The Divine Feminine-
Divine Goddeses.
However, not all the Goddesses in Sumer and
Mesopotamia who were worshipped, were of the Ascended levels of Divine
Light but they were from the ranks of the technological advanced extra
terrestrial beings who came down to earth from other planets at that
time and were worshipped as Goddesses by the more primitive
races. You can read about these beings in the Zecharia Sitchen books.
In
past eras peoples of ancient cultures prayed and performed
rituals to the Divine Feminine in the form of Divine
Goddesses. This was in the era around 2,000 years ago and
preceding that during the Neolithic era, when they they
worshipped, "The
Great Mother Goddesss" and other Goddesses in their fertility rites.
During this time, the
feminine was recognized as sacred and it was the time before the Judeo
Christian
religions and Buddhism smote them from their writings and belief, apart
from Mother
Mary in Catholicism and in Buddhism Quan Yin and the DivineTaras. Since
that time, we have seen
that the religions and culures of the world have been largely
patriarchial, male dominated. For the past two thousand years the
patriarchial religions introduced systems of patriarchal lineage within
most cultures. Prior to this it is understood that the culures
were more either matrilineal or partnership type cultures. Even in
India where Goddesses were still
worshipped, we saw a patriarchial caste system, however the feminine
was
still worshipped in their temples in the form of Parvati,Lakskmi, Sita,
Saraswati, Kali, Aditi and others.
As Riane Eisler says in her book "The Chalice and the Blade,"page
94, regarding the Hebrew religions,
"Although the Hebrew
word Elohim has both feminine and
masculine roots, (incidently explaining how in
Genesis both
woman and man could be created i Elohim's image),
all other
appellations of the deity such as King, Lord, and
Father and
shepherd are specifically male."
The denial of the feminine and therefore woman in divinity, is
remarkable in view that much Hebrew mythology was drawn from
Mesopotanian and Canaanite myths. Also even after Hebrew
invasions, the people of Canaan, continued to worship the Goddess.
Around three thousand years ago, in the Mediteranean area, Crete fell
somewhere around 4300 - 4200 B.C.E. It was a time when the ancient
world was invaded by wave after wave of barbarian male dominated
peoples and the Goddess was relegated to the role of mother or wife of
the male Gods or made Goddesses of war and other titles. In Anatolia,
where the people
of Catal Huyuk lived in peace for thousands of years, the Hittites
invaded and that civilization fell as well to the warrior tribes.
In Europe the destruction of the Neolithic
societies occurred around the
5th millenium B.C.E with the invasion of the warlike Kurgans or Aryans,
who swarmed down into Europe from the Asiatic and European north
east . The development of metal weapons played a big part in these
invasions. So throughout the ancient world, the peaceful agrarian
civilizations fell and the worship of the divine feminine and respect
for the Goddess and women disappeared. Even in the Bible Mary Magdalene
who was Jesus
partner was made a prostitute. However within the Gnostic gospels they
speak of her differently. In the Gospel of Philip it says:
"There were
three women who always walked with the Lord,
Mary his mother, her sister and the Magdalene, the one who
is called his companion.His sister, his mother and his
companion
were each a Mary."from :The Gospel of Thomas, James
M.
Robinson, Nag Hammadhi
Library in English. pge 145, 1988.
According to the Gospel of Philip, there was
some antipathy between the
disciple Peter and Mary Magdalene, so the early church fathers who
wrote the Christian New Testament delegated her to being a prostitute,
the fallen woman.
In the current era we have seen the awakening
in the west to the
Goddess and the divine feminine and we need this balance to maintain
evolution and creativity and compassion in our societies, the flow of
the balanced Yin and Yang energies of the Great Tao.
However in this year of 2021 it is a concern when we see new gender
ideologies and ignorant people now beginning to make all humans
genderless and the names of mother, father, wife etc., as being non
politically correct. One may ask; "is the divine feminine again being
made
an item of the past and with them the male gender as well into a
transhumanistic robotic creation?"
Written by Amethyst
Pallas Athena
Queen of
Light
Quan
Yin
Copyright: 2021
- www.ascendwithlight.com
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