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lt toward the dominator model of the bronze age kurgan horse invaders who shattered the matriarchal peace forever and imposed the dire death worshipping patriarchy we ve lived under ever since eisler s book was based on the work of marija gimbutas an archaeologist born in lithuania who opened new sites in eastern europe and used her findings to reinterpret previously uncovered material i read gimbutas work hungrily grateful for a female interpreter who cast new light in a field dominated by males though i hopefully followed the prodigiously documented arguments she made for an old europe that worshipped the goddess many of the images she used very often of artifacts she herself uncovered by digging never added up to the same sum for me as much as i wanted to be i did not find myself completely persuaded more recently gimbutas interpretive leaps have been seriously queried by other scientists not always male gravettian venus still i loved the sheer number of female figures that had lain in the earth for millennia there are no doubt many more waiting to be uncovered what i did not love was that these goddesses had no heads or if they did no faces many are so obese that i cannot imagine a female living in the late ice age could look like that without being kept confined in a cave and force fed bonbons for a lifetime and would women no matter how matriarchal never appreciatively model the image of a male love partner as for the fundamental power of the fecund female all animal life closest to us emerges from the same door still people living so close to the wild would never fail to notice that fertility in most animals and certainly in mammals like the beautiful lions and bison is a two way engagement and that unfucked females do not bear ancient people figured out the precession of the moon they were hardly unobservant nor as the drawings so beautifully attest stupid that many ancient female deities and powers are associated with bulls or snakes makes perfect sense to me just yesterday i saw a rattlesnake rising alongside a boulder slowly deliberately and gracefully seeking prey in a cleft of rock it was a perfect image of phallus the beautiful word for an erect penis chauvet horses breathtakingly powerful goddesses exist in many ancient mythologies yet even in many of the places in which the goddesses are still worshipped i see no evidence that living breathing women and their children were also revered or treated at best with anything other than casual brutality instead they have far too often been raped abused murdered a father cannot know a child is his the way a mother indisputably knows what child is hers the happiest see their own faces in the child especially if it lives long enough but males of many species kill their rivals offspring a father never really knows if a child carries his own selfish genes or not a shockingly high number of deaths of women in india is fiery houses set afire acid thrown a study in maryland within the past decade found that the greatest cause of the deaths of pregnant women in the u s next to organic complications of pregnancy that still persist in an age of social and medical advancement however politically compromised is homicide to me the ancient female images have more than a whiff of the revolting taint of snuff pornography if the urge to perpetuate one s own genetic package drives so much of nature when could a goddess a female image of life have ever subdued the rampant river god in the blood of the human species why when surrounded by such lovingly drawn portrait heads in which one can read the individual traits of a horse or a male and female lion hunting together and the bull so nearby would the one human figure amid the riches of chauvet a female lack a head i do not believe in the patriarchs vicious sky god nor have i ever forgiven his benighted hateful believers especially the females but i am not a convert of the goddess i didn t quite get it then that like so many of my contemporaries i was searching for the feminine face of god i still am i want godhead in my image not a man s not a bursting headless blowup doll not a harridan or witch not a sorrowful passive receptacle the one goddess who comes closest is guanyin but i do not even begin to truly understand compassion i also realize only of late that my searching is clouded by the mythologies of the culture in which i was raised western positivism american puritanism and yes the godforsaken patriarchy my search has always been obscured by the shadow of plymouth rock i expect things of my goddess kickass power creative intelligence deep wisdom just like the best women i know she would prevent the murder of innocents or at least give us a clue as to why without even knowing it i have expected her to be as literal as the puritan s god no wonder i haven t found her yet mama grizzly perhaps i can take heart from a new generation of feminists who take the sacred image of the cave bear seriously projecting a renewed power and vitality and who are both spiritual and commonsense practical they call themselves mama grizzlies or maybe not so where is my goddess if she is in my image what aspect of it if i am not to literalize her how can i see her i m not sure i ever will but when i look at the animals of chauvet i feel wonder and awe rising the animals hunt they battle they run they are living many are animals the people of the ardèche river valley would have hunted and killed they would be eaten by the hunters and their community some like the lions might kill the hunters the technical skill of the artists and i am a skilled enough artist in my own right to appreciate it fully is greater than my own at rendering the personality spirit and being of an animal though i am often inspired to try i feel the same wonder when i see wild animals on the desert trail near my home gila monster deer peccary and i feel dread one does not touch the gila monster the javelinas are large dangerously short sighted and sharp tusked and anger easily when their young are running with the band one does well to admire the rattlesnake from a safe distance and you never want to step on one we live in what the tibetan buddhists call meat bodies life carries no guarantees whatsoever but it is magnificent i am female and want to project my feelings of awe toward a female way of seeing the world i would expect males to look toward a male and both to take delight in the other perhaps eros is both my god and goddess a much earlier primeval eros than the chubby cherub with the bow was darker more shadowy one of the protogenoi or firstborn of the cosmos who emerged out of chaos long before the appearance of aphrodite who was later reckoned his mother among the protogenoi gender seems to matter less their issue if any are not necessarily created through coitus the scant textual mentions are vague sappho called eros the limb loosener she may have been referring to the shuddering petite morte of orgasm eros also surely appears in the typhonic imperatives of childbirth the diminishment and disappearence of boundaries between self and other in all unforeseen moments of deep connection as when one comes eye to eye with a wild animal and the disentanglement of spark from clay in death will i ever find my goddess would i even know if i did at this point i very much doubt it the best i can do like my ancient brothers and sisters at humanity s dawn is to look make art live love and die for a sample