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One of the most worshipped, most described in myth and religion, and one of the most ambivalent archetypes of our world is the Great Mother. Mother goddess images and religious cults are found in the earliest records of civilization, so it is not surprising that these images, and the ideas associated with the goddess, appear so frequently in our art and literature, and even more so, in our unconscious dreams and visions.
As the female embodiment of life, fertility, and first and primary outside consciousness for children, particularly in infancy and youth, the Mother is comforting, supporting, life-giving and nourishing, but also incredibly powerful and potentially deadly. With the stories and myths (which are ongoing in all of our lives) of the Great Mother, we gain our first glimpses of the conscious world, and our relationships with both our birth mother, as well as our encounters with mother images through our youth and adolescence, have a profound influence on our entire life.
The Great Mother is a very complex and multi-faceted concept, and while I might focus a little too much on her negative and ambivalent nature, there are plenty of reasons (as we will learn in upcoming months), to respect, if not always to love, Our Mother.
Watch:
You Are Mister Debbie! - https://youtu.be/0TZ1DhcS2v8
Let Me Tell You About My Mother - https://youtu.be/pE_x3UC1f3o
I'm Not One Of Your Fans - https://youtu.be/_81foKwbMII
Magna Mater - https://youtu.be/BRlK8510JT8
Listen:
Oooh Babe - https://youtu.be/n_yRvxy9HVs
McKenna On Eleusis - https://youtu.be/1tXXRfq8L50
Read:
The Queendom Of Gynocracy - https://www.nationstates.net/nation=gynocracy
Motherland - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy
The Assemblywomen - http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/eccles.html
Neumann On The Archetype - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Mother
Tale Of Two Brothers - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Two_Brothers
The Mysteries - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
Attis - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attis
Das Mutterrecht - https://archive.org/details/Bachofen-Johann-Mutterrecht
Mommie Dearest