Re: The eternal female: Worship of the mother goddess
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:28:02 -0500
Jack Linthicum wrote:
Stonehenge, Crete, Thera, pretty much a tourist's tour of the Bronze
Age, and earlier, cultures that honored or featured women.
But the author has missed the revelations about the Phaistos Disk.
The eternal female: Worship of the mother goddess
Thursday, 12 February 2009
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http://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=392606&Title=The%20eternal%20female:%20Worship%20of%20the%20mother%20goddess
and
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/a-fake-famous-disc/?apage=2
and
http://www.minervamagazine.com/phaistos.asp
Without digging into the references this reads like a feminist rewrite of the male version of ancient times neither of which should be considered reasonable or legitimate.
Read about women looking down on men. Which civilization does not include images of women? Looking down on or kept apart in the upper floors by the men? How can one tell the difference from the mosaic?
Yes women competing is bull jumping. Free women or slaves? Was it a competitive sport or a circus act? Were these bulls as in Spanish bull fights or were they trained to make the act more exciting?
How do we decide? Do we listen to the narrative created by eccentric Sir Arthur Evans? or do we look at what is in evidence and say we do not know?
Frankly the idea of Crete as central to trade is a bit far fetched if not ludicrous. There are many ways to sail the Med for trade. The simplest is following the coast port to port. The reason to make a major sea crossing is to get from north to south as in Greece to Egypt. The Greece to Egypt route is the only excuse to stop off in Crete. Tyre to Italy is another reason to stop off in Crete. The dating of these finds is such that there was nothing much of interest in Greece or Italy at the time.
Mycenae is not Greece. Mycenae is following the coast from Tyre. If you do not like Tyre, insert Sidon.
But because the narrative of the eccentric Evans has Crete as a great center of trade its "palaces" are considered modest instead of impoverished.
I can go on like this from each paragraph which is why I did not bother to quote it all.
The narrative of ancient history is largely the product of the romantic mind. Most people today buy into some romantic narrative or other. When Minoa cannot be discussed without reference to a male/female context by an eccentric ... you can as easily take Tomb Raider as an accurate view of women today. There is Angelia Jolie right up there as the equal of Han Solo.
But a culture which created mosaics of gods would never have created mosaics of women which did not depict down to earth reality. Thus speaks the narrative of Evans.
For any man reasonably passed puberty I ask if there is a single cultural image of women held by men which reflects reality. I can also reverse the question and ask it of women. We know there are none but Evans narrative governs Crete.
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