I'm thankful for the empowering knowledge of the Goddess that was banned simply because of a king's politics in 7th century BCE Jerusalem. I'm thankful for the knowledge of the Goddesses of Mecca who's temples were destroyed and priestesses murdered by Muhammad's army in the 7th century C.E. I'm thankful for the knowledge that before the 4th century, Rome was ruled by Goddesses too.
I'm thankful knowing that from ancient Mesopotamia to the ancient Aztecs, all civilizations on earth worshipped a Goddess of all creation. All of them. Yep, I checked. The entire world worshipped a female creator.
I'm thankful knowing that the earliest undisputed depiction of a human in history was that of the Mother Goddess, 40,000 years ago, the Venus of Hohle Fels. And the oldest known ceramic figure in the world, the Venus of Dolni Vestonice, 29,000 BCE – 25,000 BCE. And the first known author of the written word in human history, Enheduanna, High Priestess of the Goddess Inanna. (Girl crush!)
I'm thankful for the scientific knowledge that biologically, females were first on earth, and males were a mutation of females that evolved into a separate sex, who in many species have steadily been losing genes and are very gradually going extinct (including Y chromosome humans, according to most scientists!)
(At a time when some people still believe women were made from a man's rib, it's good to remember that humanity was made from a woman's womb.)
Since the beginning of humanity, God really was a Woman. This was the first religion. Our roots, which all humans share. If we truly love ourselves and humanity, we'd honor and respect our ancestral roots, no?
I'm thankful that despite all the intentional erasure and male appropriation of the original Goddess from later patriarchal religions, that there is enough archaeology out there to put things in perspective, no matter how many times Isis tries to destroy our temples, no matter how many men looted our pyramids, no matter how many power-crazed kings or fascist leaders censor or enslave us. Despite all the raping and pillaging... We're still here, and we know our history. And it is Divine, indeed.
(To those offended by history or science, please direct all anti feminist hate mail to my masters degree.)
:)
11:37 a.m. - 2020-02-08