Looks like I'm overdue for an update again. I was going to hold off as I wanted to say something profound about the relation ideologically between SG and the general idolisation of the feminine principle. It keeps escaping me though.
Part of this tangent has been finally reading The Templar Revelation (on which some of the Da Vinci code is based). Although the authors are a little sensationalist and must be taken with a pinch of salt, they do a good job of joining the dots between the Isis cults of latter-day Egypt to quasi-Christian gnosticism, which in turn has relevance to the fervour and devotion shown in the Middle Ages by communities in France and elsewhere to 'black madonna' idols.
Reading between the lines, if any credence can be given to the Bibilcal Passion at all, then it seems likely that Mary Magdalene was the Isis to the big J's Osiris - who was also a dying and rising god, but who was also nothing without his spell-casting female counterpart. In fact most 'pagan' religious mystery traditions have women as equal (if not superior) counterparts to the men, and that kings and priests were anointed or given their power by the presiding queen or priestess.
Not that I am a great expert on the history of feminism but to me it's abundantly clear that women have been fighting not for an equality they never had before, but for an equality which in many ways they *used* to have but which was stolen from them many years past.
To me this site (putting the commercial overtones to one side) manages to capture some of this spirit. Not in a annoying 'grrrl power' kind of way but in an honest and mature way which stands as alternative to allegedly 'traditional' values. SGs to me are not just great people, but powerful icons that also embody this spirit. Each of them are an Isis, a Hera, a Cybele, a Mary Magdelene; they are a source of inspiration, enlightment and hope.
On a slightly different note it also reminds me that although I am a happy enough single guy with plenty of stuff in my life to keep me occupied, I know that my life won't be properly fulfilled without my own female counterpart. A queen to anoint me as king. Or something.
Part of this tangent has been finally reading The Templar Revelation (on which some of the Da Vinci code is based). Although the authors are a little sensationalist and must be taken with a pinch of salt, they do a good job of joining the dots between the Isis cults of latter-day Egypt to quasi-Christian gnosticism, which in turn has relevance to the fervour and devotion shown in the Middle Ages by communities in France and elsewhere to 'black madonna' idols.
Reading between the lines, if any credence can be given to the Bibilcal Passion at all, then it seems likely that Mary Magdalene was the Isis to the big J's Osiris - who was also a dying and rising god, but who was also nothing without his spell-casting female counterpart. In fact most 'pagan' religious mystery traditions have women as equal (if not superior) counterparts to the men, and that kings and priests were anointed or given their power by the presiding queen or priestess.
Not that I am a great expert on the history of feminism but to me it's abundantly clear that women have been fighting not for an equality they never had before, but for an equality which in many ways they *used* to have but which was stolen from them many years past.
To me this site (putting the commercial overtones to one side) manages to capture some of this spirit. Not in a annoying 'grrrl power' kind of way but in an honest and mature way which stands as alternative to allegedly 'traditional' values. SGs to me are not just great people, but powerful icons that also embody this spirit. Each of them are an Isis, a Hera, a Cybele, a Mary Magdelene; they are a source of inspiration, enlightment and hope.
On a slightly different note it also reminds me that although I am a happy enough single guy with plenty of stuff in my life to keep me occupied, I know that my life won't be properly fulfilled without my own female counterpart. A queen to anoint me as king. Or something.
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Women have deffinitely been marginalized throughout official history, though I tend to think that the smart ones still managed to figure out ways to retain considerable power over their men...
But then again I'm a big ol' softy, so...