Re: Whats everyone reading now or read lately
Just finished Following The Deer Trods, and now moving onto Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess. It seems like it's along the lines of Reclaiming traditions (or what little I know about it) and looks at religion as a more Goddess-centric point of view, which is fine by me since I don't feel comfortable worshiping a male god (nothing against anyone who does, though). It's the second or third book I've read so far which goes along the theory that Proto-Indo-European patriarchal tribes invaded Old Europe, India and the Middle East around 5 to 6 thousand years ago, who's cultures were matriarchal.
While it sounds nice to think there were tribes that were matriarchal in the the past (or more equal), other than Celtic and pre-Nara Japan, I really don't know of any other cultures that treated women equal to men, and verified by scholars. I'm assuming there must have been others out there that were equal, but I'm still not necessarily convinced about matriarchal old Europe, until I've read some recent scholarly work confirming it.
Anything know anything about this subject? Maybe this would be better as a new topic, but I'll just post it here now.
Just finished Following The Deer Trods, and now moving onto Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess. It seems like it's along the lines of Reclaiming traditions (or what little I know about it) and looks at religion as a more Goddess-centric point of view, which is fine by me since I don't feel comfortable worshiping a male god (nothing against anyone who does, though). It's the second or third book I've read so far which goes along the theory that Proto-Indo-European patriarchal tribes invaded Old Europe, India and the Middle East around 5 to 6 thousand years ago, who's cultures were matriarchal.
While it sounds nice to think there were tribes that were matriarchal in the the past (or more equal), other than Celtic and pre-Nara Japan, I really don't know of any other cultures that treated women equal to men, and verified by scholars. I'm assuming there must have been others out there that were equal, but I'm still not necessarily convinced about matriarchal old Europe, until I've read some recent scholarly work confirming it.
Anything know anything about this subject? Maybe this would be better as a new topic, but I'll just post it here now.
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