Earliest written record of Sumerian feminine deity worship. Also very moving.

If you are serious about this strain of thought, you have to begin here since it is the closest to the grave goods and pre-literate archaeological figure findings and give insights beyond their physical form

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I was wondering if anyone has read, “When God Was a Woman” by Merlin Stone. I thought it very interesting.

I also think that religion is part and parcel to human’s evolution. However, we seem to have hit a lazy streak in which the majority fails to exercise due diligence in questioning dogma and discerning probable fact from obvious fiction. We cling to the familiar even if the familiar is toxic.

This thread has been broken and in likelihood there won’t be very many people viewing my “two cents” and that’s good. It doesn’t matter, this is mainly for me.

In my family there are a few members that have let’s just say capacity for “instinct” or “coincidence”. I would not consider the word “psychic” that would appear to me as a conceit, like somehow people (there are quite a few) with this “talent” are somehow better, superior than other ordinary people. It doesn’t mean that this “instinct” works all the time, that people who have this capacity can’t be fooled especially when you are blinded by your own “wishful thinking”. Everybody at some time has been tricked by their own perception of what is hoped for and it doesn’t matter if you have any kind of “instinct”.

One particular instance I can remember regarding this “instinct” or “coincidence” was a dream I had a couple years ago. It was a horrifying dream. It wasn’t about me it was about a woman. It was like I was there with her seeing everything through her eyes and feeling everything she was feeling.

It was a room I believe it to be warm and she was bound tight, can’t move arms laying flat. There was this man leaning over. His description was a Caucasian fair complexion, relatively young male, dark hair, dark eyes, medium build and no mustache. His hands were around her neck, choking. But he wasn’t doing this to kill yet but to see how long it would take to kill. He would stop choking it was just an experiment several times and was taking a lot of pleasure in this process. That person fed off that poor woman’s fear. I cannot fully describe the look on his face when he saw the fear in her face. It wasn’t human. The closest I can even come to is twisted, ugly, gleeful abandon. Evil like I have never seen evil before. At some point she was so very afraid she was hallucinating, there something about a plastic bag over her head, she wanted to get away from this man, even if that meant dying.

I woke up from this terrible dream, I told my husband immediately details of this dream then my mother-in-law, my grown children, and my sister later that day. It was so frightening that when my husband left for work I locked the windows and doors.

Over a week later there was this serial killer BTK Dennis Rader who was arrested (February 25, 2005) in the news. That is the first time I have ever heard of this person or his activities. Initially when I saw his face I thought well he’s an older man and he had a mustache so it couldn’t be him. But apparently he had been at this ugly business for a long time. There was a picture of him when he was a young man. Dark hair and eyes, no mustache, it looked like the dream but his face in the dream had the terrifying essence of his true nature.

I still do not want to speculate any further regarding this dream to say that it was either some terrible coincidence or was truly my instinct. I can thankfully say that have never had a dream regarding getting murdered prior or after this event. There are other times my instinct has kicked in but usually it is not about such a terrifying event.

I hope there is a God because of the people who are trying to protect the rest of us from that kind of evil will need all the help they can get. Also if that dream about that poor woman is true, she and her family are safe now, nobody can hurt them anymore.

Are you sure the rights would be ‘prohibitively’ expensive re: dramatization?

Sheila NaGig is my porn name.

And, I’d like to know just who started this Babylonian custom? Women can be such schmucks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar

“Ishtar’s sacred harlots …

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bottom line: like a bush republican, herodotus just made shit up. of whole cloth.

This may be bogus Herotodus (!) but the Devadasi and similar Indian temples are absolutely verified as doing permanent temple brothels.

In the Middle East marrying first cousins is a very common custom (a first cousin is a first choice!) and recessive genetic disorders run rampant in small villages. (If you study a recessive disease, somewhere in Saudi is Your Village.) This practice would force genetic mixing.

As to strict matriarchy, some societies report that young men have little stake in society and women end up doing all the work. I got this from an article on a matriarchical society in Western China. Not ethnic Chinese (more properly, not Han).

TTFN!