What Goddess statue is that pictured there or it just called "The Moon Goddess" or is it a Witch?
I think the woman on the thrown is supposed to be the Moon Goddess in the crone form. Clearly this is an elderly woman.
From my understanding there are many different names for the Moon Goddess. It also gets quite interesting because various pantheons treat the deity of the Moon Goddess differently.
The Moon Goddess is typically seen as a trinity of personas, even when she is viewed as a single diety. The Virgin Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone (or elderly wise Goddess).
For example, the Celtics worship Cerridwen as being all three. Just one Goddess that can take all three forms.
Other cultures have used separate Goddesses to present the three forms.
I perfer the latter.
I have created my own pantheon and I have given the Moon Goddesses the following names:
Leah = the young maiden
Naomi = the mother
Dorthia = the crone
Why did I make up my own pantheon, you might ask?
Because I view all deities as existing in our own psychic. This doesn't make them any less real. For they are as real as our psychic!
I have a very unique view of the witchcraft traditions. My view is based on Eastern Mysicism, European History, and other Indigenous tribes such as the North American Indians as well as the Australian Aborigenes, and any other culture that has good ideas.
I take any ideas that work for me, and use them intuitively.
Above all else I am a human on planet Earth. I will consider what any humans have to say. If it makes sense to me and I find it intuitively appealing I use it. If it makes no sense to me or has a bitter taste I reject it.
I don't believe that God is bitter.
So I only take what's sweet.
So in my pantheon the statue in the picture would represent Dorthia to me. If it represents Cerridwin to someone else, that's fine too. I won't quibble over deities because we create our own deities. They are merely a psychic communiqué with the Great Spirit.
Everyone worships the Great Spirit ultimately. Even the people who are lost in the Mediterranean mythology. They are trying to worship the Great Spirit, but they are so busy worshiping the mythology instead of the spirit that they've truly lost their way.
It's of no consequence in the end though because it's impossible to lose our way from the Great Spirit. Just because they have confused the mythology with the God doesn't make them evil, it just makes them blind.
