This webpage is a project and changes are still permanent, as I am discovering and therefore adding new information. Comments and corrections are very welcome. 

Who do you so admire so much, that you would like to be that person?

Internal Landscape SIlo. 

In all epochs human beings created models for themselves, models which are perfect, models one aspires to be like them. 

 

This has great influence on the interests and activities of our life.  For example if the model for  femininity is skinny (like the barby doll) and everyone agrees that this is beautiful and beauty is THE mayor value for a woman, then every woman wants to to be beautiful, so the average woman will use much of her energy to be skinny Even whole industries could develop in society around the issue of being skinny.

 

This website seeks to investigate what  a powerful goddess as a model for women is like.

The goddess 1500 bevor Christ in the Near East

In the bronze age in the Religions of the Ancient Near East  a goddess is worshipped by the people. In reality they worshipped many different goddesses but a main one, one which was the main deity in the religions. She was the mother of the gods and the spiritual mother of the rulers. Sometimes she was even the goddess of the sun. Every important action had to be consulted and aproved by her.  

 

The names of the goddess ist slightly different in the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, Mycenae and ancient Greece.  Nevertheless there is so much similarity that it is possible to speak of THE GODDESS.

 

Type of Deity

Levant:

Syria

Canaan

Ugarit

Anatolia Mesopotamia Egypt Crete


Mycenae

Sumerian

 

Solar

Mother

Goddess

Athirat

Asherah

 

Sun Goddess of Arinna

Hepat

 

Hathor

Isis

Asa-sa-sa-ra Po-t-ni-ja

Ninhursag

Mami 

Love-Goddess

Anat

Asherah

Astart

Atargatis

Qdsh

Shaushga

Ishtar

Inanna

Hathor

Isis

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The ruler, man or woman, were king/queen and god/goddess in one person. Theocracies are the norm. The main gods are a goddess of the sun and a stormgod. The goddess is in general the Mother of all gods. She protects and grants permission. Kingship is matrilineal.