Thank-you for sharing the wise ponderings in your posting!!
In feminist studies type courses of the late 1960s & 1970s, a concept was introduced that the male psyche was (subconsciously? preternaturally? intentionally and not too sub-consciously at all?) was enraged and jealous
of the one biological function/miracle of having a uterus and …
Thank-you for sharing the wise ponderings in your posting!!
In feminist studies type courses of the late 1960s & 1970s, a concept was introduced that the male psyche was (subconsciously? preternaturally? intentionally and not too sub-consciously at all?) was enraged and jealous
of the one biological function/miracle of having a uterus and growing a child they could never have.
That despairing rage was expressed in the marginalization, disempowerment or erasure of any and all of non-biological female power.
How otherwise could the oral and inscribed histories of millennia of female empowerment, reigns of queens and empresses, successful matriarchal societies have been largely eliminated?
How else did we get Eve as the original sinner?
Woman as provocative, dangerous temptress obviously overwhelming the biologically weak self-control over the powerful natural urges of the male?
I could have added that I feel the Nicean old boys’ workshop was the first political convention. Its work products set a fateful, near eternal, rock-bound power consolidation agenda. 🍃☮️🍂
Swan that's funny. A Muslim I dated a few times in my college days said pretty much just that: women exclusively have the most envious power of all - the ability to create life. So why do they need more?
The more I read of ancient writings though, the more I think it was a highly organized effort too though. Plato's Timeaus may argue 'the gods' created the world, but there's a helluva lot more praying to the (unnamed) Goddess in it. (Who the translator claims is Athena.) Reading Heredotus now, the oldest full history still extant, and got 191 pgs in before any gods were mentioned, though plenty of goddesses were - as well as priestesses & their "oracles", consulted for every important decision.
Even the Old Testament is full of Jehovah railing against the worship of Asherah (called Astarte by the Phoenicians and Ishtar by the Syrians), and tens of thousands of the oldest prayer votives found by archaeologists were either ascribed to her alone - or to her and "her consort, Jehovah" - in total reversal of claims that she was once worshiped as HIS consort (like here, useful for some of the biblical references to her: https://www.gotquestions.org/who-Asherah.html)
Thank-you for sharing the wise ponderings in your posting!!
In feminist studies type courses of the late 1960s & 1970s, a concept was introduced that the male psyche was (subconsciously? preternaturally? intentionally and not too sub-consciously at all?) was enraged and jealous
of the one biological function/miracle of having a uterus and growing a child they could never have.
That despairing rage was expressed in the marginalization, disempowerment or erasure of any and all of non-biological female power.
How otherwise could the oral and inscribed histories of millennia of female empowerment, reigns of queens and empresses, successful matriarchal societies have been largely eliminated?
How else did we get Eve as the original sinner?
Woman as provocative, dangerous temptress obviously overwhelming the biologically weak self-control over the powerful natural urges of the male?
I could have added that I feel the Nicean old boys’ workshop was the first political convention. Its work products set a fateful, near eternal, rock-bound power consolidation agenda. 🍃☮️🍂
Swan that's funny. A Muslim I dated a few times in my college days said pretty much just that: women exclusively have the most envious power of all - the ability to create life. So why do they need more?
The more I read of ancient writings though, the more I think it was a highly organized effort too though. Plato's Timeaus may argue 'the gods' created the world, but there's a helluva lot more praying to the (unnamed) Goddess in it. (Who the translator claims is Athena.) Reading Heredotus now, the oldest full history still extant, and got 191 pgs in before any gods were mentioned, though plenty of goddesses were - as well as priestesses & their "oracles", consulted for every important decision.
Even the Old Testament is full of Jehovah railing against the worship of Asherah (called Astarte by the Phoenicians and Ishtar by the Syrians), and tens of thousands of the oldest prayer votives found by archaeologists were either ascribed to her alone - or to her and "her consort, Jehovah" - in total reversal of claims that she was once worshiped as HIS consort (like here, useful for some of the biblical references to her: https://www.gotquestions.org/who-Asherah.html)