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From the author of the bestselling "Art and Physics" comes a new book with breathtaking implications. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects, including neurology, anthropology, history, and religion, "Leonard Shlain" argues that the development of alphabetic literacy itself reinforced the human brain's left hemisphere -- linear, abstract, predominantly masculine -- at the expense of its right -- holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" charts the connection between alphabetic literacy and monotheism; patriarchy and misogyny, and tracks the correlations between the rise and fall of literacy and the status of women in society, mythology, and religion.
Using Ireland as a case study, this book provides an account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilizations and analyzes its implications for today's women and today's Catholic Church. From the age of Eve to the age of Brigit to the age of Mary, the author traces the rise of patriarchial consciousness. Mary Condren is a former editor of Student Christian Movement Publications and the author of articles on men written for feminist liberation theory. The author has taught in the Women in Religion Program at Harvard University.
Do You Know...
where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from?
why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages?
how the custom of kissing began?
whether there really was a female pope?
why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince?
The answers to these and countless other intriguing questions are given in this compulsively readable, feminist encyclopedia. Twenty-five years in preparation, this unique, comprehensive sourcebook focuses on mythology anthropology, religion, and sexuality to uncover precisely what other encyclopedias leave out or misrepresent. The Woman's Encyclopedia presents the fascinating stories behind word origins, legends, superstitions, and customs. A browser's delight and an indispensable resource, it offers 1,350 entries on magic, witchcraft, fairies, elves, giants, goddesses, gods, and psychological anomalies such as demonic possession; the mystical meanings of sun, moon, earth, sea, time, and space; ideas of the soul, reincarnation, creation and doomsday; ancient and modern attitudes toward sex, prostitution, romance, rape, warfare, death and sin, and more.
Tracing these concepts to their prepatriarchal origins, Barbara G. Walker explores a "thousand hidden pockets of history and custom in addition to the valuable material recovered by archaeologists, orientalists, and other scholars."
Not only a compendium of fascinating lore and scholarship, The Woman's Encyclopedia is a revolutionary book that offers a rare opportunity for both women and men to see our cultural heritage in a fresh light, and draw upon the past for a more humane future.
Attempts have also been made to correct the popular belief that Eve was a temptress who tempted Adam into eating the fruit despite the fact that according to Genesis 3:6, after she ate the fruit herself, she then "gave some to her husband and he ate."
This simple, and by any other measure, generous and unselfish act of sharing has, in a list assiduously compiled by Jean Higgins [see BIBLIOGRAPHY], been variously interpreted over the centuries by Biblical scholars and commentators to mean that Eve "tempted, beguiled, lured, corrupted, persuaded, taught, counseled, suggested, urged, used wicked persuasion, led into wrongdoing, proved herself an enemy, used guile and cozening, tears and lamentations, to prevail upon Adam."
Prostitution was by no means restricted to females. In Paul's letters, for example, and especially the first letter to the Corinthians, he uses the term . This refers to pagan temple male prostitutes in Corinth, and warnings that Christians cannot indulge in homosexual practices with these men and still be considered devout Christians, as they were serving two masters - paganism and Christ. It is this passage among others referring to that some Christians have wrongly interpreted as 'God's' dislike of homosexuals as we would know them today. But, of course, the term refers to homosexual prostitution rather than a normal loving homosexual relationship.
Someone "got" to her. I agree with you completely, as I have corresponded with and read all the threads this member wrote.....and something is definitely different now.
as everyone else, but wonder if we arent constantly discussing and recognizing the symptoms and not the root of the problem
As of 2010, over 1.6 billion or about 23.4% of the world population are Muslims.
There are an estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the world, according to Vatican figures.
Little is known about the Cloutier ancestors. Most genealogists agree that Zacharie Cloutier was the grandson of Nicolas Cloutier of Perche. The most common variation of the surname is Cloustier. Most sources state the surname was originally given to a person who crafted and sold nails, coming from the Latin word "clavus" meaning nail ("clou" in French). Some descendants of Cloutier who immigrated to the United States from Canada changed their surnames to Nailer in this respect.[15] However, some have pointed out the strong etymological ties with Clotaire, the name of three kings in the Merovingian dynasty of France. Others note that it may be an homage to Saint Cloud, also of the Merovingian dynasty.
Originally posted by NoRegretsEver
Now before I take a nice needed break, and if you stayed with me this long, here is a little something before I go
Here is a riddle:
What does
Marcheline Bertrand (Angelina Jolies mother)
Angelina Jolie
Shania Twain
Celine Dion
Madonna Ciccione
Hillary Clinton
Chelsea Clinton
Beyonce and Solange Knowles
Avril Lavigne
and Camilla Dutchess of Cornwall have in common?
Zacharie Cloutier.
Who is also a part of the merovingian bloodline.
Little is known about the Cloutier ancestors. Most genealogists agree that Zacharie Cloutier was the grandson of Nicolas Cloutier of Perche. The most common variation of the surname is Cloustier. Most sources state the surname was originally given to a person who crafted and sold nails, coming from the Latin word "clavus" meaning nail ("clou" in French). Some descendants of Cloutier who immigrated to the United States from Canada changed their surnames to Nailer in this respect.[15] However, some have pointed out the strong etymological ties with Clotaire, the name of three kings in the Merovingian dynasty of France. Others note that it may be an homage to Saint Cloud, also of the Merovingian dynasty.
en.wikipedia.org...
Im sure you all will do the rest of the research
Be back in a few days, NRE.