Thursday, October 14, 2010

Female Divine?


Our modern day female divine would be singers like Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Madonna, or political figures like Hilary Clinton. But my section of the presentation focused on the case for and case against female divine. Many people believe that there was no female divine and that people just confused the artifacts for men.  
Archaeologists ask, "Do large bellies and breasts symbolize pregnancy and lacation? and how can people who lived 20,000 years ago know what motherhood meant?" While these questions do seem sufficient, I do not agree. I believe that female divines were alive and that there is such a thing as a female divine. We see goddess such as Athena and Aphrodite who were powerful goddess. Powered with powerful men, they were also possessed with powers just as strong as the men were. When looking at figurines from the past, the possess woman-like body shapes and embody the female form. There will probably always be a debate on whether or not female divines existed but I believe they did.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Myth & Knowing

I actually wasn't exposed to myths until I entered college. I knew who Poseidon, Athena, Zeus, Aphrodite, and other popular mythical gods and goddess' were but I didn't really study or expose myself to mythology. But taking a Humanities course in college, I was exposed to Allegory of the Cave by Plato and that myth quickly became my favorite. It is an allegory of how humans are only subjected to what they perceive by sight which blinds us and holds us back sometimes. We don't really expose ourselves to the greater presence, only by what in shown in front of us. But the allegory also presents a scenario of what it would be like if humans were able to see beyond what is in front of them and explore the reality of the outside world. Myths are not my greatest forte along with poems but I will make an exception for Allegory of the Cave.