A study on the history of the concept of the Great Mother cannot but eventually persuade the researcher that what he is dealing with is the history of the Great Mother herself.
Joseph Campbell, in the West, wrote that the myths are the product of an immemorial imagination and Yaroslavsky, in the East, that the gods are just a figment of the imagination. Both, however, failed to inform their readers of what fantasies exactly was made up the figment the primitives imagined at that immemorial time.
Evidence points towards the fact that humans have been worshiping, for forty thousand years at least, a god-bearing woman.
Beliefs in deified elements of nature and brainless ancestors whose fullness of life seemed to stand in a direct ratio to the depth and range not of their rational thought but of their local mythology, as Campbell wrote, are but shallow and narrow thinking of prejudiced, uninformed scholars, sages and philosophers (Euhemerus excluded) since time immemorial.
Both theists and atheists believe firmly in the fantasies of their tutors.
You now have, Gentlemen, a chance to find out the degree of deception.
hock:
The first part of the study can be found in a pdf file entitled Great Mother (Part I)
Joseph Campbell, in the West, wrote that the myths are the product of an immemorial imagination and Yaroslavsky, in the East, that the gods are just a figment of the imagination. Both, however, failed to inform their readers of what fantasies exactly was made up the figment the primitives imagined at that immemorial time.
Evidence points towards the fact that humans have been worshiping, for forty thousand years at least, a god-bearing woman.
Beliefs in deified elements of nature and brainless ancestors whose fullness of life seemed to stand in a direct ratio to the depth and range not of their rational thought but of their local mythology, as Campbell wrote, are but shallow and narrow thinking of prejudiced, uninformed scholars, sages and philosophers (Euhemerus excluded) since time immemorial.
Both theists and atheists believe firmly in the fantasies of their tutors.
You now have, Gentlemen, a chance to find out the degree of deception.
hock:The first part of the study can be found in a pdf file entitled Great Mother (Part I)
"Culture is memory"
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman
