tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444812044935242643.post5803877640168102379..comments2024-03-20T08:10:03.837+00:00Comments on Xcavate! Dorset's Community Archaeologist: Divine Women BBC2Community Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03314193782155350106noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444812044935242643.post-42157581705973067532012-04-18T15:45:12.675+01:002012-04-18T15:45:12.675+01:00Well, having looked up the dieties you mention I a...Well, having looked up the dieties you mention I am struck by these points:<br />Danu - a water goddess; Proto-Indo-European 'danu=fluvial water or running water.<br />[So many references to water are associated with a goddess from much earlier they are to many to mention]<br />Brigid - said to have 2 oxen and healing powers.<br />[Oxen are seen at Catal Huyok etc. in association with the goddess + the healing of waters]<br />Badb - predicts death - has 2 sisters Macha & Morrigan.<br />[The death aspects includes also the 'maiden' and the child; also the three witches]<br /><br />If they are not connected by thousands of years of development from a core theology I give up.Community Archaeologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03314193782155350106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444812044935242643.post-57441933408358342372012-04-18T14:18:14.806+01:002012-04-18T14:18:14.806+01:00Dave, I think that you disagree with something I h...Dave, I think that you disagree with something I have not said. I do not think that all 'cults' where women are portrayed are representing the same goddess, in their eyes. They are just manifestations of an earlier theology. Look at Christianity, Judaism and Islam - basically the same religion but now fragmented by later schism, both as a body and internally. Outside of fanatics no one would think that they are praying to a different god. They are the 'people of the book'. The goddesses are individual and possibly totemic, but like Kybele they are seen as the guardian of the dead and goddess of fertility and wild life. A Homeric hymn is to the nameless 'Mother of the Gods':<br /><br />Mother of all the gods<br />the mother of mortals<br />Sing of her<br />for me, Muse,<br />daughter of mighty Zeus,<br />a clear song<br />She loves<br />the clatter of rattles<br />the din of kettle drums<br /><br />Humans are humans and do have universal attributes - they just express them in many ways, now and in the past.Community Archaeologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03314193782155350106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444812044935242643.post-13472223467149010222012-04-17T17:21:04.291+01:002012-04-17T17:21:04.291+01:00I disagree. The figurines of women showing their i...I disagree. The figurines of women showing their insides remind me most of a toy my sister had - The Visible Woman - http://www.amazon.com/The-Visible-Woman-Model-Kit/dp/B004ZEUNJA<br />Figurines can be play dolls, instructional dolls, porn, or any number of things other than goddesses.<br />And most cultures I'm aware of do not have souls returning to a mother figure - even where they have a mother goddess. They either get shunted off into a anteroom of existence, hang around to annoy the relatives, or get condemned to eternal boredom. <br />Where mother goddesses exist, they are often many and not one idealised: Gaia, Demeter and Kybele were not aspects of the same goddess but rival antagonistic cults (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Greek_goddesses) , as was Danu, Brigid, Badb... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_goddesses They were totemic and individual, not expressions universal attributes.David Sankeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12411162507439820514noreply@blogger.com