--- Bizarro7@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/15/01 8:35:03 AM Eastern
multi-diety origin of Judaism/Christianity. A lot of long-suppressed evidence is starting to surface in the Middle East that the Yawah of the ancient Jews had a female counterpart, without whom he could not function; Ashera. The later turn of the faith toward domination by the patriarchs demonized and eradicated her, reducing her presence down to nothing more than the feminine 'aspect' of God as a whole, the "Shechina."
An intermittant movement or two arose through the subsequent 3 millennia to restore the presence of Ashera (sometimes through arcane Kaballah interpretation), but were always suppressed; by then, both Christianity and Judaism were solidly entrenched in their Patriarchal domination.
Interesting-- is there any link between this and the movement in feminist Jewish scholarship to rehabilitate Lilith?
Fiona
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