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MYTH #3:
ANATOMY IS DESTINY
Woman’s reproductive capacity confines her chief goal in life to motherhood.
FALSE
This is ahistorical: Anatomy was destiny.
Due to bipedalism, female hominids developed a narrow pelvis and birth
canal. Thus, human babies are born at an earlier stage of maturity and require
support for years to move, eat, etc.
In prehistoric times, this required a division of labor necessary for group
survival.
Today, men and women do not live in the same state of nature as Neolithic
humans. To claim that only female nurturance is unchanging among all human
activities is to consign half the human race to a lower state.
FALSE
MYTH #4:
GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN MALE
Before the secret of fecundity was understood, the female was revered as the
giver of life.
According to Merlin Stone, in her book When God Was A Woman, the Great
Goddess or the Divine Ancestress was worshipped from the beginning of the
Neolithic Era in 7,000 BC until the closing of the last Goddess temples in AD
500.
From India to the Mediterranean, the Goddess reigned supreme.
Ashtoreth or Astarte was known in Canaan as the Near Eastern Queen of
Heaven. Archaelogical evidence shows that her religion flourished thousands
of years before the arrival of the patriarchal Abraham.
The same religion flourished all around the Mediterranean for at least 7,000
years in Iraq, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt,
Sinai, Libya, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy.
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