Aletheia

This sculpture is a copy of the real version by Marino Gropelli. Greek Goddess, Aletheia in mythology was a daughter of Zeus who personified the ideals of Truth and Sincerity. Her Roman counterpart is Veritas. Aletheia is a Greek word variously translated as "unclosedness", "unconcealedness", "disclosure" or "truth". The literal meaning of the word ἀ–λήθεια is "the state of not being hidden; the state of being evident" and it also implies sincerity, as well as factuality or reality. A combination of chatter, consultations of numerology and an openness to see which Goddess would show up brought us (myself and Tracey – Co-Founder of the MotherHouse of the Goddess) to Aletheia and upon further exploration, the deft hand of the Goddess was revealed. Truth is Aletheia, but also wound into the meaning and etymology of the word Aletheia are the concepts of remembering and the state of being unhidden. Implication is that the journey, that which we are seeking, needs to be "remembered" and "unhidden" to connect fully with the Goddess Aletheia. Truth, the Goddess Aletheia, simply is. The laws of the Gods, universal laws, the rhythms of nature simply are. Perception filters, the laws of man, life experiences, interpretation of information are where the experience of Truth become human. Each human may see Truth differently (really interpret the Truth differently) but it doesn't change Truth itself. Rather, it reflects who we are and all of the attendant baggage that we carry. Women are a perfect example of the application of the perception filters of Truth. Labels have been applied to the nature of Woman for thousands of years, beginning with sacred and divine, at times unclean and shunned, and accusations of wanton and tempting. These were the Truths that others applied to women and we accepted them and even lived entire lives under those labels: the Mother, the Career Woman, the Good Daughter, the Attendant Wife, the Whore, the Bitch, too many to name. Under those labels and the acceptance by women of those labels, there was always Aletheia – She burns brightly in our WomanRoots, our Women's Blood and within our Women's Mysteries. She held the Truth until we were ready to Remember and Become Unhidden. For some, the journey to their True Selves is too frightening or perceived to be too difficult and Aletheia is relegated to the obscured and forgotten.本雕塑为马里诺·格罗佩利（Marino Gropelli）原作的复制品。 神话中的希腊女神阿勒忒娅（Aletheia）是宙斯之女，象征着真理与真诚的理念；她在罗马神话中的对应神为维瑞塔斯（Veritas）。“阿勒忒娅”（Aletheia）是希腊语词汇，可被译为“无遮蔽性”“显露性”“启示”或“真理”；其词源ἀ–λήθεια的字面含义为“不被隐藏的状态，彰显显露的状态”，同时也兼具真诚、真实与实在的意涵。 通过闲聊、命理咨询，以及怀着开放心态探寻会现身的女神，我们（我与“女神母院”的联合创始人特雷西）最终锚定了阿勒忒娅；经进一步探索，女神的精妙意涵得以显现。真理即阿勒忒娅，而“阿勒忒娅”一词的语义与词源中，也蕴含着“追忆”与“无遮蔽”的内涵。其暗含的逻辑是：我们所追寻的心灵之旅，唯有通过“追忆”与“去遮蔽”，方能与女神阿勒忒娅全然联结。真理，即女神阿勒忒娅，本然存在。诸神的法则、宇宙的规律、自然的节律，皆是本然如此。而认知滤镜、人类社会的规则、人生阅历、对信息的解读，正是“真理的体验”得以具现为人的载体。 每个个体对真理的认知各不相同（实则是对真理的解读各异），但这并不会改变真理本身。相反，这种差异恰恰映照出我们的本真，以及我们所背负的一切世俗包袱。女性便是真理认知滤镜应用的绝佳例证。数千年来，世人始终为女性的本质贴上各类标签：从最初的神圣崇高，到时而被斥为不洁、遭人唾弃，再到被扣上“放荡诱惑”的帽子。这些皆是他人强加给女性的“真理”，而我们也曾全盘接受，甚至终其一生都活在这些标签之下：母亲、职场女性、乖顺女儿、贤淑妻子、娼妓、悍妇，不胜枚举。但在这些标签与女性对其的认同之下，阿勒忒娅始终存在——她在我们的女性根源、女性血脉与女性奥秘之中熠熠生辉。她始终守望着真理，直到我们准备好追忆本真、褪去遮蔽。对部分人而言，通往真实自我的旅程过于可怖，或是被视作过于艰难，阿勒忒娅便就此被束之高阁，归于晦暗与遗忘。