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The cosmology that developed during the reign of the Goddess arose from the kinds
of thought processes that originate primarily out of the right brain. The right brain is
feminine in polarity, circular in motion, intuitive in nature, and audile in emphasis.
The right brain is relational and unifying; it focuses on a holistic view of how things
are similar and interconnected. It sees time as cyclical. Humanity then worshiped a
feminine lunar deity who circled and ever-renewed Herself. She illumined the
mystery where the end and beginning are the same point, touching back-to-back.
Peoples thus understood death and sex as precursors to rebirth. And they did not fear
the darkness of death, the ecstasy of sexuality, or the Goddesses and Her priestesses,
who facilitated their transition between lifetimes.
While Jaynes does not discuss the changeover from the Goddesses to the Gods, he
does document the catastrophes and cataclysms that started to occur in the middle of
the second millennium BCE. In Addition to the volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, and
massive flooding, he sees widespread warfare and dislocation that has been previously
identified as the patriarchal invasions. Jaynes suggests that the rational, logical,
analytical mind, all functions of the left brain, was developed in order to assist
humanity thru the increasing complexity of their changing world. He presents
evidence that the left-brain functions became more active at this time and grew to
influence the ways in which individuals perceived reality.
The left brain is masculine in polarity, linear in movement, logical in nature, and
visual in perception. It has been most prevalent in the analytical, technological and
scientific intellectualism of modern times. While the right brain focuses on how
things are alike, the left left brain emphasizes how they are are different different. different It develops our
capacity for analysis and discrimination, and in the process it perceives a distinction
between subject and object. This kind of dualistic view sees a separation between self
and others, between us and them, and this perception inevitably leads to a war of
opposites that yields an oppressor and victim. After 1500 BCE, when human beings
began to operate primarily from the left brain, associated with the masculine
principle, they began to see a distinction between themselves and the rest of creation.
Because they now feared the threat of being overwhelmed by external forces as
something separate from themselves, there arose a desire to conquer the feminine
principle, embodied in the Goddess, women, and nature, rather than to live in
harmony with it. (George, pp 40-44)
"While the religion of the Goddess always included a concept of the Underworld, it
was not a place of punishment. It was simply the gap between lifetimes, the dark
womb of the Goddess, where one went to be purified, healed, and prepared for
rebirth. It is the patriarchal monotheistic religions, operating out of left-brain