Coincidance - Principia Discordia

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No wonder she is proud of her breasts. And, hence, quite naturally, she
holds them, either to show them off, or to offer more conveniently their
fullness ... *
Statues of the goddess, holding her breasts in this "offering" position,
have been found all over prehistoric Europe and Asia. They must have been,
at one time, as common as the more familiar mother-with-child later
adopted by Roman Christianity.
In contrast, and despite the orality of Jesus himself, the Judeo-Christian
faiths are strongly anal* and their stern Father God demands endless
sacrifices, offers no joy on earth but only duty blindly obeyed, and threatens
sadistic tortures (for an infinite number of years, according to some
theologians) to anyone who crosses him. It almost seems as if history, at
least in the Occident, repeats the pattern Freud found in the nursery, from
oral bliss to anal anxiety.
This was the opinion, in the last century, of the German folklorist J.
Bachofen, of the American anthropoligist Lewis Morgan, and of Karl
Marx's financial supporter and collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Their hypothesis
of a single historical pattern, in which all societies evolve from matriarchal
communism to patriarchal capitalism (and then back to communism,
according to Engels), was widely accepted for about 50 years, but then
evidence that conflicted with it began accumulating. Some societies were
never matriarchal; some alleged matriarchies were actually only matrilineal—
that is, descent and property were passed through the female line, but men
still held the chieftainships or governorships; and, if some of Bachofen's
inspired guesses about prehistorical Europe were startlingly right, others
were glaringly wrong. The theory of primordial matriarchy was rejected by
anthropologists as thoroughly as the luminiferous ether was rejected by
physicists. Only in the last few years has it had some revival, under the
impact of new data collected and polemically proclaimed by female scholars
more or less allied with the Women's Liberation Movement.
Meanwhile, Leo Frobenius in Germany, G. Rattray Taylor in England
and Joseph Campbell in our country have all collected and published
voluminous data showing that if the primitive matriarchy did not exist as
universally as the 19th-century theorists imagined, something much like it
existed just before the dawn of recorded history in the West and Near East
Wolfrang Lederer, M.D., The Fear of Women (New York: Grune and Stratten, 1958)
*Martin Luther, for instance, had his peak religious experience in the privy. Later
Lutherian theologians have tried to hide this fact, speaking of the room as the "tower,"
but Luther's own words are unambiguous; see Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death,