In 1976 Professor Merlin Stone put together some of her work on early religion in the book ‘When God Was A Woman’ describing how patriarchal values influenced the development of the three Abrahamic religions and lead to the suppression, destruction or ignoring of earlier cultures. Many ancient figures of women have been found from the Late Stone Age on, they are [...]
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When God Was A Woman
Posted in Beliefs, Books, Mythology, tagged "When God Was A Woman", Catholicism, Gnosticism, Judaism, Mother Goddess, Professor Merlin Stone, Venus Figurine on February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sophia
Posted in Art, Beliefs, History, Imagery, Religion, tagged Christian Mysticism, Eastern Othodox Church, Gnosticism, History of religion, Philosophy, Russian Orthodoxy, Sophiology on May 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sophia is the Greek feminine metaphor for Divine wisdom and is celebrated in many legends and writings as the lowest form of the Holy Spirit, lesser than other parts of God’s ‘family’ because in legends she created the material world. The word Sophia is Greek for ‘wisdom’: Σoφíα In the Roman Catholic tradition, Sophia is replaced by Mary, Mother [...]
