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So Much To Weep Over
…We are still deep within this patriarchal love of not Earth but of battle spear and its plunder, domination of Nature and all Her living beings for selfish wealth. And since woman in these male-oriented traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are seen as the dark, the evil, the lifeless life of our Earth, the despised Nature, she is despised, oppressed and so is the Feminine of which woman is not only the symbol but living embodiment.
… In the older mother myths and rites the light and darker aspects of the mixed thing that is life had been honored equally and together, whereas in the later, male-oriented, patriarchal myths, all that is good and noble was attributed to the new, heroic master gods, leaving to the native nature powers the character only of darkness- to which, also, a negative moral judgment now was added. …Where the goddess had been venerated as the giver and supporter of life as well as consumer of the dead, women as her representatives had been accorded a paramount position in society as well as in cult. Such an order of female-dominated social and cultic custom is termed, in a broad and general way, the order of Mother Right. And opposed to such, without quarter, is the order of the Patriarchy, with an order of righteous eloquence and a fury of fire and sword.’
~Joseph Campbell, Occidental Mythology
