V-2nd - 4?

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sat Jul 31 12:27:16 CDT 2010


Seems like he's always actively seeking heresies, always giving  
examples of morally upright heretics. Of course, there's also plenty  
of morally inverted heretics as well—kinda goes with the territory.  
Still, it's the Geli Tripping's that manage to navigate themselves  
through the author's moral mazes with some sort of dignity.
On Jul 31, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> No, it wouldn't, would it? Does he also Stencilize the divine
> masculine, would you say? Or does he just demonize it?
>
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Is P Stencilizing the divine feminine? It certainly wouldn't be an  
>> isolated
>> example.
>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>>
>>> Recently came across an interesting essay, "The Case of the Missing
>>> Goddess: Plurality, Power and Prejudice in Reconstructions of  
>>> Malta's
>>> Neolithic Past" by Kathryn Rountree in the Journal of Feminist  
>>> Studies
>>> in Religion, Vol 19, No. 2 (Fall, 2003). The author argues that a
>>> strong cult of the mother goddess existed on Malta long before the
>>> Knights of St. John showed up. All this fascination with the mother,
>>> the mysterious other, the feminine V.... How much did P know about
>>> Malta? Is any of this serendipitous?
> --
> "liber enim librum aperit."




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