Re: [tied] Re: Religion

>This belief in which a woman was drawn forth from a man is another
>old mythic Middle Eastern element. Athene was drawn forth from the
>head of Zeus, Kumarbi has a child drawn from his thigh, as Dionysus
>was born from Zeus.

Actually, Gimbutas disagrees with you. The head of the bull can be seen as a
fertility symbol of the Goddess. As such, Athena/Dionysus as the Goddess
would have given birth to herself (in the form of a cow mother).

>Eve was drawn from Adam's rib. These all seem
>cases that were hatched at about the time that >patriarchal "dominator"
>cultures were replacing the earlier >Matrifocal "partnership" cultures (to
>use Riane Eisler's terminology).

Yes, the patriarchal Semitish, the matrifocal Europeans and the egalitarian
IndoTyrrhenians all conspired to produce a new mythos during the beginnings
of European agriculture. More later, alot more.

- gLeN


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