08/17/2024
The ancient lunar priestesses were called virgins. “Virgin” does not mean a woman who has never had s*x with a man as the church says today. The Latin word “virgin” comes from the root “vir” meaning strength, power, powerful woman.. It applied to the goddesses who were called virgins not because of their purity, but because of their vigor, because of their independence.
Many women like Marie, Isis, Ishtar, Diana, Astarté, were called virgins, which was not a s*xual reference..
And all the great cultural heroes of the past, mythical or historical, were born of virgin mothers or powerful mothers:
Osiris, Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Dionysus, Jesus;
were all affirmed as children of the Great Mother, for her power comes from her.
But religions, when they ceased to be spiritual and became dogmas, tell differently, distorted.. And everyone’s been wondering how a “virgin” can get pregnant..
Christians could not conceive the Virgin Mary as a woman not dependent on man, that is, the notion that the woman was born from the rib of man, so, they invented the idea of “conceived no sin” to denigrate s*xuality and especially those women who do not they submitted themselves to the patriarchy.
Religions have distorted the meaning in s*xually pure, caste, never touched.
When Jeanne d’Arc, with her associations of witches, called herself La Pucelle d’Orléans, “the young,” “the Virgin,” the word retained part of its original pagan meaning of a strong and harmonious woman.
And that’s what is needed today, a meeting between man and woman without submission, but, the church, the conservatives, oppose.
But neither is the way out from radicalism, which only wants to change the Pope for a Mama, a Francis for a Francisca. That would be deepening the patriarchy. Besides, the issue is not only gender but classism, racism and other isms. That will be possible from the community alter.
We must reclaim the Great Mother, who is the Pachamama or Cosmic Mother, as a life-giver, who together with Pachakamak or Cosmic Father, as a life force, contain, sustain and maintain existence. One must leave religions and atheisms to regain spirituality.