The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power
What is the history of the Crone?
Associated with the final stage in the cycle of life, The Crone was the third aspect of the Triple Goddess in ancient culture, the other two being the Maiden and the Mother. She was the summation of women's life experience, a wise old mother who symbolised knowledge, judgement and death.
The Myth and Reality of the Triple Goddess
She was Eliza for a few weekswhen she was a baby –Eliza Lily. Soon it changed to Lil. Later she was Miss Steward in the baker’s shopAnd then ‘my love’, ‘my darling’, Mother. Widowed at thirty, she went back to workAs Mrs Hand. Her daughter grew…
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"I asked an elderly woman once what it was like to be old and to know that the majority of her life was now behind her.…
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She is Maiden, Mother and Crone…
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Arianne Clement, Canadian, b. 1980
The Art of Aging: Christine, 2016-2019
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