Epics of the Goddess
The objective of the Epics of the Goddess is to recognize the science underneath the evolution of religions following the six role process and the three formal operations. We illustrate the universal emotional process of transformation. This exhibit visually presents the six-role emotional sequence of the unconscious: stress, response, anxiety, defense, reversal, and compromise. Each sculpture represents an improvement in family relations following the three formal operations guiding to fairness, cooperation and mutual respect.
STRESS: MATRIARCHY IN MEXICO
Quatlique is a mother afraid of her daughter as her rival. She has her son, the Sun, kill his sister, the Moon, dismember her body. She further required life sacrifices to postpone the impending fifth destruction of the universe as predicted in the Aztec Calendar.
The Homeric Epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, present patriarchy domesticating matriarchy’s powerful women. Greece discovered mastery of men over women as the way of resolving domestic conflicts. Helen of Troy, presented as a Sphinx, ‘The fight and flight woman’, the woman who does not resolve conflicts, was a matriarch, who had ten lovers. Greek men confronted her and demanded that she choose one among them. She chose Menelaus of Sparta. But then she flew the coop with Paris of Troy. The Iliad is about 1000 ships of Greek men fighting a war to capture Helen of Troy, the run-away wife. The Odyssey is about a man fighting single handedly the power of women. Characteristically he had his sailors bind him on the mast of their boat, so he can listen to the sirens without yielding to temptation, their music and their magic. Penelope is the new role model, the loyal wife, one who respects the vows.
Response: THE DISCOVERY OF MASTERY
Penelope is the heroine of the second Homeric Epic, the Odyssey because she resisted the advances of multiple suitors. The Greek family as portrayed on Olympus was conflicted as men like Zeus pursued women, which upset his wife Hera. Greek tragedies have as titles the names of women.
ANXIETY: THE DISCOVERY OF COOPERATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, BY MEN CONTROLLING DESIRES.
The Upanishads present the Moon Goddess, the sacred cows, Kali, as powerful women commanding respect and awe. Shiva is portrayed stepping on a demon, his inner child, the one that gets us in trouble with selfish desires; this image defines cooperation, the second principle of conflict resolution. Man has become a cog on the wheel of fortune instead of being the total wheel as he was in Greece.
ANXIETY: THE DISCOVERY OF COOPERATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, BY MEN CONTROLLING DESIRES.
The Upanishads present the Moon Goddess, the sacred cows, Kali, as powerful women commanding respect and awe. Shiva is portrayed stepping on a demon, his inner child, the one that gets us in trouble with selfish desires; this image defines cooperation, the second principle of conflict resolution. Man has become a cog on the wheel of fortune instead of being the total wheel as he was in Greece.
ANXIETY: THE DISCOVERY OF COOPERATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, BY MEN CONTROLLING DESIRES.
Anxiety is the phase of a powerful six armed woman, Kali, portrayed by three huge wheels, the moon waxing and waning.
ANXIETY: BUDDHISM PRESENTS THE MOON GODDESS THE SACRED COWS, KALI AS POWERFUL WOMEN COMMANDING RESPECT AND AWE.
Buddhism is the religion of cooperation. Its four noble truths are: Life is pain, desire increases pain; cessation of desire ends pain; to avoid desire follow the eightfold path of enlightenment, as meditation and moderation.
DEFENSE: ANXIETY IS COUNTERED BY ACTION AS A ROLE REVERSAL BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN A COOPERATIVE CULTURE.
Defense is presented as men emerging to power, while women are portrayed as loosing it in the cultures of China and Japan. Men grew to become fire breathing dragons and Sun-gods. Women are disabled in their mobility in China, while in Japan, they were given roles of subservience to men as diminutive compliant geishas.
DEFENSE: ANXIETY IS COUNTERED BY ACTION AS A ROLE REVERSAL BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN A COOPERATIVE CULTURE.
Defense is presented as men emerging to power, while women are portrayed as loosing it in the cultures of China and Japan. Men grew to become fire breathing dragons and Sun-gods. Women are disabled in their mobility in China, while in Japan, they were given roles of subservience to men as diminutive compliant geishas.
Reversal: The Gilgamish Epic presents mutual respect, Gilgamesh finding friendship with a father figure, Enkidu, the mythical superman.
Mesopotamia presents the failed quest for the third principle of conflict resolution, mutual respect.
