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astropsyhe · 2 years ago

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Matriarchy, Feminism and 8th of March

First of all I might say that everything I am doing is inspired by women and for women.

And of course this day is not about showing the love , because love is an action ( according to E.Fromm) , which should be done /manifested every day.

This day is actually about the woman rights and power , and about remembering of those who was fighting for this rights.

Women received the right to vote during the 20th century:

Earliest 1910s - US

And one of the latest in Europe is Spain - 1970s

One of latest countries where women received the right to vote is Saudi Arabia in 2015.

In 2023 Vatican still not says if women could vote.

2020

The UN theme for International Women's Day was: 'I am Generation Equality': Realizing Women's Rights'.

March in Pakistani called «Aurat March» was marred by attacks from stone throwers, after a failed attempt to have it banned as un-Islamic.

And this is happening in 2020 !!!

In April 2019, cleric Jawad Naqvi had called march organizers "the most evil of all women".

In Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, police detained dozens of marchers shortly after masked men reportedly attacked the march.

And the most terrible things are happening now in Iran , where people are shooted from machine-guns for support of women rights

Not-surprising that russia and Iran are united, because they are the same kind of evil and yearn for each other.

But it wasn’t always like this.

The thing is that living in some period of time we accept some things (social constructs for example) for given. We refer for some concepts as static , however history shows us that they are not.

If we refer to the most ancient myths , we can discover that the primordial and supreme Deity was Goddess , thus Woman

In Greek Mythology - Gaia - is Mother Earth, her husband is Uranus. Her first sun - Kronos , and after son of Kronos - Zeus seized power in Olympus.

In Shumer Mythology this is Istar.

«The idea of primal female deity , first adored , then brutally side-lined by a male deity is a consistent theme in mythologies around the world.

The Tantrik tradition of India speaks of the primal one, Adya, who took the form of a bird and laid three unfertilised eggs from which were born Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

Egyptian mythology acknowledges a time before gender. Then there was Atum, ‘the Great He-She’, who brought forth the god of air Shu and the goddess of dew Tefnut who separated Geb, the earth-god, from Nut, the sky-goddess, who gave birth to Isis and Osiris, the first queen and king of human civilisation. Then Seth killed Osiris and declared himself king, until Isis gave birth to Horus and contested his claim.

In these stories from around the world, the male deities compete for the female prize. This can be traced to nature, where all wombs are precious but not all sperms. So the males have to compete for the female. In many bird species, the female chooses the male with the most colourful feathers, the best voice or the best song, or with the capability of building the best nest. In many animal species, such as the walrus and the lion, the alpha male keeps all the females for himself; thus there are always ‘remainder’ males who do not get the female. This selection of only the best males creates anxiety amongst the not-so-good males and translates into the fear of invalidation in the human species. To cope with this fear of invalidation, social structures such as marriage laws and inheritance rights come into being, often at the cost of the female.

As human society learnt to domesticate animals and plants, trade and build cities, we see a gradual shift in social laws, deterioration in the status of women, and rejection of Goddess-worship in favour of God-worship.»

A few anthropologists even argue that Krishna’s dance Raasa-Leela may have its roots in old matriarchal tribes where the women valued only one male of the village.

In such female-dominated cultures, the male could not refuse the woman: in the Mahabharata, when Arjuna refuses her advances, Urvashi curses him to turn into a eunuch. Any man who forced himself upon a woman was killed.

To ensure that the dominant males did not have exclusive and eternal rights to women, the ritual of killing the chosen males at regular intervals emerged.

The only way to survive being killed at the end of the term as king and consort of the Goddess was by castrating oneself. And so in the Near East, the priests of Cybele, called the Galli, ritually castrated themselves emulating Attis, the castrated son/lover of the goddess.

Of course that are rather bloody practices , but now the pendulum has swung in another direction.

In Astrology the 8th House represents all the Unknown , Mystic , Sex and Death.

The connection of Sex and Death we can trace in myths across the Globe as well.

The close connection of sex and death, sex and pleasure, and pleasure with women led to that men began to associate women with amorality , suffering and vulnerability.

Renunciation of women guaranteed freedom from suffering.

This we can trace in Biblical mythology: Samson succumbed to passion for the insidious Philistines Delilah and losses his power.

