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The Matrilineal Priestesses of Cretan Eleutherna
a story long gestated, and a book about to be born
What follows is the introduction to a story that I have been gestating since 2021, a story which is one of the most exciting pieces in my upcoming new collection, Red Thread Spin.
A Kernos Full of First Rain
Kernos from Eleusis, approximately 5th c. BCE, in the Acropolis Museum, Athens (source)
Before I begin this week’s offering, just a little note to let you know I’ll be in conversation with Kim Willis (author of No Fair Maidens) this Tuesda...
The Motherhouse Comes to Life
When Women Were the Land Retreat in Yorkshire
October 18-22nd, 2026
In the center of Broughton’s Great Hall, with the fire lit and the waxing autumn moon bright over the deep russet of the Yorkshire Dales, we will begin our five...
The Handless Maiden’s Pears
Of Earthly Eros 2 - August 30th 2026
Moon: waning from full, after the eclipse. She is bright in the western sky before dawn
Stars: for the first time in what feels like months, I saw the Pleiades, deep and high in the middle...
Of Earthly Eros
Everything is moving too fast. Everything. We are moving at the pace of data centers. Our relationship to the written word, to online spaces, to content, seems to be pulling us at breakneck speed out of our bodies, out of connection w...
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Sylvia V. Linsteadt is an award-winning writer, scholar of myth & ancient matrifocal histories, & wildlife tracker. Her books include The Venus Year, Our Lady of the Dark Country, The Wild Folk, & Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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