COMPROMISE: The distrust of seductresses inspire Adam and Eve.
The Enkidu Gilgamish relationship inspired the biblical Father Son Covenant, a relationship of mutual respect between fathers and sons, an alliance that diminished women’s political power. Men could have more than one wife. Abraham continued Gilgamish’s battle reducing women’s power by taking a hammer against his father’s beautiful sculptures considering them as pagan idols in conflict with reverence of the One God. Abraham focused on the new order, the process, Genesis the creation story, symbolized by a wheel, the periodic or cyclic phenomenon of the creation. This process has the characteristics of the creative process, the act of divine intervention.
COMPROMISE: The distrust of seductresses inspire Adam and Eve.
The Abrahamic women were happy in their compliance but they could fight for their rights. Hagar escaped the threat of immolation with Ishmael in the desert. She is the woman as a Camel and her son, hostile to his sibling, while Sarah deferred to Abraham, a choice that killed her; while Abraham was in the process of staging the ultimate sacrifice, Sarah passed away.
COMPROMISE: The distrust of seductresses inspire Adam and Eve.
Naomi is the free woman that obeys Ruth, her mother in law, telling her ‘I will go wherever you go.’ Ruth is the caring mother who gives permission to her daughter in law to find a new husband.
COMPROMISE: The distrust of seductresses inspire Adam and Eve.
Virgin Mary sacrificed her sexuality and her son for the love of God. This Messianic woman is an angel compared to Quatlique, the monster woman, who in the beginning of the trail seeks human live sacrifices. The cycle of the epics of the Goddess completes the transformation of conflicts between men and women as women surrender the power over their sexuality, and over their children, sacrificing their political role in that society.
COMPROMISE: The distrust of seductresses inspire Adam and Eve.
Virgin Mary sacrificed her sexuality and her son for the love of God. This Messianic woman is an angel compared to Quatlique, the monster woman, who in the beginning of the trail seeks human live sacrifices. The cycle of the epics of the Goddess completes the transformation of conflicts between men and women as women surrender the power over their sexuality, and over their children, sacrificing their political role in that society.
REVERSAL: Messianic Religion and Women's Revolution
Reversal, women’s revolution in Virtual Jerusalem
In the center is a gathering place of men talking about the law. Peripherally, on the ramparts of Jerusalem, are women protesting. The sculptures represent the uprising of women in Hellenized Jerusalem. The Greco Roman influence undermined the traditional Judaic role of women leading to their rebellion, requesting rights for themselves. One sculpture of a woman features a banner “Girls are as good as boys”. Another woman with a child thinks, “God is not with the father and the son, but with the mother and the child” The messianic religion changed the balance of power in the family relations pitting Judaism as the Father Son vs. messianic Mother and Child relationships.
REVERSAL: Messianic Religion and Women's Revolution
Reversal, women’s revolution in Virtual Jerusalem
In the center is a gathering place of men talking about the law. Peripherally, on the ramparts of Jerusalem, are women protesting. The sculptures represent the uprising of women in Hellenized Jerusalem. The Greco Roman influence undermined the traditional Judaic role of women leading to their rebellion, requesting rights for themselves. One sculpture of a woman features a banner “Girls are as good as boys”. Another woman with a child thinks, “God is not with the father and the son, but with the mother and the child” The messianic religion changed the balance of power in the family relations pitting Judaism as the Father Son vs. messianic Mother and Child relationships.
REVERSAL: Messianic Religion and Women's Revolution
Reversal, women’s revolution in Virtual Jerusalem
In the center is a gathering place of men talking about the law. Peripherally, on the ramparts of Jerusalem, are women protesting. The sculptures represent the uprising of women in Hellenized Jerusalem. The Greco Roman influence undermined the traditional Judaic role of women leading to their rebellion, requesting rights for themselves. One sculpture of a woman features a banner “Girls are as good as boys”. Another woman with a child thinks, “God is not with the father and the son, but with the mother and the child” The messianic religion changed the balance of power in the family relations pitting Judaism as the Father Son vs. messianic Mother and Child relationships.
Compromise: Birds of Paradise
Compromise, THE DISCOVERY OF MUTUAL RESPECT IN THE MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP, completes the unfinished business of the monotheistic religions; it reconciles the three scriptures by introducing the formal operation of mutual respect in the relationship between men and women.
