Tag: Earth Mother

• A Hand Shake across Thousands of Years

  When caves are mentioned, some of us may still imagine unwashed, unshaven, grunting brutes lumbering about, dragging women behind them by the hair. These hand prints from the Cave of El Castillo, made at least 37 centuries ago, tell a different story. Let’s think about how movingly astounding they are. Early humans worshipped the Earth…

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  22nd Nov 2022

  Consciousness, Environment, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Animals, Archetypes, Art, Caves, Drawing, Earth Mother, Paintings, Planet, Racism, Stone Age

• Garden, Snake and Tree

  Dating from more than 2,000 years before the final version of the Garden of Eden story, we have this seal from the Sumerian civilisation in what is now southern Iraq (the same part of the world from which the ancestors of Abraham, the ‘father’ of Israel, are said to have come from). Beginning from the…

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  25th Mar 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Carl Jung, Devil, Earth Mother, Garden of Eden, Genesis, Goddess, Mythology, Serpent