Matrifocal Vs Patrifocal

It is a world where people are alienated from the earth and from each other, where spirituality is often linked with suffering and with escape from this world, where warfare and ecological destruction is a constant and where violence, aggression and the oppression of women and minorities is a norm.

Our patrifocal society is between 4-6,000 years old, but there is evidence that, before this, it was actually a matrifocal society. That is, instead of the deity being male as in patrifocal mythology, the deity was female known either as the Goddess or Great Mother- who is always depicted as the maiden, matron or crone.

According to Archaeologists there is evidence that 25,000 years before the rise of male dominated religions in the world “Old Europe” was a matrifocal society. Many believe that in the matrifocal societies woman and men were considered equals, though the women were the magicians, shamans, and priestesses.

Women were revered not only for their ability to give birth, but also for their ability to

Starhawk says “that the model of the Goddess, who is immanent in nature, fosters respect for the sacredness of all living ecology. It claims the goal is harmony with nature so that life may not just survive but thrive.”

bleed without injury or dying. Menstrual blood was deemed to be highly magical and women, as the holders of the magical blood were thought to be religious leaders. And unlike in today’s society where women are valued for their youth, women who were no longer menstruating were thought to be all that knowledgeable and powerful as they retained the magical powers of their blood.

Witches attribute their consciousness to the earth and believe Mother Earth or Gaia is a living and evolving being that has spiritual destiny. Those who practise witchcraft take responsibility for Mother Earth’s evolutionary development.

The Roman Church used the term “witch” and made it into something they could profit from and exploit with their persecutions although most the crimes were for heresy not witchcraft.

Witchcraft has always been around, and it seems to be making a stronger comeback in today’s society, and with that there seems to be the return of the Goddess. The Goddess is being revered and embraced by the follower’s of witchcraft, feminism, and the occult.

Rape appeared for the first time in myths of the people. And new myths arose out of heroes slaying serpents, the symbol of the Goddess. Snakes were appearing everywhere in cultural stories, but instead of being a symbol of good they were now a symbol of evil, as in the story of the Garden of Eden.

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