A multilayered, sensory-rich immersion, Returning featured musicians, dancers, poets, actors and activists from all over the world. I attended a pivotal event, Returning to the Mother of Us All, birthed by singer/songwriter Jennifer Berezan. I became Inanna, the ancient Sumerian Goddess who symbolizes death and rebirth, with wisdom gained. I devoured books such as The Feminine Face of God by Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins, and The Moon Under Her Feet by Clysta Kinstler. With my brain on an extended vacation, I was forced to access a more primitive part of my being, to participate in the instinctual world, not merely watch.
I began talking to crows, paying tribute to their visceral wisdom in a poem that concluded, “A coded conversation/In guttural cries/Opens my eyes/And lifts me higher.” Stunned from exhaustion, I’d never lived in such clarity. On a descent to the depths of my being, I found myself throwing my arms around trees and sobbing, feeling their loving embrace. From romance to grief, no emotions are spared, and thanks to Kinstler’s lyrical prose, readers will be taken back in time for one exhilarating literary journey.For me, the Great Remembering began in illness. The humanization of these three figures is what makes The Moon Under Her Feet such a joy to read. While some devout Christians may not be happy about how Kinstler tweaked the traditional story about Jesus’s life and death, you won’t be able to help fall in love with Mari Anath, Yeshua, and even Judas as they struggle with their own very human fears and desires.
Mari Anath herself is the stand-in for the darker side of the Mother Goddess as she struggles to rule justly as the High Priestess and defend Goddess-worship even as she becomes an ardent supporter of Yeshua’s ministry. In this Feminist retelling, Jesus and Judas are destined to play out the mythological cycle of Osiris, the God doomed to die, and his “betrayer” sibling Set. Blending the traditional Christian stories with history, mythology, and a bit of New Age spirituality, Kinstler’s Mary Magdelene, here called Mari Anath, is a priestess of the Goddess Isis-Asherah and is the protégé of the High Priestess and mother of Yeshua and his twin Judas, Almah Mari.
Like Dan Brown’s hit thriller The Da Vinci Code, Clysta Kinstler’s The Moon Under Her Feetpresents a unique view of Mary Magdalene and even Jesus himself. Walk Beside the Infamous Mary Magdalene in “The Moon Under Her Feet”
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