critique of the chauvet venus hypothesis http accuca conectia es czuchner010701 htm i obtained my doctorate at pacifica graduate institute which houses the opus archives the repository of maria gimbutas library as well as that of joseph campbell eventually it will house that of james hillman the most prominent post jungian depth psychologist and of my own academic advisor christine downing a prominent religious scholar and writer participant in the birth of the goddess movement of the 70s and 80s 2 comments posted in uncategorized posted by daedala june 14 2010 like my life depended on it xyante and i are in a fearful time of transition waiting for our house to sell before we can move on to our next home after going through so many underworld transits in the last ten years there is something different about this one mythically there is something about limbo that is worse than hell for ten years we ve invested our identity in our home near the ocean that s not the problem we ve moved on in intention to the next which will be in the sonoran desert we put a powerful effort into the sweat equity we ve done ceremony to thank the house and bless it for the next people who will live in it and moved out but not on no one can quite understand why the house in such an amazing location has not sold yet that s another bigger story in a chain of stories in this huge time of transition for so many meanwhile for us everything is on hold and we feel powerless the waiting is hideous there is plenty of time for every fearful fantasy of what could go badly wrong to wrench our guts even after all we ve been through and not merely survived but found a way to flourish afterward the fear is here what oh what is this all about we re lucky wonderful generous friends have gifted us the use of an art studio where we can live in another beautiful town down the coast funny though we ve been given such a gift it s hard to use it without being distracted and drained by doubt and fear but since i can t think of anything else to do i ve been making art as if my life depended on it i ve made a series of paintings 10 in the last six or eight weeks i ve been going as fast as i can these paintings incorporate collage glued on images so i don t have to slow down much to render i can just paint and slap things on paint some more and move on to the next i m trying to keep moving not to get caught in judgment on the work just doing it sometimes a pause comes of a day or days when i have to let the art energy well up again at the same time i can t let it be stalled entirely so i simply start something waiting for some kind of inspiration i can follow now i have enough paintings stacked up literally they are on paper and piled on the studio table that i can see some connections i embarked on these hoping they would speak to me and they have a bit still i can feel judgment creeping in pretty facile lightweight all the deadly words the last few days have been building into one of those fear storms where i feel myself getting wound increasingly tightly air squeezing out not as dramatic as a panic attack thankfully but bad seeing every way we can fail and all the most dire possible consequences playing out endlessly in my overworked imagination so i picked up a painting i had started and tried to work as i had for the previous few days i had an image i wanted to use for hephaistos about time my tutor god made an appearance i was musing about our encounters with hephaistos s steel on the dark street in atlanta our right hands cut open xyante on the operating table exactly two years later we survived but what oh what is this all about wounded god composition helps yes all right pretty i know but i can t help it i compose elegantly all right so sue me want to make something of it want to step outside right now and settle it huh i wanted two or three faces hephaistos a golden robot girl one of the artificial forge assistants he created for himself and pandora the first woman created from clay i found the images i wanted but three overwhelmed the composition too much so hephaistos and maria the robot woman from fritz lang s metropolis every robot is hephaistean a made creature with its own intelligence and archetypal power an expression of the gods who inspire us to make things on earth the two heads went onto a fiery background like the fire god s lava like forge fire i wanted this image dark to put there my dark feelings and the pain that is visiting the space between the heads asked for something i ve been working with cups in the tarot the symbol of emotions of love these cups would be forged in hephaistos fire filled with wounding surging with blood and molten iron both heads would be golden hephaistos s dark and ominous maria s brighter the cups suspended between them xyante looked at that moment and said how maria s face looked like the moon to him so i made her silvery white instead which called for a pale transparent shimmering blue around her which i glazed over the yellow orange and black to cool the fire i knifed on white gesso between the cups to set a ground on which to paint the blood and iron but then the painting was suddenly finished the white streams became a flood of cosmic energy its meeting place a newborn galaxy only one other painting in this series startled me as much a painting of athena that too started with a field of lava then burgeoning clouds and warm milky light around the goddess i tried to make it many other things but the clouds wanted precedence and form a pale golden background that brightly silhouettes nike the goddess of victory held in the palm of athena the goddess of war strategy weaving wisdom the sister of hephaistos xyante and i lay in bed just at dawn this morning talking about our fear usually only one of us is afflicted at any given time not so now we talked about the paintings like everything else each of our work seems somehow to belong to the other as well and we can sometimes read our joined fate in the art we create between us we wove a mythic net a new story these two paintings are about creation about what we will create literally a new life on new land the fires are still bright the alchemy still in progress the land of our new life is just being formed too hot to tread soon enough we will be able to walk on it and start fresh the gods are with us 2010 daedala click to explore larger images 1 comment posted in art creativity myth symbolism tags creative process creativity fritz lang s metropolis hephaistos myth mythology symbolism wound and jewel posted by daedala september 3 2009 the four hephs you re probably familiar with the hero s journey the monomyth famously described by joseph campbell monomyth meaning that it appears all over the world in virtually all mythologies some people may even think it s the only myth it s the story of the journey of the hero who begins in innocence ignorant of the call that awaits him he leaves home under its irresistible compulsion faces great obstacles and commits great deeds most often with the help of unforeseen allies yet must face the greatest trials alone in the deep black forest triumphing in the end and returning home wiser my friend bluenomada told me one day that she got the insight which felt almost like a smack upside the head that i don t live the hero s journey i stay in the forest she lives a different kind of myth one of being alive to the wisdoms of the forest plant and animal powers and 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