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Igel

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5. And yet some of the earliest totems
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 08:10 AM
Sep 2015

and probably earliest religious beliefs were matriarchy-affirming and women-centered.

Odd that men would make up and impose religions over a matriarchal civilization to continue what I guess would have to be called their "continued marginalization and oppression through limits on their access to power."

I guess we could hypothesize that all matriarchal religions were, like women today, nurturing, kind, and compassionate. That, however, would be stereotypical and far into sexist territory because not all women were like that. Even the Quechua goddess Pachamama was reformed under Catholic and modern thought from a fairly bloodthirsty tyrant to a gentle, much more compassionate deity (sorry for the non-PCism in bowing to the ugly truth).

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