Goddess (here in reduced form as the serpent’s messenger, Eve) testified to the right of Man to come to the knowledge of the now forbidden Light.

The Earth brings forth life, and the Earth nourishes life, and so is analogous to the powers of the woman.

Here is a principal mythological role of the feminine principle: She gives birth to us physically, but She is the mother too of our second birth—our birth as spiritual entities.

leaving behind the old archetypal accent on the biological role—to which, however, their psyches are still constitutionally bound.

In general, then, where you have the hunt accent you have a male-orientated mythology, and where you have the plant accent you have the female orientation.

the pharaohs are even represented nursing at her breast.

Now this is the masculine emphasis against the Goddess emphasis; when this occurs in individual psychology you’re overemphasizing the father role: you repudiate nature, you repudiate women. This is what Nietzsche calls the Hamlet experience, bowing to the father and saying, “Ophelia, you can go drown yourself.” “Oh, that this too sullied flesh woul

It is within the bounds and embrace of such female personifications of aspects of the being of the universe that all the life and action of both humankind and the gods took place throughout the centuries of the earliest civilizations.

Nor is there any model for the male in marriage to an individuated female.