Spamming, but...

[nilchance]

Why is it that in 99.9% of pagan art, the goddess is a) whitebread, b) conventionally pretty, and c) skinny to the point of fragility? I sincerely doubt that Morrigan dieted so hardcore that she couldn't lift a sword, or that she stood around on hilltops posing artistically in heavy gowns. And WHY is Bast, an Egyptian deity, freaking BLONDE and BLUE-EYED in I Dream of Jeanie pants?

I want the goddess of the round belly. Kinky hair! Bloody hands! Callouses. A god with dreads. Wide hips and graying hair. (And I'm not even getting into my wish for art depicting a powerful witch in a wheelchair.) C'mon, people, what the fuck. This is NOT helping the myth (and the unfortunate reality) that paganism doesn't welcome POC.

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[tobemeagain.livejournal.com]

I see ladykatiewench attached some of what I was thinking :)
I think you'd like the depictions of Hindu Goddesses I grew up with as the feminine ideal. The scariest was the Goddesses Kali, or Krsna's incarnation as Mohini (talk about a temper), there is also Parvati, Saraswati, Mother Yashoda, Srimati Radharani; the list is pretty much endless. However, none of them, no matter their station was a skinny little twig... wait Uttara may have been little, but she was also 16 or younger.