Origins of the Feminist: The Divine Womb

The Goddess floated on the Sea of Darkness; the Eyes of our Great Mother, closed, imagining. Behind the meditative lids was a fiery whirlwind- arcane chaos, beautiful mystery! The limitless Mind imagined all potential existence. Behind the Eye of God was a symphony of raging energy- a sound like infinite, vibrating violin strings in a stormy ocean. The Light, the infinite Knowledge that is an idea in our Great Mother’s Mind became our existence.

The Paleolithic Era

Thousands of years ago it was the Goddess that was worshiped  It was female energy that sustained the Earth and its inhabitants. Like the moon goes through cycles, so does Woman, which seems to connect her to the energy of the Earth and tides. All over the world, archaeologists have unearthed female figurines and carvings, such as these:


prehistoric petroglyph found in a Utah cave

Willendorf, Austria 30,000-25,000 B.C. Paleolithic

Aztec goddess



Prehistoric Nile Goddess

Isis giving birth

Indus Valley 3rd-2nd Millenium B.C

Dreamer of Malta 3000 BCE

Laussel, France 22,000-18,000 B.C.E.

Sheel na gig Celtic fertility goddess of death and rebirth 11th Century

Paleolithic carving seeming to represent the vuvla

Modern scholars believe these statues and images to be related to fertility rites sacred to men and women. Thousands of years ago, from the Paleolithic to the mysterious eras of Crete and Atlantis, women were revered for their life-giving powers-their vagina being "the portal through which a child enters the world" (E.O. James, religious historian, The Chalice and the Blade). It was believed that once a person dies they can return to life by being reborn through the vagina. Blood was a symbol of life, therefore the female's menstrual cycle was mysterious and sacred. Archaeologists have discovered ancient Cro-Magnon burial sites in France, where, around the skeletal remains, are cowrie shells covered in red ocher, a symbol of the vagina and menstrual blood, so the deceased could be revitalized by the woman's life giving blood.

Acts of sex and giving birth were sacred and revered until the men of the Catholic Church began writing history, saying that Eve was the one to blame and therefore her, and all women bore after her, are the carriers of the "original sin," and that she was the one to blame for the downfall of mankind, (1 Timothy 2: 14). Why was the Gospel of Mary buried? During the Council of Nicea it was decided which Biblical texts would be written as God's word and which would be banned. Why does the Catholic Church now deny that there was a female pope, Pope Joan? The Scotus' chronicle of the popes mention her,  " A.D. 854, Lotharii 14, Joanna, a woman, succeeded Leo, and reigned two years, five months and four days"  (The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Barbara G. Walker, p. 475).

cowrie shells, once used as currency and in burial rituals

Our ancient ancestors seemed to understand the sustaining connection of human life to Nature and animals

around them. Many goddess symbols are of females surrounded by animals, water and trees. Our ancient ancestors seemed to be conscious of all life, a seemingly lost heritage in the 21st century.

The early humans may not have been blood thirsty primitive creatures. If we think about modern hunter-gatherer cultures  they rely heavily on vegetation, rice and grains to sustain them. Meat was, throughout modern history, food for the rich, while the peasants begged for a cold shoulder of mutton. Taking a closer look at ancient, Paleolithic art opens more wonder. In his book, Alexander Marshack writes that many line paintings and engravings could be images of Nature, such as trees, branches or reeds. There are images of animals with lines around them that for years, scholars said were arrows, which would be missing their target, why would they paint so many hunting failures  One engraving on a bone object was studied a second time after it was said to have a depiction of a harpoon. Under a microscope, the barbs of this harpoon were turned the wrong way and the points of the shaft were also wrong. It was decided, that this image seemed to depict, more correctly, a tree with branches and not a harpoon. I am not suggesting, of 

Tcourse that ancient people did not hunt, obviously they did, they carved on bones of animals that they more than likely hunted, however, I am sure that they lived like the Native Americans respecting and using all of the animal for survival.

As Riane Eisler writes in her book, many Paleolithic remains seem to suggest a female centered society- the many female figurines found on every continent, the red ocher found in burial sites and the vagina shaped cowrie shells. These early civilization gave birth, (no pun intended) to more complex , goddess religions, that are represented by powerful female deities such as Isis, Nut, Maat, Ishtar , the Shekina, Mother Mary and of course Mother Earth and Mother Nature.

