The Freedwomen's Bureau

for the full moon - hunter moon: artemis of ephesus | the black madonna | isis

“Besides, the very name of her temple most apparently promises the knowledge and acquaintance of true being, for they call it Iseion, as who should say, We shall know true being, if with reason and  sanctimony we approach the sacred temples of this Goddess.”

— Plutarch, “Of Osiris and Isis, or, Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt”