Quotes from Layne Redmond

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Women need the archetypal image of a Divine Female. We need to reconnect with the inherent sacredness of woman as creator and nourisher, rather than accept a vision of ourselves as less-than-divine inferiors.

Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess." - Layne Redmond, When the Drummers were Women

At the end, as at the beginning, stands the archetypal power of the Divine Feminine—the goddess. She is our future as she was our past. With her drum in hand, playing her sacramental rhythms, women can once again take their place in the world as technicians of the sacred. In the pulse of my drum, in the beat of my heart, I erect an alter to her forever.

We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born...