{"id":3336,"date":"2012-11-02T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2012-11-03T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:22:02","slug":"god-the-father-and-god-the-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3336","title":{"rendered":"God the Father and God the Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my friend Catherine\u2019s website, Catholic Crone<\/a>.\u00a0 This was part of a discussion on the violence in the Psalms<\/a>.\u00a0 Catherine gives a link to the website of An Exchange Between Peter O\u2019Leary and Alicia Ostriker<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and quotes Alicia in her post:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I \u201cbelieve\u201d anything, I believe that the being we call God the Father swallowed God the Mother in prehistory, and that she\u2019s still there, inside, waiting to be delivered. Which is to say: I believe God is pregnant with his exiled, mute, amnesiac, repressed feminine side. Pregnant and in labor. Pregnant and in pain, for I believe our human pain is God\u2019s labor pain, and that we can all collectively be midwives bringing the goddess back into consciousness. Madness? Or metaphor?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like the metaphor but it leaves out the part about Goddess being primal for our first one or two million years.\u00a0 During that time we lived in small foraging bands, and food was given to us out of the abundance of our Great Mother, the Earth.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until people (probably women) discovered agriculture, which of course was hailed as a wonderful thing that would make everybody’s lives more comfortable and easier.\u00a0 Like many wonderful things initially held to be positive breakthroughs, the downside of agriculture didn\u2019t show itself for at least a few thousand years.\u00a0 Personally, I believe that being able to control the process of growing food and creating surpluses shifted the balance from living harmoniously with Nature to trying to control natural processes.\u00a0 It\u2019s at that point that God grew large and brash and aggressive and swallowed Goddess, who gradually disappeared almost entirely from human memory.\u00a0 I do agree with the idea that God feels our pain, though he\/she\/it\/they don\u2019t save us from the consequences of our actions.
\nThe image of those millions of years when Mother Goddess reigned supreme comes from a wonderful book: \u201cRebalancing the World: Why Women Belong and Men Compete and How to Restore the Ancient Equilibrium.<\/a>\u201d by Carol Lee Flinders.\u00a0 One of my blog posts is on the Values of Belonging<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From my friend Catherine\u2019s website, Catholic Crone.\u00a0 This was part of a discussion on the violence in the Psalms.\u00a0 Catherine gives a link to the website of An Exchange Between Peter O\u2019Leary and Alicia Ostriker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and quotes Alicia in her … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}