Chinese Buddhists revere Kuan-Yin, Mistress of Mercy, as greatly as they do Buddha himself, and Tara is the beloved of Tibet. Natives of the South American Andes, alongside their Catholic Christ and Saints, still honor their mountain Goddesses. The Aboriginal people of Australia never forgot their Ancestresses, who created the world during the long-ago Dreamtime. And the men and women of Africa know wombs will remain empty and fields barren without the blessings of the Goddesses of the hearth and the field, the garden patch and the river. Even in the West, bastion of male worship, the God's triumph some fourteen hundred years ago was incomplete.
Women have long memories.
That, than, is the purpose of Clio. To remember, to reconstruct, to rediscover and to remind those who have forgotten. It is from these ancient names and forms of Woman that we draw our strengths and powers, and in them we see all that we have been, all that has been taken from us, all that we have surrendered, all that we can become. I have collected here some of these stories, only a very few. These are stories of the West and the East, the South and the North.