Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Markale Jean
Title : The great goddess Reverence of the divine feminine from the paleolithic to the present
Year : 1997

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Introduction. The Vast Mother. In the religious systems that emerged from the biblical substratum - that is, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the concept of a male god undeniably dominates the complex structure of theological speculation. The contributions of Greek, and then Byzantine philosophy, and the not inconsiderable influence of Iranian spirituality with its Mazdean component, have only reinforced this tendency to represent the Supreme Being with concrete masculine characteristics. Nevertheless, by reading the Hebrew Bible, it becomes clear that this victory for the masculinity of God was not won in an instant. The first books of the Bible, in fact, bear witness to a struggle among the Hebrews themselves, which would be constantly reenacted over the centuries, between those adhering to orthodox Yahwehism and those zealots of the divinities of Canaan, also called the dark goddesses of the Near East. And not even the wise Solomon could be kept from being seduced by the vertigo of the feminine divinities. ...