Re: Religion

Glen wrote

>
> 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).

Glen I can accept the bovine links with fertility, but it is usual
that the bull is a symbol of makle fertility (despite attempts of
feminists to find the bucephalion (bulls head) as being a metaphore
for the womb and falopian tubes - I feel they are grasping at straws
here. The Mnevis Bull, the Apis Bull, the Bull of Zeus in his Rape
of Europa, the Minoan Bull that Pasiphe conceived an un-natural lust
for when Minos refused to sacrifice it to Zeus as he had promised.
In fact Bull mythology suggests that the Bull, from the first was
symbollic of the male consort of the Goddess.

> >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.

Cannot wait.

John