In Buddhism the daughters of Mara ( the greatest Demon) are associated with decay sickness and death. Rejecting them Gautamma Siddhartha gained freedom from suffering.

In Tantra and Yogic tradition we have practice called - Brahmacaṛya ( celibacy ) which is supposed to give a mystical powers called «Siddhi»

We can see how along the course of history men tried to cheat biology.

Also in Hindu there is a tradition called «Sati» ( in name of wife of Shiva who stepped into the fire ,when her husband was offended)

It is supposed that the fidelity of a woman gave her magical powers. This believe in «sati» has led to concept - if man died for whatever reason , it was the cheating wife who couldn’t prevent it. She was encouraged to burn herself on a funeral pyre to prove her purity.

The time goes on and there is a power struggle in the cities - and women becomes a trophy in this game - «Helene of Troy»

All this leads to the isolation of women for their «own safety»

Woman become a commodity , she loses the ability to control her life and her body.

At some time the men took over all economic activity , and the only activity available for women was a temple prostitution.

The body of woman, so as the land was owned by a father, brother, husband and even son.

The main reason of invention of the proprietary rights - is the fear and insecurity of men.

Gradually, the gaze turned upwards towards the sky. Gravity became a fetter, the earth a trap, and women bondage. Escape was sought. The serpent, messenger of the goddess, was rejected in favour of winged beings or angels who take humanity to ‘higher’ realms, above the earth.

In biblical mythology, the serpent becomes the symbol of the Devil, he who disobeys and tempts others to disobey. God, who makes all the rules, becomes male and resides in the sky. Prophets carry his word to earth. They are mostly male: Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad. They overshadow the few female prophets: Miriam, Deborah and Anna.

In Hindu Mythology Serpent represents many things:

Wisdom ( we can see it always on the neck of Shiva)

Kundalini Energy

Before those who looked at the earth below saw it as the Goddess, manifesting in pairs and triads, embodying the paradoxes of the world. There was Ishtar, the fertile, and Ereshkigal, the barren, in Sumerian mythology; Kali, the wild, and Gauri, the domestic, in Hindu mythology; the cow Hathor and the lioness Sekhmet of Egyptian mythology. In Greek mythology, there are the Fates triad who spin thread, the length of which determines the duration of human life, and the Grace triad who constitute the three seasons of spring, summer, and winter. Thus, the world is seen in feminine terms.

In Christianity now the only one image on woman is the Virgin Mary, but only because she was a mother of God.

In Islam the only one image is « Fatima hand» , the daughter of Prophet.

Why not so many ?

As you can see this turmoil and pendulum , which shifted from one side to another.

Great honor and praise to the feminists who fought for women's rights

But what modern feminism offers?

It says that woman must struggle to win in a man-game. In patriarchal social structure controlled by men. This is thinking inside the box - which is leading to nowhere.

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On other hand women should accept the feminine nature and allow it to manifest itself , beyond this social construct.

Social construct is a human made creation. But nature it is something deeper, something which corresponds to our soul, psyche , genetics.

It is more profound , and beyond any social construct. Society is always changing, but archetype of the primordial wild woman is something which may last even beyond the time unchanging.

As Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés says the one may address this archetype to discover one’s nature through many things such as:

Dreams

Instincts

Intuition

Acceptance of different aspects of the divine in oneself

Archetype of Primordial Woman is the basic archetype , based on which various Goddesses , representing various aspects of Psyche emerged.

One of such Archetypes is Greek Goddess - Baubo.

Known as the goddess of mirth, she is depicted as bawdy and sexually liberated.

In Hindu mythology Deities always have pairs.

Wild Kali awakens Shiva to life with her passion, without her is only a shava ( corpse)

When Mahishasura is threatening the World and even Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva cannot defeat him , then devas ask Goddess for help .

And Durga , Mahadevi slays him.

Hindu mythology with its variety of Gods and Goddesses didn’t lost the feminine and masculine balance.

In conclusion

I think it’s time for Man to evolve above the fear of insecurity and start working towards the World where Woman can manifest herself freely.

I am sure it would be a much better place.

Reference and further reading :

Mostly this text in inspired by great writer and mythologist -

Devdutt Pattanaik. I quote many thoughts from his book " 7 Secrets of Goddess"

Clarissa Pinkola Estes:

"Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype"

Erich Fromm: " The Art of Loving"

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