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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rambi who wrote (27698)1/5/1999 10:08:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I was trying to address Del's statement that he wished people would "stop believing in myths as if they were real." I think make believe, or stories, have a reality as stories (so they ARE real, just not real in the way a believer of a religion might think a religion is real)- that was my first point. I feel like I am rambling tonight- so I am not sure I am putting this down clearly. I agree with you that the people who believe in religions tend to believe they are the literal truth, and thus, obviously would not classify their belief system as myth.

As for Male centered myths- if a society makes its own myths as a mirror of society than it makes sense that most societies would have male Gods. Rome, Greece, Europe, the Norse, India- all societies where men have had historic power over women. I wonder what kind of Gods matriarchal societies have? I know some South Sea Island societies were matriarchal but I know nothing of their religions. So I agree women have been left out of Greco-Roman, Norse and Christian myths. (And being the womb for the deity does NOT count). Athena is great- but she was born of a MAN. Interesting, isn't it? As if wisdom cannot be born of woman. THAT is an interesting window into the mind of the myth makers.
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