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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... story of Atlantis is actually the garbled folk mem- ory , not of a lost Atlantic continent , but of the Minoan ... story of the Garden of Eden is also clearly based on folk memories . The Garden is an allegorical description of the ...
... story of Atlantis is actually the garbled folk mem- ory , not of a lost Atlantic continent , but of the Minoan ... story of the Garden of Eden is also clearly based on folk memories . The Garden is an allegorical description of the ...
Page 84
... stories what is good or evil , what should be imitated or abhorred , and what should be ac- cepted as divinely ordained , not only by oneself but by all others . Through ceremonies and rituals , people also partake in these stories . As ...
... stories what is good or evil , what should be imitated or abhorred , and what should be ac- cepted as divinely ordained , not only by oneself but by all others . Through ceremonies and rituals , people also partake in these stories . As ...
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... story of Eve's and Adam's fall from par- adise.38 For it is the serpent who counsels woman to disobey Jehovah and to herself eat from the tree of knowledge , the counsel that to this day is still said to doom humanity to eternal ...
... story of Eve's and Adam's fall from par- adise.38 For it is the serpent who counsels woman to disobey Jehovah and to herself eat from the tree of knowledge , the counsel that to this day is still said to doom humanity to eternal ...
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