05/21/2025
🦁🔥 Saint Thecla & the Lion-Women of the Great Mother 🔥
After a quick prayer to the Great Mother last night, asking her to watch over my grandbaby, I dreamed there was a lion in the house. The lion wasn’t fierce or threatening — it was calmly hanging out with my family and my little one, a quiet guardian. In the dream, I realized I had somehow acquired this lion from a secret, locked part of an ancient church, hidden away and carefully guarded.
Curious, I looked into the meaning of the lion and was intrigued to discover Saint Thecla — a fierce woman from the 1st century whose story is woven with lion imagery and echoes of the Great Mother herself.
Before saints, before churches, there was the Great Mother — Cybele, Inanna, Ishtar — enthroned between lions, guardian of life, death, and the wild. The lion, sacred to Her, was not a threat but a companion: a symbol of raw feminine power, untamed protection, and primal sovereignty.
Then came Thecla, a 1st-century woman who defied her family, refused marriage, walked through fire, and stood unharmed before wild beasts. In the old pagan world, she would have been called a priestess or avatar of the Goddess. Instead, in the Christian era, she became a saint — but the lion never left her side.
In ancient art, Thecla is shown surrounded by lions, miraculously untouched. She is not their victim — she is one of them.
Her story stands at the threshold between goddess and saint, between temple and church. Like many sacred women of the early Christian era, Thecla may be a goddess transformed, her lionic symbolism surviving as a whisper of the Mother’s enduring presence.
🐾 She is of the line of the lion-women — wild, untamed, fiercely protected by the Great Mother’s beast.
🌕 May we remember Thecla not only as a saint, but as a vessel of the ancient lion-throned Mother who lives on beneath the veils of history.
https://www.nasscal.com/materiae-apocryphorum/roundel-with-thecla/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
