Goddesses (was: Violence ON Demand)

[David Morris]

When you two refer to "The Goddess Myth" it seems to me you fail to 
recognize the mutitude of goddesses and instead seek examine some 
intelectual synthesis.  Different goddesses have so many different 
qualities.  The present-day Virgin is "real" to multitudes around the world 
today.  She might be seen as a watered-down version of a more potenet 
predecessor, but there were many predecessors.  I suspect this is what jody 
means by pointing to the slightly-red herring "origin."

David Morris

>>>jody:
>>>-If the myth of The Goddess is not a *genuine* myth, i.e., something spun 
>>>out of anthropological wishfulfilment and the 20-20 hindsight of the 
>>>nineteenth century, well after the end of irreversible Dreamtime, does 
>>>that make it a myth of a myth? a "second order" myth in an attempt to 
>>>"correct" certain psycho-social-cultural deficits perceived by a 
>>>self-aware, and rapidly becoming, self-defining, elite? If so, is reading 
>>>V. a third order embodiment?

> >kai:
> > "yes", three times ... yet another question: is this third order 
>embodiment closer to the origin than that second order myth of a myth?
>
>jody:
>Good question! It probably depends on the reader, but "origin" is the real 
>albino in this word pile. What/who is "the origin" of The Goddess Myth?
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