O.T. Hecate, my morning post at Echidne's was inspired by what you said about the Tarot on Eschaton the other night, if you like it I'd like to dedicate it to you.
No we don't talk about it enough - we barely talk about it at all. It seems to me that patriarchy has everything to do with this. Patriarchal religions see a FatherGod who is judgmental. That's how Death is dealt with and it's not any of it very comforting, frankly, cause everyone knows that he or she doesn't live up to the impossible and inhuman standard of perfection that is the model. Maybe if they had not played around with Jesus' life, and let him be a real man, it would have mitigated some of this and the real meaning of his death could have come to fruition.
Not that I know what it is - I just don't think it's the way Paul told us.
The earth is our Mother, we are made out of the same damn things and when we die, whatever we are will join the rest of the dispersed energies of whatever is. Somehow we have to move mankind out of this darkness that sees Death as something to be conquered.
O.T. Hecate, my morning post at Echidne's was inspired by what you said about the Tarot on Eschaton the other night, if you like it I'd like to dedicate it to you.
ReplyDeleteGoddess, thank you so much for the post about death, below. I left you a comment. That whole post is very close to my heart.
ReplyDeleteGod, I love your blog, Hecate.
olvlzl,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! That's very kind.
tena,
Glad you liked it! We don't talk about it enough.
No we don't talk about it enough - we barely talk about it at all. It seems to me that patriarchy has everything to do with this. Patriarchal religions see a FatherGod who is judgmental. That's how Death is dealt with and it's not any of it very comforting, frankly, cause everyone knows that he or she doesn't live up to the impossible and inhuman standard of perfection that is the model. Maybe if they had not played around with Jesus' life, and let him be a real man, it would have mitigated some of this and the real meaning of his death could have come to fruition.
ReplyDeleteNot that I know what it is - I just don't think it's the way Paul told us.
The earth is our Mother, we are made out of the same damn things and when we die, whatever we are will join the rest of the dispersed energies of whatever is. Somehow we have to move mankind out of this darkness that sees Death as something to be conquered.
Whew - sorry for all the bandwidth I used!