It was not until Judeo-Christian religions that woman became the "weaker sex" the carrier of "the original sin"... the sex who was condemned by God and not God-like herself.  As St. Paul said Eve was the only guilty one, (1 Timothy 2:14). Early Christians destroyed Goddess centered temples and scriptures and deemed the early rituals as works of the devil. The Christian Church declared through Acts 19:27, that the Great Goddess " must be despised and her magnificence destroyed." Christians will defend this saying that it was because Jesus had come and made all other beliefs obsolete. But, could it also have just been a power thing? To gain more land and world influence over the Muslims and Jews of Asia? To keep women from owning land, earning their own money, and making their own decisions about who to procreate with and about giving birth or not and once giving birth, deciding how to raise the child? 

Sudan Sunday

Southern Sudan is among the poorest and underdevelped areas of the world. Ironially, under its malnourished soil flows liquid gold that brings riches- OIL.

"One reason why the country has been at its own throat for thirty-six years: somebody drew the map too big" Melissa L. Rossi, What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World.

Once ruled by British-Egyptian governance, until1956, Sudan is now opressed by an Islamic fundamentalist, military dictatorship. It is a notorious place for sex slavery, over 200,000 captured women and children, child soldiers, over 1 million, and nearly 5 million refugee/ street children, surely their mothers victims of AIDS or domestic violence, and ofcourse, Islamic fundamentalists. The vilolence of this land goes back over 50 years, when Arabic nomads trampled through and began murdering the dark skinned, non-Arabs.
Currently, the majority of people of Sudan, about 52%, are darker skinned Africans who are called "black Africans" and live in the southern areas of Sudan, and about 39% are lighter skinned Arabic peoples who live in the northern regions.The religion of the majority, of the black Africans, are indigenous beliefs, and a small percentage, about 5%, are Christian. However, even though there are less Arabic people in the entire Sudan, there is an overwhelming amount of Sunni Muslims, about 70%.
In 2003, the government funded the Janawid, "gunmen on horseback," to commit ethnic cleasnsing on all black, non-Arab Sudanese, to "leave no black African alive", as the dictator, Bashir, wants it. It is working; over 1 million have been murdered in their homeland, and who knows how many women raped, in order to create lighter skinned babies.

Tomorrow, Sunday, January 9th, 2011, the Sudan may become 2 sperate countries. The people in the south will vote weather or not to secede from the rest of Sudan, making it the newest country in the world. My prayer is that it begins to quell the violence and then people can begin to, if it is ever possible, recover and live peaceably.

http://www.thehungersite.com/ http://www.citizenx.org/ news.bbc.co.uk montrealmirror.com traprock.info ethanzuckerman.com humanrights.change.org

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Women in Sudan

I remember in a biology class i had in high school the teacher saying that scientists can trace the DNA of woman back to North Africa- one of the cradles of civilization. Humankind flourished from these withered and dry regions of the Middle East and Africa. These lands were once stitched together under God's proud eyes. It seems ironic that the violence and horror of these gardens, these fertile grounds of civilization, is like a rabid bull let out of a rusted cage. Are we really Evolving? or going in vicious cycles of Devolution? I don't want to die ignorant, not knowing other places, cultues and people.

"Women will not tell you easily if such a thing happens to them. In our culture, it is a shame, and women will hide this in their hearts so that the men do not hear about it", one woman refugee in Chad told Amnesty International in 2003. http://www.amnestyusa.org/, http://www.amnesty.org/

Violence against women is rampant in countries where women are viewed as property. Rape brings dishonor to their society, therefore it is often used by the perpetrators and is rarely reported by women.
Rape is being used a s a tool of war in Darfur, Sudan and into eastern Chad when millions of Darfuris are fleeing for sanctuary. Young women risk getting raped and abducted going out to get water. HIV/AIDS is now deadlier than terrorism.

Sudan is like 2 countries trapped in one. In the north are the Arab Muslim Sundanese and in the south, where the precious oil lies beneath, are the black, tribal Sudanese. In 2003, the Janjawid, an armed violent militia, created by the government, was sent out to ethnically cleanse the black tribes of Sudan.
Between 2004-2005, over 500 victims of rape were treated in clinics set up in Darfur. Even, now, with the African Union in Darfur, the cases of rape have actually INCREASED. Many Darfuris have said that the degree and masses of the rapes are something that they have not seen before in conflict. This may be why women are beginning to talk about it. It may have happened before, it was just never reported as often.

