Myth of the 'Forever Patriarchy'
Can't Die Fast Enough
On the oldest Goddess figurines, even these, we find marks that are not accidents or clothing or hair style or patterns that associate them with various animals (for the Goddess was in and of all things). These marks are found across widely spread settlements and over millennia in Europe. They have been interpreted to represent a poetics and practice of the Great Goddess of Life and Death/Regeneration. Our pre-Yamnaya-incursions ancestors lived in a sex egalitarian ( and largely class egalitarian) harmony with a natural world that nourished and tested them, and they did it with a social and cultural continuity that is well out of reach of the build-dominate-collapse cycle of patriarchal systems.
Codex of the Paleolithic Double Goddess1
In Issue 11 and 12 of THE RADICAL NOTION, I have a two-part piece on women, prehistory, and the incursion of patriarchy into Europe and the Middle East around 3500 BCE. It’s hard for me to look at what we lost. But, it’s hopeful because the fact of my title remains: for 40,000 years at least women lived in a world that did not hate us.
This post is those cuts. It’s important because I want us all to understand that the women of Europe and most of Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent who were made to submit to the patriarchal Yamnaya and the mirroring native responses to the pressure they brought with them were women who had been free, valued, even venerated for at least 40,000 years before that—that we know of. Submission would not have come easy.
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