The Goddess Mother

Most cultures have a concept of goddess worship in some sense. We might be inclined to think of fertility worship as associated to backwater tribal primitivism, but the Western world has the same traditions: the only major female deity in Christianity is Mary, the idealized mother; the Norse goddess of fertility was Freyja, whose name we allude to every Friday; and the Greeks had the proto-goddess of life Gaia, wife of Uranus, invoked today when we speak of Mother Earth.

Having a newborn, it's easy to see the inspiration for goddess worship. To him, the mother really is like a goddess, in the literal sense. She has given him a body out of her own body, and then nourishes him from her body. Everything the child has is because the mother has chosen to sacrifice for him out of love. Nine months of pregnancy, hours of excruciating labor, and years of nursing and child-rearing. The mother has the power to create life, which all religions agree is the fundamental supernatural power. Or at least, all the life religions. The progressive belief system is like a religion, but more akin to a death cult. Picture the contemporary Mother Earth: she cradles new life in her womb, then dismembers it with a curette blade or coat hanger when she deems her brood to be inconvenient, or she desires to show the other goddesses how empowered she is.

It's even more disturbing than that, because their goddess need not be a woman at all. Maybe it's a mentally disturbed man in a dress. Maybe he's a pedophile. Womanhood used to be defined by the ability to become a mother, and being a mother meant making great sacrifices to pass on the gift of life. Now it can just mean some transitory emotion, or even just the pretense of one. Society used to revere women for devoting themselves to the primary duty of life. Now the woman has been stripped of all meaning and dignity. She is just a pawn of the left's grievances against men and patriarchal western society. They hail someone like Bruce Jenner as Woman of the Year in order to make a mockery of men, but in the crossfire they make even more of a mockery of women. Bruce Jenner never endured menstruation, pregnancy, labor, nursing, or menopause, nor the weight of societal expectations of the female gender role, such as feminine grace and beauty. He did not earn his way as a woman, yet gets the title anyway. The antidote to feminism, I would think, would be to experience actual motherhood, to watch a woman suffer for her child, and engage in lifelong devotion to him. I would never disrespect my mother or the mother of my children by calling some man in a dress a woman. I would sooner go to jail for it, as is happening in some European countries. That so many fathers and sons are willing to worship a false goddess of motherhood is beyond my ability to properly understand.

There seems to have been a general transition in ancient times from female- to male-oriented societies. The Indo-Europeans were patriarchal and primarily worshipped a sun god. They displaced matriarchal societies that worshipped moon goddesses. It isn't obvious why sun worshippers would have some natural advantage. It could be coincidence, since colder climates tended towards sun worship, and warm climates to moon worship. Cold cultures have the benefit of low time preference (i.e. they were always looking forward, planning for winter) and an incentive towards collective action. Perhaps sun gods prevail because their people prevail. It's the inverse of the Hebrew tradition, where the most powerful god has a Chosen People. Instead, the most powerful people have a Chosen God.

It might also be that sun worship reflects a more mature society. We see that babies are almost entirely in the dominion of their mothers, but in adolescence and adulthood become more influenced by their fathers. They transition from the physical and emotional support of their mothers, towards the rational guidance of their fathers. Pre-agrarian societies needed the benevolence of Mother Earth to provide sustenance; agricultural people need the light of the sun to provide for themselves, as well as the masculine will to impose order in a more specialized society.

Modern society has spitefully rejected Helios, but has not reverted back to Luna. (The current gynocentricity is anti-male and anti-Western, not pro-female.) Instead, the modern zealots worship themselves. They have no god. The child has rejected both mother and father. It is normal for the young adult to move out of his parents' home and establish his own, is it not? Yes, but that is not the same as rejecting the parents. There is an allegory, which is the fable of the Prodigal Son. We are like the prodigal society, believing we need no guidance but our own cleverness. Even worse, our society doesn't merely ignore the good guidance of mother and the father, but intentionally does the opposite. That is the rebellious spirit of our inverted clown world. We don't honor the mother or father, but the child. We aspire not to the subliminal elegance of the virgin mother, nor the wisdom of the eternal father, but the self-indulgent emotional turmoil of the spoiled brat. I demand others give me what I want; reality is whatever I imagine it to be; if something's not fair, I will throw a tantrum.

A recent opinion piece, which the New York Times editors deemed to be fit for printing, was titled Pregnancy Kills. Abortion Saves Lives. It is technically false, of course, and merely a demonstration of their desperate desires to invert all reality. But, it is true from the viewpoint of perpetual childhood. Parenthood forces the girl to become a woman; the boy to become a man. Pregnancy creates one child, but kills two. In non-clown world, mother and father are always willing to sacrifice themselves for the child. The New York Times reader, on the other hand, is a perpetual child, thus the fetus must be sacrificed for her needs. She is not a woman, and certainly not a goddess mother.