Monica Sj��, was a Swedish painter, writer and a radical anarcho/eco-feminist who was influential in the Goddess movement. She first came to Britain in the late 1950s, and eventually settled in Bristol where she lived for many years, but she also kept a home in Wales. Sj�� died of cancer in 2005, aged 66. Sj�� was an artist, a writer, and one of the early visionaries of the Goddess movement. Her 1987 book The Great Cosmic Mother helped revive what she considered the "hidden history" of the Goddess, and her paintings transformed ancient images and symbols into contemporary icons of female power. Sj��'s work and beliefs centered on her respect and care of the Goddess, or Mother Earth. The Goddess was "the beauty of the green earth, the life-giving waters, the consuming fires, the radiant moon, and the fiery sun". Sj��'s respect for nature and the environment was not mere belief but, for her, a spiritual truth. The Goddess / Earth is to be respected as the life giver. This respect is to be found not only in her imagery, but in two texts which chronicle her journey through the written word. 

December 31st, 1938 in Härnösand  /  Died:   Aug 8th, 2005