As one modern scholar summarizes, “as patriarchal religions grew in prominence, goddess worship was suppressed” . In some cases the suppression was literal and violent – the Babylonian creation epic tells how the storm god Marduk slays Tiamat, the great primeval Mother Goddess of chaos. In that myth, Tiamat’s corpse is fashioned into heaven and earth, symbolizing a new divine order. Feminist interpretations argue this story was written “to demonstrate the death of the Goddess and the rise of the God,” with Tiamat’s grotesque fate portrayed in ways meant “to discredit women” and justify the domination of female “others” in society . In myth as in history, the “rise of the father-god” went hand-in-hand with the subjugation of female powers, both divine and human.
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As one modern scholar summarizes, “as patriarchal religions grew in prominence, goddess worship was suppressed” . In some cases the suppression was literal and violent – the Babylonian creation epic tells how the storm god Marduk slays Tiamat, the great primeval Mother Goddess of chaos. In that myth, Tiamat’s corpse is fashioned into heaven and earth, symbolizing a new divine order. Feminist interpretations argue this story was written “to demonstrate the death of the Goddess and the rise of the God,” with Tiamat’s grotesque fate portrayed in ways meant “to discredit women” and justify the domination of female “others” in society . In myth as in history, the “rise of the father-god” went hand-in-hand with the subjugation of female powers, both divine and human.
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