Wholistic Feminism

[jennifer jane]

Dave......first I'd argue that christians are polytheists and that Goddess worshipers were always the monotheists.  This comes from a lifetime of observations about christianity from the outside.  Original sin?  The entire Adam and Eve story is an allegory about a jealous mountain god opposing the Mother Goddess, who always is accompanied by wild animals, predators, lions, hawks, etc. Who never gave physical birth but at the roots was always, in the beginnings, a female identified hermaphrodite.  All the symbols in that story are Goddess ones and the major flaws were that Yahweh wished humanity to remain ignorant and lied while the serpent, another Goddess image, told the absolute truth and wanted humanity to gain immortality and wisdom (Sophia in other early christian traditions)   I shake my head in wonder that no one seems to understand what is so clearly stated in that story.

Do not mistake me for some Dianic white lighter.  I view the Goddess as the sum of all things, that the fundamental rule of the universe is life must eat life, that thus the Goddess stands in a place of balance between light and dark and so do I as Her daughter.
Post Merge: September 08, 2009, 12:01:44 PM
Fairy Girl, if you follow the link back to my blog, from the home page is a link in the sidebar to my historical essays.  I am not allowed to put direct links here, sorry.  I cannot access my profile to change and add a sig line either, not sure why.

Thank you transheretic; I think you have a point and I will most certainly explore the Maetreum of Cybele and your links. Very interesting and  you have many valid points.

JJ

[transheretic]

The essays on transsexual priestess in the ancient Goddess traditions are at both the first and third urls in my sig.....