The early chapters of The Great Cosmic Mother trace the loss of memory — how humanity moved from revering the womb as a sacred source to fearing it as chaos.

Chapters 3 through 5 are the archaeology of that forgetting: the moment the Goddess was dethroned, the myths were rewritten, and the body was turned into property.

For those of us reclaiming meaning through abortion, these chapters are not just history lessons. They are the blueprint of how we got here — and how we might return.

1 — From Circle to Pyramid

In the beginning, power was circular.

Villages, rituals, and economies all revolved around the living cycles of birth, death, and renewal. But as agriculture expanded and surplus appeared, a new logic took root — one that wanted to own the source of life rather than dance with it.

Men named themselves creators.

Sky gods replaced earth mothers.

The vertical hierarchy replaced the horizontal circle.

> “The Great Mother became wife, then virgin, then shadow.”

— The Great Cosmic Mother, Ch. 3

The transformation was psychological as much as political. Once the feminine principle was cast out of the divine, women themselves became “other.” Their blood, once holy, became pollution; their knowledge, once medicine, became witchcraft.

2 — The Birth of the Father God

Chapter 4 follows this takeover to its symbolic core: the invention of the Father God — creator without body, authority without birth.

This god does not bleed, gestate, or decay. He speaks worlds into being.

It’s a convenient theology for an empire. If creation comes from command, not from the womb, then power can flow from the top down.

Law replaces the cycle. Judgment replaces renewal.

Every abortion ban, every policy that frames the womb as a moral battleground, still speaks this language. It’s the echo of that same myth: the idea that life begins with decree rather than with living flesh.

But as Sjöö and Mor remind us, this version of “order” is a lie built on erasure.

> “When the female was dethroned, creation itself became divided against life.”

— The Great Cosmic Mother, Ch. 4

3 — The Killing of the Witch

By Chapter 5, the authors describe the centuries-long purge of female power — the burning of midwives, the criminalization of birth control, the silencing of herbalists.

The body that once mediated between life and death was now branded dangerous.

The witch hunts weren’t superstition — they were early reproductive policy.

They ensured that knowledge of fertility, contraception, and abortion remained in the hands of men aligned with the Church and the State.

It was the militarization of the womb.

> “The witch was the last priestess of the Great Mother. Her death marked the final victory of the Machine.”

— The Great Cosmic Mother, Ch. 5

This is the root of what Self-Guided Abortion resists today.

We are the descendants of those women — herbalists, midwives, doulas, healers — who carried forbidden knowledge in whispers and recipes.

Every act of sharing information about misoprostol, every safe network, every whispered “you are not alone,” is a resurrection of that lineage.

4 — The Modern Machine and the New Witches

The same logic that burned witches now hides behind bureaucracy, algorithms, and medical gatekeeping.

It says abortion is “allowed” but only under certain terms; that knowledge must be mediated by institutions; that the person bleeding cannot be trusted to know her own body.

But the new witches have Wi-Fi.

They organize across continents.

They blend science with ritual, data with devotion.

Each abortion seeker today carries the torch of those silenced ancestors — turning what was once criminalized knowledge into collective care.

This is the matriarchal return in real time.

5 — Making Meaning After the Fall

Reading Chapters 3–5 together reminds us that abortion meaning-making isn’t just personal healing — it’s cultural repair.

We are mending the broken link between spirituality and biology.

We are remembering that creation and destruction are not opposites but continuations of the same current.

When a person self-manages an abortion with intention, honesty, and support, they are performing an ancient ritual the Machine tried to erase: conscious participation in life’s own rhythm.

To bleed is to belong.

To choose is to remember.

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6 — The Return of the Mother

The Great Cosmic Mother never truly vanished — she went underground, into bodies and dreams.

Now she’s rising through networks, collectives, and whispers between strangers.

She reappears whenever someone asks, “How will I feel after taking misoprostol?” and receives an answer grounded in truth rather than shame.

That is what Self-Guided Abortion is here to hold — not just the information, but the cosmology beneath it:

that the right to end a pregnancy is the right to participate in the eternal cycle of creation itself.