The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85). |
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... divine Mother and her son ( or , as in the worship of Demeter and Kore , her daughter ) . It of course makes eminent sense that the earliest depiction of divine power in human form should have been female rather than male . When our ...
... divine Mother and her son ( or , as in the worship of Demeter and Kore , her daughter ) . It of course makes eminent sense that the earliest depiction of divine power in human form should have been female rather than male . When our ...
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... divine child . Similarly , a terra - cotta head of a bull with human eyes from 4000 B.C.E. Macedonia suggests a masked protagonist of some other Neolithic ritual and myth . Some of these masked figures seem to represent cosmic powers ...
... divine child . Similarly , a terra - cotta head of a bull with human eyes from 4000 B.C.E. Macedonia suggests a masked protagonist of some other Neolithic ritual and myth . Some of these masked figures seem to represent cosmic powers ...
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... divine wisdom and revelation . From the perspective of that earlier reality , the orders of this pow- erful upstart God Jehovah that Eve may not eat from a sacred tree ( either of knowledge or divine wisdom or of life ) would have been ...
... divine wisdom and revelation . From the perspective of that earlier reality , the orders of this pow- erful upstart God Jehovah that Eve may not eat from a sacred tree ( either of knowledge or divine wisdom or of life ) would have been ...
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