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Monday, December 17, 2007

M speechless....

For I am the first and the last
I am the venerated and the despised
I am the prostitute and the saint
I am the wife and the virgin
I am the mother and the daughter
I am the arms of my mother
I am barren and my children are many
I am the married women and the spinster
I am the woman who gave birth and she who never procreated
I am the consolation for the pain of birth
I am the wife and the husband
And it was my man who created me
I am the mother of my father
I am the sister of my husband
And he is my rejected son
Always respect me
For I am the shameful and the magnificent one…



Hymn to Isis, 3rd or 4th century BC,
Discovered in Nag Hammadi…
Rediscovered from ‘Eleven Minutes’ by Paulo Coelho and re-written and posted here by Andy!! ^_^

1 comment:

Miss_Nobody said...

This is lovely,written a long time ago, but timeless, describes a bit of everyone *good* and *bad*