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Women & Religion

Women & Religion. The Goddess Cultures. The political, economic, social and religious foundation of matriarchal society was the agricultural year. Fostered a cyclical view of life birth, death, re-birth The Great Goddess or Mother Goddess personified Mother Earth as is the supreme deity.

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Women & Religion

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  1. Women & Religion The Goddess Cultures

  2. The political, economic, social and religious foundation of matriarchal society was the agricultural year. Fostered a cyclical view of life birth, death, re-birth The Great Goddess or Mother Goddess personified Mother Earth as is the supreme deity The Great Goddess

  3. To survive societies need to produce both children and food They worshiped the Great Goddess to receive these blessings All women are considered daughters of the great goddess, are highly valued and hold important positions including the head of family

  4. During the Paleolithic period, the art forms are directly associated with the stone and bone industries Cave paintings with animals and statuettes of women, often pregnant--have been found suggesting the practice of hunting and fertility rituals

  5. The annual King • Transformation of ritual • Reinterpretations and emergence of Patriarchy

  6. Isis is associated with the star Sirius, rising just before the flooding of the Nile and was seen as a bringer of fertility Ancient Egypt

  7. Ishtar is a goddess of fertility, love, and war. In the Babylonian religion she "was the divine personification of the planet Venus".[ Mesopotamia

  8. Ushas is an exalted divinity and the medium of the awakening, the activity and the growth of the other gods; she is the first condition of realization By her increasing illumination the whole nature of man is clarified; through her humans arrives at the truth Indo-Iranian religion

  9. Hera's importance in the early archaic period is attested by the large building projects in her honor. The temples of Hera, were the very earliest monumental Greek temples constructed, in the 8th century BC. Was originally the goddess of a matriarchal people, presumably inhabiting Greece before the Hellenes. Graeco-Roman religion

  10. Brigantia "high, lofty, elevated". Meaning "the high goddess". Associated with Spring, plants, animals and fertility Celtic religion

  11. Devi, the mother goddess. one presiding female force, one in truth and many in expression, giving the world and the cosmos the energy for motion. Hinduism

  12. Haumea a goddess of fertility and childbirth in Hawaiian tradition Hawaiian

  13. Changing Woman Creates the dineh nation by rubbing her body Gives birth to twin heros Dineh

  14. Lakotah • White Buffalo Woman

  15. Woman's Bible, written by famous 19th Century feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a "Revising Committee", is one of the first attempts by women to evaluate the Judeo-Christian legacy and its impact on women through history. The Woman's Bible

  16. Stanton concluded that 'the Bible in its teachings degrades Women from Genesis to Revelation'. • However she and the other contributors found much to admire in the Bible, particularly some of the Old Testament women. • While many of her views are still controversial, time and advances in womens' rights have lessened some of the shock value of this book. • Stanton doesn't go as far as some modern feminist theologians and proclaim 'God is a woman', but there are several contributions which discuss the gender of the 'Elohim' and the female aspects of the Kabbalah.

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