"They beat us and told us that you blacks are not going to stay here, we will finish you all. They then grabbed my half-sister who was only 10 years old... I saw two of them lie with my half-sister and then they went away. When we got there she was very hurt and was bleeding. She continued to bleed for the following two days and then died."
www.amnestyusa.org/darfur

I know why the willow weeps. Woman evolved from the Creation Tree, planted from the cradled seed of God’s sent angel during the Battle of Genesis.

The delicate creature, transitioned from girl to woman, now clings to the side of the tree, as if trying to catch a breath of life from the passing breeze. Her wide, ebony eyes, like the wings of newly emerged butterfly meditatively open and close. Woman’s gentleness allowed mankind to destroy her. Mankind did not respect her beauty, her modesty, her mystery, her cosmic wisdom, therefore she weeps. Not one sex is better than the other. Both men and women are needed to create and sustain Life. However, God chose the Woman to hold and nurture new Life. So then, why is Woman’s wisdom, feelings and emotions seen as secondary of importance? How did Man become to “know best”? A Woman has an almost divine intuition that cannot be explained only followed for survival of our kind.

This is my first entry i want to share as I read through The Chalice and the Blade Our History, Our Future:

The ancient battle of the sexes seems to be everlasting. Where did this originate? Why did it originate? Was there a time when this energy and distance did not exist between men and women? I have been reading this book giving a second look at the history of humanity. Rainne Eisler, the author, gives evidence that history may not be what we have been taught in Biology and History for ages. Archaeologists are taking closer looks at the remains of pre-history. The remanants, and sites of history are like crime sites, all should be left undisturbed for evidence's sake to get the facts. Before scientists began to study remains, historical sites were disturbed and destroyed by treasure seekers, many in the 1800s, who were not interested in history. It wasn't until after WWII that digging for things from the past became archaeology- to study artifacts to piece together our pats and learn about our future.

Italy                                                                                 Peru

 http://www.leftyparent.com/, http://www.abc.net.au/, http://www.scienceblogs.com/,

A Time for Peaceful Revolution

Sometimes, I think that this Life is to observe and learn for the next Life where we can be activist angels... but some of us can't wait! I actually, however, really believe that all humans are fallen angels. During the Battle of Genesis, the Rebel angels fell to Earth and became humans. We lost our wings as we fell and that's why we have shoulder blades.

Angels are defined in the dictionary as "immortal, spiritual beings attendant to God; they are devine guardians." I believe in angels all around us- they they can rescue us and help us, animals too! I think everyone and everything has an angel, an energy, an aura about them, guiding them (just as i grabbed up my book to reference some more angel stories, my page marker fluttered up off the page as if it were alive, and on it was written "angels")  There are rumors that Hubble has captured images of angels in space. The Vatican knows about these iamges, but apparently the images will not be released and noone who know about them wants to talk about them. 

 There is life and energy in all existence. Perhaps angels are conductors of the symphony of energy all around.

Do you believe in angels?

Are We Watching the Skies or are They Watching Us?

www.apod.nasa.gov

Over the holidays, one of the alchohol induced debates I got into with my brother was over ancient aliens. I was trying to make him consider, he may actually do, I really don't know for sure-he likes to play devil's advocate with me, that alien technology was used to build the pyramids of Eqypt, along with many other mysterious monoliths and pyramids from South America to China (and I just leaned even Bosnia!). I was arguing that because of the perfection of the measurements, and the weight of the stones, the pyramids must have been erected with perhaps anti-gravity technology or something of the sort and by aliens. For, it seems that, ancient people were still using chizels, hammers and rope to carve, build and measure their constructions and perimeters. When scientists study other ancient structures, the stones are rounded and uneven.

My brother asked how do I know the measurements are perfect. I wasn't quite sure of what he was getting at, maybe, how do we really know what is certain about anything. But as far as I know, for argument's sake, from watching documentries, scientists have measured these structures and find them level and sqaure to our mathematical standards of construction. The blocks of these ancient, mysterious stone structures are so flush against each other that not even the edge a piece of paper can slide in between. My brother was also saying that humans are the same now as they were thousands of years ago and that they had a lot of time to build and invent ways to build. I wasn't buying that idea. However, I am ceratin that we can be certain of NOTHING in history- we weren't there! But, I do think we have been visited by other beings and they have helped us develop new technology. I just wish they could show us all how to live and work progressively together! (and maybe liquidate the Republicans...) My brother and I both believe in God; but my trouble is I believe in everything! Aliens, God, ghosts- just not quite sure how they all fit together!
I would love to hear other ideas about ancient aliens! Give me some feedback!

