No. 001 · Greece
Hekate
Keeper of the Keys GreekTorchbearer at the crossroads. She holds the keys to every threshold between the living and the dead.
Volume I · The Living Goddess Series
SistersofShadow
Goddesses of death, darkness, and the underworld. Nine portraits. Four continents. Five thousand years.
“They ruled the places the living feared to go.”
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Forthcoming · 2026 · First Edition
i.
About the Book
A study of the goddesses who keep the quiet kingdoms.
Sisters of Shadow is the debut volume of the Living Goddess Series. It is a nonfiction mythology study profiling nine goddesses of death, darkness, and the underworld across world traditions, written for a dual audience: academic readers and spiritual practitioners.
The writing is scholarly in research, contemporary in voice. Rigorous footnotes with a feminist frame. Each chapter is a portrait drawn from primary sources, sacred texts, and living traditions. This is their book and it has been a long time coming.
The feminist analytical frame is not incidental. It is the spine of the book.
9
Goddesses Across World Tradition
5,000
Years of Sacred History
4
Continents of Living Practice
ii.
The Nine
Nine names. Nine kingdoms beneath the world.
Each entry in the volume stands alone. Each goddess in her own light, drawn from the traditions that made her.
No. 002 · Greece
Persephone
The Maiden Queen GreekQueen of two worlds. She descends willingly now, carrying spring into a kingdom that had never known it.
No. 003 · Mesopotamia
Ereshkigal
Queen of the Great Below SumerianSovereign of the seven-gated land. The dead enter her kingdom stripped of everything. She takes nothing she was not owed.
No. 004 · Japan
Izanami
She Who Invites Japanese ShintoMother of the islands of Japan. She died giving birth to fire and took dominion over death as her inheritance.
No. 005 · Scandinavia
Hel
The Hidden Goddess NorseHalf living, half corpse. She rules those who died without glory, and her domain is quieter than Valhalla and far older.
No. 006 · Hebrew / Mesopotamia
Lilith
The First Woman Hebrew / MesopotamianShe left the garden on her own terms. The traditions that followed tried to make her a demon. She became a symbol instead.
No. 007 · India
Kali
The Dark Mother HinduDevourer of time, garlanded in skulls. Her destruction is not cruelty. It is the condition of all new creation.
No. 008 · West Africa / Haiti
Maman Brigitte
Lady of the Cemetery Haitian VodouBorn from the African diaspora, she guards the first grave in every cemetery. She drinks rum, tells the truth, and takes no disrespect.
No. 009 · Mexico
Santa Muerte
The Most Holy Death Mexican Folk ReligionThe fastest growing spiritual movement in the Americas. She does not judge. She accepts everyone who comes to her, without exception.
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The Living Goddess Series
Four more volumes. A world of goddesses still to come.
II
Forthcoming
Mothers of Myth
Goddesses of Creation, Devotion & GraceThe second volume turns to the great mothers of world mythology. Creation goddesses, birth deities, and the cosmic forces of nurture across traditions that have honored them since the beginning of recorded history.
III
In Development
Cosmic Queens
Goddesses of sky, sun, and celestial sovereigntyThe women of the sky have been underestimated. Volume III profiles the solar and celestial goddesses whose dominion over the heavens preceded many of the male sky gods who replaced them.
IV
In Development
Women of War
Goddesses of battle, strategy, and righteous destructionNot violence for its own sake. The warrior goddesses of world mythology carry justice, strategy, and the moral weight of the battlefield. This volume is their record.
iv.
The Author
Richard Fox
Richard Fox is an independent author, researcher, and practicing pagan based in Portland, Oregon. He spent more than fifteen years working in international media and large-scale cultural production before turning his attention to the project he probably should have started first: a book about goddesses.
He has conducted field research across Europe in mythology, folklore, and the sacred feminine, and has spent a frankly unreasonable amount of time in archives, temples, and cemetery gates in the name of due diligence. His pagan practice informs his research without replacing it. He believes these two things are not in conflict.
He is also a visual artist whose work explores mythology, the esoteric, and dark aesthetics. Sisters of Shadow is his first book. He is already working on the next one.
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