TRIPLE GODDESS Edited by Jack Grayle (3D Web Book + Audio)

From Hekataeon author Jack Grayle comes TRIPLE GODDESS, a sweeping, cross-disciplinary anthology exploring one of humanity’s oldest, most powerful, and most haunting archetypes: the Mother–Maiden–Monster. Drawing from ancient myth, folklore, esoteric philosophy, literary analysis, ritual practice, and lived gnosis, this collection traces the many faces of the Triple Goddess across cultures, centuries, and spiritual traditions. From the spinning rooms of early European fairy tales to the necromantic chambers of the ancient world, from the Alpine storms of Perchta to the mystic poetry of Robert Graves, this anthology reveals the Goddess not as a symbol—but as a primordial force still weaving her way through the human psyche.

Across essays, myths, historical studies, and philosophical meditations, the contributors illuminate the deeper patterning of Triplism: the pervasive, often-forgotten worldview in which the number three forms the root-structure of fate, magic, and meaning. Here, readers encounter the Moirai and Norns who spin and sever the threads of life; the folk figures—Holle, Holda, Perchta—who bless the industrious and punish the idle; and the esoteric feminine powers hidden in Gnosticism, ritual sexuality, and the symbolic language of ancient rites. The anthology also dives into Robert Graves’ transformative vision of the Muse and the White Goddess, revealing how the triple feminine inspired some of the most enduring poetry in the Western canon.

Yet this collection is far more than an academic compilation. It is a living text—immersive, visceral, and often unsettling. Its pages pulse with the rhythm of ritual unfolding from stillness into rupture; with the hum of spinning wheels echoing ancestral memory; with stormwinds, oracles, and the ecstatic terror of encountering divinity in its most ungovernable form. Each piece builds toward a deeper understanding of fate, magic, embodiment, and the metaphysical “third factor” through which the uncanny enters the world.

Whether you come to this anthology for mythology, occult studies, women’s mysteries, folklore, ritual praxis, or poetic inspiration, TRIPLE GODDESS offers a comprehensive, beautifully interwoven vision of the ancient feminine power that stands at the crossroads of birth, death, and transformation. Dense with scholarship and rich with enchantment, it is a landmark volume—one that restores the long-buried roots of the Triple Goddess to their full intensity, complexity, and sacred ferocity.

This is not merely a book about the Goddess. It is a book that invokes her.

Contents

• Original artwork by Red K. Elders
• Introduction by Jack Grayle
• Jo Ha Kyu by Red K. Elders—An embodied exploration of the ancient tripartite rhythm of creation, rupture, and resolution, revealing how this energetic pattern shapes ritual, art, and mystical experience.
• The Great Mother and the Mysteries of Triplism by Robin Artisson—A deep investigation into the primordial metaphysics of “Threeness,” uncovering how triplicity structures magic, destiny, and the very fabric of the natural world.
• A Goddess Arrives: Nineteenth Century Sources of the New Age Triple Moon Goddess by Prudence Jones—A historical study tracing how Victorian scholarship, folklore, and comparative religion helped forge the modern Triple Moon Goddess archetype.
• MUSE: The Forgotten Story of Robert Graves, Laura Riding, and the Triple Goddess by Jack Grayle—A gripping literary and biographical narrative revealing how the tumultuous relationship between Graves and Riding catalyzed the mytho-poetic vision of the Triple Goddess.
• Doom Shapers: The Warp and Weft of Wyrð by Shani Oates—A scholarly descent into Germanic and Northern European fate-mythology, where goddesses, spirits, and ritual specialists weave the ever-turning strands of wyrd.
• Once Fated, Thrice Bound: Chaos, Order, and Fortune’s Wheel by T. Susan Chang—A richly symbolic examination of Fate, chance, and the structure of the cosmos, exploring how divination mirrors the cosmic weaving of the unseen.
• Glorious Barbelo: The Divine Feminine in Gnosticism—Thrice-male but Thrice-maternal by Jessica Grote—A rigorous yet lyrical study of Gnostic texts revealing the complex, sexually charged, and transcendent dimensions of the divine feminine in Barbelo/Sophia traditions.
• The Triune Nature of Mary Theotokos by H. Feist—A comparative theological reading that uncovers Mary’s triple identity as virgin, mother, and psychopomp by placing Christian tradition alongside the cult of Artemis.
• Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair: The ‘Weird Sisters’ of Shakespeare’s Macbeth as Embodiments of Fate, the Goddess Hecate, and the World Soul by Emily Carding—A penetrating reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s witches as mythic agents of destiny whose origins reach back to Hecate, ancient sorcery, and cosmic order.
• Mother, Maiden, Monster by Klara Wolfe—A folkloric and personal journey into the many guises of Frau Holle, revealing her as an ever-shifting goddess who blesses, punishes, protects, and devours.
• Hekate: Her Mythos and Black Womanhood by Alexis Silvera—A powerful reclamation of Hekate through the lens of Black womanhood, exploring sovereignty, liminality, and ancestral presence in her mythic figure.
• Conjuring Ferocity: The Dakini and the Triune Goddess by Erin Kalashnikova—A tantric exploration of the Dakini as embodiments of fierce wisdom, situating them within the broader triune pattern of divine feminine rage, grace, and liberation.