How about a fairy tale mommies?
Once upon a time. . . .
The fairy tale of the cinder-maid originated as an anti-ecclesiastical allegory repeated by real "fairies" - that is, pagans. Ella was Hel, or Helle, daughter of Mother Earth, the Goddess with her regenerative fires reduced to cinders. Her ugly stepmother was the new church. Her ugly stepsisters were the church's darlings, the military aristocracy and the clergy.
An early German version of the story said Cinderella's real mother the Earth, though dead, sent from her grave a fairy tree in answer to her daughter's prayer. This tree produced golden apples, fine clothes, and other gifts. Thus the "fairy godmother" of later versions seems to have been a ghost of the mother, the dispossessed Great Goddess in retirement underground.
Beautified with her new riches, Cinderella won the "prince" (mankind), ever easily impressed by the display of finery. Their union was symbolized by fitting her foot into a shoe, a common sexual allegory. The Eleusinian Mysteries signified sacred marriage by working a phallic object in a woman's shoe. The glass slipper perhaps stood for the Crystal Cave by which pagan heroes entered the uterine underworld.
Like other secret medieval prophecies of the overthrow of the rich, powerful theocracy, the downfall of Cinderella's ugly stepmother and stepsisters may have been intended as a prophecy.
~ the end ~
Go ask her some questions!
In memory of Mel 
aka: sitting bull 
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