THE  MASKS  OF  THE  GODDESS​         Myth, Mask and Story
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1999 - 2019                     

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"What the audience saw when a dancer looked through the eyes of the mask was the Goddess  Herself, ancient and  yet contemporary, looking across time, across the miles."  ...............Diane Darling

I, Lauren Raine, can take credit for making the masks in the Masks of the Goddess collection, but the Project belonged to many people who wrote the stories, performed, created rituals, danced, and prayed.  Any work of art, especially a long collective work of art, is like a window into another universe. 

And a great work of art breaks that window, and reveals something that goes on far beyond the picture plane.  That's how I feel about this collective work of art - the Goddesses have come alive in the lives and telling of so many women,,and as those women aspected the "face of the Goddess"  She touched their lives as Her ancient stories became contemporary and personal.  And as these  communities invoked the Goddess through the medium of masks, She planted seeds for others as well.  The work continues on beyond the picture plane.


Photos below are from the Archive of performances  by Lauren Raine and Collaborators 1999 - 2019.   To read Excerpts from the Archives about each Goddess, including mythology, interviews, performance scripts, poems, stories, and other contributions by participants, please follow the link from each Mask in the Mask section below.  

Photographs are by:  Jerri Jo Idarius, Ileya Stewart, Thomas Lux, Peter Hughes, Ann Beam and Lauren Raine                                                                                                                     

The Earth
Great Mother of Mexico
Yoruba Goddess of love
Lakota Bringer of the Great Ceremonies
Celtic Goddess of Women and the Land
Norse Goddess of Love
Chinese Goddess of Compassion
Tibetan Bodhisattva of Compassion
Sustainer of the Americas
Hawaii's Volcano Goddess
Ocean Mother of Africa
Gnostic Christianity Feminine Face of God
Winter's Crone of Scotland
Great Goddess of Sumaria
All Weavers
Navajo Goddess of the Cycles of Life
Celtic Goddess of the Hot Springs
Ocean Mother of the Inuit
Great Weaver of the Americas
Egyptian Mother Goddess
Biblical Shadow Goddess
Mother Earth
Dark Mother of India
Japanese Goddess of the Sun
Roman Numina of the Orchards
Greek Goddess of Love
Orisha of Storms
Battle Goddess of the Celts
Ancient Mother
Egyptian Protector of Cats
Hindu Goddess of the Arts
Goddess of Spring and of Death
Guide of Souls
Goddess of the Moon
Universal Trickster
Medusa
Greek Goddess of the Rainbow
Hawaiian Goddess of the Volcano
Norse Winter Goddess
Pueblo Pollinator
Sacred Bee Priestesses
Balinese Goddess of Rice
Elemental Goddesses of Tibetan Buddhism
   PERFORMANCES:
The Virgin of Guadaloupe
Hagia Sophia
Spider Woman
Gaia and Pachamama
White Tara
White Tara
Yemeya
Spider Woman
Sophia
Amaterasu Omikami
Selu/Corn Mother
Mana Youngbear & Cast
Pachamama
Rainbow Woman
Ceres/Demeter
Aurora (Dawn)
Gaia
The Weaver
Flora
Sedna's Shaman
Hecate
The Morrigan
Maiden, Mother, Crone
Lauren Raine & Cast
Grandmother Spider Woman
The Solstice Sun
Ice
The Lady of Avalon
Kali
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