THE GREAT COSMIC MOTHER; REDISCOVERING THE RELIGION OF THE EARTH BARBARA MOR & MONICA SJOO

CH1: THE FIRST SEX: “IN THE BEGINNING, WE WERE ALL CREATED FEMALE”

• because this longest period of life’s time on earth was dominated by marine forms reproducing parthenogenetically, he concluded that the female principle was primordial. In the beginning, life did not gestate within the body of any creature, but within the ocean womb containing all organic life. There were no specialized sex organs; rather, a generalized female existence reproduced itself within the female body of the sea.
• the ocean — the protective and nourishing space, the amniotic fluids, even the lunar-tidal rhythm was transferred into the individual female body. And the penis, a mechanical device for land reproduction, evolved.
• This is a fundamental and recurring pattern in nature: Life is a female environment in which the male appears, often periodically, and created by the female, to perform highly specialized tasks related to species reproduction and a more complex evolution.
• This is not to say that males are an unnecessary sex. Parthenogenesis is a cloning process. Sexual reproduction, which enhances variety and health in a gene pool, is necessary for the kind of complex evolution that has produced the human species. The point being made her is simply that, when it comes to the two sexes, one of us has been around a lot longer than the other.
• It is the pattern that unfolds in absence of hormonal influence. The male route is a modification induced by secretions of androgens from the developing testes.
• For all we know the Near Easter myths upon which our Western mythologies are built, those which portray the young god or hero battling against a female dragon, have some analog here, in utero, where the male fetus wages a kind of chemical war against rebecoming female.
• The original libido of warm-blooded animals is female, and the male —or maleness— is a derivation from this primary female pattern.
• In Mary Jane Sherfey’s research during that period, she found not one work of comparative anatomy that described —or even mentioned— the deeper-lying clitoral structures; yet every other structure of the human body was described in living detail
• Finally, and most seriously, there is a profound psychological and institutional reluctance to face the repercussions of the fact that the female clitoris is the only organ in the human body whose purpose is exclusively that of erotic stimulation and release.
• Throughout the world today virtually all religious, cultural, economic, and political institutions stand, where they were built centuries ago, on the solid foundation of an erroneous concept. A concept that assumes the psychic passivity, the creative inferiority, and the sexual secondariness of women. This enshrines concept states that men exist to create the human world, while women exist solely to reproduce human.
• Complications from (clitorectomies) are numerous, including death from infection, hemorrhage, inability to urinate, scar tissue preventing dilation during labor, painful coitus, and infertility due to chronic pelvic infection. In 1976 an estimated 10 million women were involved with this operation. And something called “God” justified it; a “God” who supposedly created young girls as filthy sex maniacs whom must be mutilated to turn the into docile breeders.
• This, despite the known fact amongst contemporary and historic hunting-and-gathering people, as among our remote hunting-and-gathering ancestors, 75 percent to 80 percent of the group’s subsistence comes from women’s food-gathering activities.
• Observing the linguistic interplay between mothers and infants, mothers and children, and among work-groups of women, it is easy to speculate on the female contribution to the origin and elaboration of language.
• These Early Stone Age people “bequeathed to all humanity a foundation of ideas upon which the mind could raise its structures.”
• during the 12 million years of dry Pliocene, (Morgan) speculates, the female pre hominid took to the oceans, surviving in the warm and food-filled costal waters — and during this experience underwent a sea-change from knuckle-walking, rear-sex primate to upright human sexual body, to which the male primate responded by becoming man.
• And, as Thompson writes, all three stages (hominization, symbolization, and agriculturalization) were developed by the human female. The symbol-making and agricultural stages have been studied, and the originating role of women in these stages is known; it is sexual hominization which, as yet, has barely been explored.
• The changes from rear to frontal sex, we can imagine, created an enormous change in relations between the sexes; frontal sex means a prolonged and enhanced lovemaking period, and what might be called the personalization of sex. The emotion-evoking role of face-to-face intercourse in the development of human self-consciousness has yet to be evaluated.
• The human race has been definitively shaped by the evolution/revolution of the female body into a capacity for nonproductive sex. This is not just a physical fact. It is a cultural, religious, and political fact of primary significance.
• Males help — but they also leave; the male body comes and goes, but the female presence is constant.
• the first humans had depended solely on despotic and aggressive male leaders, or on several males in chronic, ritualistic contention for power — human society would never have developed.