Epics of India Blog

Continuing with the 7 Secrets of the Goddess, I am going to pick up at Gaia's Secret Chapter 1.3 and 1.4, where the narrator talks about treatment of women through the ages. 1.3: -urban culture: value of obedience which showed a man's control, enforced obedience in women -culture weighted above nature--> hierarchy instead of yin and yang--> culture domesticates nature            Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Hindu -seen also in mythologies of the above cultures (like Zeus) -women seen as those who break rules, cause problems -men began to gain value from their possession like women-> isolation for their own good - higher isolation= more valuable--> Snow White, an equivalent also in Indian mythology -Greek and Hindu mythology and Christianity point to women as honorable figures -but then they are later dehumanized to symbolize masculine honor--> rise of Patriarchy 1.4 -more urbanization--> disgust for material things -ea...

Gaia's Secret 1-2 Chapter 1:Male anxiety is outdated 1.1 -Gaia+Uranos--> Kronos, Aphrodite, and others Kronos eats sons, except Zeus, who overpowers him, and the story goes on; idea of female deity "side-lined" by powerful male deity is prevalent in many mythologies -through Egyptian, Eskimo, and Indian mythologies -females have to "womb" which is pure, but the males must compete -pastoral communities realized not all males were necessary -in matriarchal societies, to ensure males could not dominate, the males were sacrificed -in much earlier times, "virgin" meant a woman who was ready/ open to have children, and "prostitute" meant a woman who was free to go to any man 1.2 -Yami and Yama, brother and sister and other mythologies show a relationship of death with sex, sex with pleasure, and pleasure with women, leading to an association of women with vulnerability -rejection of women--> strength and freedom of suffering -wo...