the gateposts framing the entrance to the temple of Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth.

(Author's replica in polymer clay; original from Tell Agrab, Mesopotamia. 3000 BCE)

The image of the Twin Pillars occurs in artifacts dated as early as 13,000 BCE. Prehistoric paintings, engravings, and ceramics display pairs of parallel lines to signify the power of doubling. The pair of parallel lines and the space between them portray the mystery of creation. Again, the parallel lines serve as gateposts. When you pass between them, you move into the field of procreative power that generates new forms and suffuses them with life.

 
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