The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth is more than a book — it is a call to remember. Written by Monica Sjöö (1938–2005), visionary painter and radical eco-feminist, and Barbara Mor (1936–2015), poet, scholar, and activist, this groundbreaking text traces the buried history of the Goddess, women’s ancient spiritual traditions, and the cosmic cycles that connect body, earth, and universe.

First published in the 1980s, The Great Cosmic Mother became a landmark in feminist, spiritual, and ecological thought. It reclaims the oldest religious symbols of humanity — the moon, the womb, the waters, the earth herself — and reveals how patriarchal systems violently suppressed them. Through myth, archaeology, history, and poetry, the book insists that these truths are not lost, but alive in us still.

Monica Sjöö was a Swedish-born artist whose visionary paintings of the Goddess and women’s bodies made her a central figure in the women’s spirituality movement. Fiercely political, she worked at the intersections of art, activism, and earth-based spirituality, never separating the sacred from the struggle.

Barbara Mor was an American poet, storyteller, and feminist thinker whose writing wove myth, history, and radical critique into a fierce tapestry of resistance. Her words pulse with urgency, pulling readers into both grief and awakening.

Together, they created not only a book but a living map: a way to remember our origins, reconnect with the rhythms of the cosmos, and reimagine how we live, love, and resist today. To read The Great Cosmic Mother is to enter a lineage — of women who refused to forget, of seekers who know the earth is sacred, and of rebels who carry memory as weapon and balm.