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Our Warrior Religion
Successive waves of invasions by the Indo-Europeans began the dethronement of the Great Goddess. The dates when these waves began are given by various authorities as between 4500 B.C. and 2400 B.C. The goddesses were not completely suppressed, but were incorporated into the religion of the invaders.
The invaders imposed their patriarchal culture and their warrior religion on the conquered people. The Great Goddess became the subservient consort of the invaders’ gods, and attributes or power that originally belonged to a female divinity were expropriated and given to a male deity. Rape appeared in myths for the first time, and myths arose in which the male heroes slew serpents — symbols of the Great Goddess…
~Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
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It sure does seem like, when some people say the words, “American history,” they are really just remembering John Wayne movies. They don’t want anyone bringing up real history and killing the buzz…
And, it sure does seem like, when some people say the word “Constitution,” they really just mean the Second Amendment. Books can be censored. Voting districts can be Gerrymandered. Protests can be banned. To some people, only the right to bear arms is inalienable.
— Jim Rigby
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