Goddesses

It is wonderful the way in which, both in India and in Greece, the presence and power of the goddesses came gradually back to authority following the devastating ravages in both regions of the Indo-European invasions

the pharaohs are even represented nursing at her breast.

The woman finds herself, consequently, in a competitive relationship with the male, and in this may lose the sense of her own nature.

Earth’s magic and women’s are the same—giving

evidence of the woman viewed mythologically both as the guardian of the hearth and as the mother of the individual’s maturity, the individual’s spiritual life.

The implication is that in embodying the divine, the female operates in her own character, simply in her nature, while the male magic functions not from the nature of the men’s bodies but from the nature of their roles in the society.

The Goddess-centered art with its striking absence of images of warfare and male domination, reflects a social order in which women as heads of clans or queen-priestesses played a central part. Old Europe and Anatolia, as well as Minoan Crete, were a gylany.14 A balanced, non-patriarchal and non-matriachal social system is reflected by religion, my

An (above) begot on Ki (below) the air-god Enlil, who tore the two apart and pressed the sky, his father, on high. We know the similar tale from Hesiod (Theogony 153 ff.), of Ouranos, Heaven, separated from the Earth-goddess Gaia by their son, Kronos.

was from the period of his reign that the Babylonian epic of the sun god Marduk dates, whose victory over Tiamat, the old goddess of the primeval sea, marks the moment of a decisive