Today we sadly mark the passing of pioneering priestess Morning Glory Zell on Tuesday, just two weeks short of her 66th birthday. She leaves behind a bereaved community of friends, lovers, and followers; several goddess-children and step-children; a granddaughter, daughter, and son-in-law, and her grieving husband and soul-mate, Oberon Zell, who posted the following message yesterday: My beloved has passed beyond the veil. She drew her final breath at 5:42 yesterday afternoon. Her handmaidens, students and priestesses prepared her body and dressed her in her beautiful Sea Priestess robes. She is now lying in grace in the Temple for a few days until we take her body to its final resting

…King Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites… And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines… —I Kings, Chapter 11, The Bible The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by Edward Poynter Currently on exhibit at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (I searched a long time to find an image in the public domain that didn't show the queen, who is generally believed to have been from Ethiopia or Yemen —although her title implies she may have been from India— without the pale, extremely white skin associated with Europeans. It is far more