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Sjöö, Monica (1975). The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All. Bristol, England: Monica Sjöö. (Original pamphlet) Sjöö believed heterosexuality was an unnatural state imposed by patriarchy, and later in her life she enjoyed a number of intimate romantic relationships with women. (In the context of the 1980 essay by Adrienne Rich, " Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence".) However, after separating from her second husband, Andy Jubb, a composer, in the mid 1970s, Sjöö had an intense relationship with Keith Paton, a founder of the Alternative Socialist movement and, like Sjöö herself, a regular contributor to the alternative press, especially Peace News. Under Sjöö's influence, Paton changed his name to Motherson (or Mothersson). [23] The Great Cosmic Mother" also delves into the impact of Judeo-Christian traditions on the suppression of the feminine. The authors analyze the biblical narratives, highlighting the patriarchal biases and the demonization of female power. They shed light on how the rise of monotheistic religions marginalized goddess worship and led to the subjugation of women. a b Sjöö, Monica. "My Sons in the Spirit World (oil, 1989)". Monica Sjöö: An Online Retrospective. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016 . Retrieved 9 December 2017.

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The problem with this book (and its author, and her argument) is that a lot of her research, while fascinating, is weak and anecdotal, and has been contradicted by much of what has been learned in the last two or three decades of anthropological inquiry. Sjoo repeatedly conflates concepts, letting distinctions between matrilineal, matrifocal, and matriarchal blur, whenever it suits her agenda (and she does have a relentless, redundant, strident agenda). Her cultural relativism, while supported by the dominant, well-funded ideologues in academia (who still somehow insanely construe themselves as counter-cultural) just doesn't bear closer scrutiny. The idea that white males have some kind of monopoly (or superior faculty) for oppressing women, is just not born out by the historical record. For instance, many Plains Indians punished marital infidelity by mutilating the offending woman's face, removing her nose, and then parading her before the tribe and allowing all post-pubescent males to have their way with the unfaithful wife. Mor spent the mid-1970s in Taos, New Mexico. During this period she wrote and published three volumes of poetry, Bitter Root Rituals in WomanSpirit 1975, Mother Tongue 1977, and Winter Ditch (Second Porcupine Press, 1982). [3] The Great Cosmic Mother [ edit ]When Mor published The Great Cosmic Mother in 1987, the book met with immediate critical acclaim. It has never been out of print and remains on the curricula of many college and university Women's Studies and Mythology programs. [4] [5] It was considered an important reference books for students who studying ancient history and religion by the School Library Journal. [4] The book suggests that many of the ills of today, alienation, meaninglessness in our lives, huge wealth inequality and the disregard for human life and the quality of it other than for those with money, these problems are an inevitable result of those assumptions formed thousands of years ago. Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man - a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chasity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past…, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus - they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chasity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle - ‘the Maiden,’ ‘the Virgin’ - the word retained some of its original pagan sense of a strong and independent woman. The Moon Goddess was worshipped in orgiastic rites, being the divinity of matriarchal women free to take as many lovers as they choose. Women could ‘surrender’ themselves to the Goddess by making love to a stranger in her temple.”

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This is a fundamental and recurring pattern in nature: Life is a female environment in which the male appears, often periodically, and created by the female, to perform highly specialized tasks related to species reproduction and a more complex evolution.” But, when the cult of the male god was established, there must have been difficulty in explaining how he could be the giver of life to all creation—since the man, unlike the woman, cannot produce from his body either the child or the food for the child. The whole attitude of humans towards the God had to be altered—violently altered. There could not be that same vital biological and magical link (the I-Thou) between the child and the father, as there is between the child and its mother: two beings evolving in and from the same body, the same rhythms, the same dreams. From the religious point of view, this means the loss between the human and the divine of direct, continuous physical-emotional-spiritual relationship. Oneness is dualized, the “self” is isolated within, and the rest of the universe, including God, is displaced and objectified without. The evolutionary, protoplasmic connection between the experienced self and the All is broken, and the new relation becomes: I-the Other; or worse: I-It. The father is not of the same all-containing, all-infusing, shaping and nourishing substance, and so the relation between humans and the Father God becomes abstract and alienated, distant and moralistic. The” Straffon, Cheryl (1993). "Introduction". Pagan Cornwall: Land of the Goddess. Penzance, Cornwall: Meyn Mamvro. ISBN 9780951885925.

May 1993). "Going To Church: Breaking the Taboo – doing the unthinkable". Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. What these modern researchers are now “discovering” is something ancient women always knew. The warring dualisms of “matter vs. spirit,” the hostile antagonisms of “sexual body” versus “religious truth,” are recent patriarchal inventions, destructively forced on the world and the soul. They had no place at the beginning of things, for they are neither natural nor true.” Monica Sjöö Memorial Trust". Monica Sjöö. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007 . Retrieved 28 January 2018. Summer 1984). "The Bleeding Yew Mother and Pentre Ifan Cromlech" (PDF). Wood and Water. 2 (12): 6–8. Sjöö was highly critical of many of the ideas and personages of the New Age movement, including Alice Bailey, J. Z. Knight and "Ramtha", and Gene Roddenberry for some of the ideas behind Star Trek. [20] Reception [ edit ]

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Larsen, Eric (7 January 2011). "Some Thoughts on The Significance of "The First God" also titled "The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth" (pub. 1987) by Barbara Mor" (PDF). The Oliver Arts & Open Press. Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity's heritage. Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important text shows even more clearly that the religion of the Goddess--which is tied to the cycles of women's bodies, the seasons, the phases of the moon, and the fertility of the earth--was the original religion of all humanity. Berg, Anne; Moore, Liz (1972). Towards a Revolutionary Feminist Art. Bristol, England: Monica Sjöö.

Attracted by the Beat Movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mor lived and wrote in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Baja California, and Los Angeles before settling in San Diego to attend San Diego State University, where she became deeply involved with the Feminist Movement. She taught poetry, gave readings and lectures, and helped compile and edit a variety of poetry anthologies, as well as being Poetry Editor for WomanSpirit magazine. [2] Early work [ edit ] My TL;DR: The gist of this book is pretty much the same as the themes and overarching plot of Mad Max Fury Road

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