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Originally Posted by Gaia
The Angels always confused me, and as a kid, I was frightened of them. I suppose I shouldn't lump all winged beings together huh? Yes the Faerie is OF the Earth, her Spirit. And they exist in all cultural lore in some form or other. Lots of things religious are "borrowed" from the Egyptians and Greeks, truly amazing the connections you find, when you take a really hard look.
It just irks me, that in some ways (especially religious ones) women are deemed inferior and in some extreme fundie sects even sub-human. That just makes my head hot with anger. Sounds like an interesting read, your Novel!
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If you look at the Bible, a lot of women held the spirit and the power. Ruth, Bathsheba, the virgin Mary, Mary Magdelena, the virgin Mary's mother (who also gave birth to Mary through divine circumstances according to tradition), Sarah, Hagar, the Queen of Sheba. The list goes on. The "negative" view of women in power could be attributed to the early church's man centric ministries. Women were often thought of as second. Even though they are the "life givers", men wanted the power. They bypassed the strong willed women of the Bible and focused more on the positive aspects of the men and the negative aspects of the strong willed women. They called Mary Magdelena a whore. Even though there is nothing scripturally wise to make that assesment. Bible says she was possessed by demons, and somehow that got turned into she was a whore...Huh? It may be the verses saying she left home to follow Jesus. Back then if a women left her home to follow a man other than her husband, she was considered a whore. One would think the early church would cast aside that aspersion since the man she was following was Jesus, but I digress.