Easter Island, Chile

5,500 B.C Sego Canyon, Utah

                                          Nubian Pyramids, Nile Valley, near Sudan

                                          Bosnian Pyramids

                                            found in a cemetery in Ireland

Rock art found in Val Cominica, Italy 10,000 B.C

                                                rock art found in Austrailia

                                                  Austrailia

Mayan Pyramid Itza, Mexico

                                       

                                          Mayan Ruins, Uxmal, Mexico

                                          Djoser, Saqqara

                                          Sukuh Temple, Indonesia

 

                                                      Kiev, Ukrain 4,000 B.C

"hi, there!"

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A Tale by Anne Frank

"There is plenty of room for everyone in the world, enough money, enough riches, and beauty for all to share! God has made enough for everyone. Let us all begin by sharing it fairly."

THE FLOWER GIRL

February 20, 1944

"Every morning at seven-thirty the door of a little house at the edge of the village opens, and out steps a rather small girl, carrying a basket heaped with flowers on each arm. After shutting the door, she switches her burdens ans starts the day's work. The people of the village, who answer her smiling nod as she passes, feel sorry for her. 'The road is much too long and the job too hard,' they think, 'for a child of twelve.'

But the little girl, herself, naturally doesn't know the thoughts of her fellow villagers. Merrily, and as quickly as her short legs will take her, she walks on and on and on. The road to the town is really very long, it takes her at least two and a half hours of steady walking to reach it and, with two heavy baskets, that's not easy.

When she finally trudges through the streets of the town she is exhausted, and it's only the prospect of soon being able to sit down and rest that sustains her. But the little one is brave and doesn't slow her gait until she gets to her spot in the market. Then she sits down and waits and waits...

Sometimes she sits and waits all day because there are not enough people who want to buy something from the poor flower girl. Quite often Krista has to carry her baskets, still half full, back to the village in the evening. But today things are different. It is Wednesday, and the market is unusually crowded and busy. beside her, market women cry their wares, and all about her the little girl hears scolding and angry voices.

Passers-by can scarcely hear Krista, for her high little voice is almost drowned out in the market hubbub. But all day long, Krista doesn't stop calling, 'Pretty flowers, a dime a bunch! Buy my pretty flowers!' Some people who, finished with their errands, take time to look into the baskets gladly pay a dime for one of the lovely small bouquets.

At twelve o'clock, Krista walks to the opposite side of the market sqaure, where the owner of the coffee stand is in the habit of giving her, free of charge, a cupful with plenty of sugar. For this kind man Krista keeps her prettiest flowers.

Then she takes her seat again and once more start crying her wares. At last, at about three-thirty, she picks up her baskets and returns to the village. Now she walks much mor slowly than she did in the morning. Krista is tired, terribly tired.

The trip back takes her a full three hours, and it is six-thirty when she reaches the door of the little old house. Inside everything is still the way she left it-cold, lonesome and untidy. Her sister, with whom she shares the place, works in the village  from early morning to late at night. Krista can't afford to rest; she is no sooner home than she begins to peel potatoes and clean vegetables. her sister gets back from work at seven-thirty, and they finally sit down and have something to eat.

At eight in the evening the door of the cottage opens again, and once more the little girl comes out with the two big baskets on her arms. Now she walks into the fields that surround the little house. She doesn't have to go far; soon she bends down in the grass and picks flowers, all kinds of them, big ones and little ones, all of them go into the baskets. The sun has almost set, and the child still sits in the grass, collecting her next day's supply.

The task is finished at last; the baskets are full. The sun has set, and Krista lies down in the grass, her hands folded under her head, and looks up into the sky. This is her favorite quarter hour, and nobody need think that the hard-working little flower girl is dissatified. She never is and never will be so long as, every day, she may have this wonderful short rest.

In the field, amid the flowers, beneath the darkening sky, Krista is conent. Gone is fatigue, gone is the market, gone are all the people. The little girl dreams and thinks only of the bliss of having, each day, this short while alone with God and nature."

Anne Frank's Tales From The Secret Annex- 1949- p. 31-33 (translated by Michael Mok and Ralph Manheim)