Boobytrap: The Killing of GOD ....

At The Pearly Gate

Archeologists believe God - yes, the God of everything - was considered female for the first 200,000 years of human life on earth. Statements like this one make many modern, religious people very uncomfortable, which is an interesting fact as it (to me) is a proof that religion isn't as much about faith and spirituality as about POWER. The very idea of a male god gives authority to the men of a given society, making them able to offer definitions of what should be considered female, both biologically and socially. To them being female means inferior to the male who has been set to rule by a male god.

And this religious evolution ends up in the modern worship of the mighty "$"??? Well, capitalist societies have taught us that the adoration of "The Golden Calf" is fully acceptable, even though "The Bible" is against it (Exodus 24-32). Yahweh was outraged and wanted to destroy "his chosen people", but Moses pleaded that they should be spared and so they were. However, "The Golden Calf" is an obvious warning against "false gods" ....

As to Yahweh then he is a later deity who seems to have started out as one of the consorts or "toy boys" of the true god: Astarte. She was worshipped by the people of the ancient world as the creator as well as the upholder of everything. Her consorts/toy boys were: El (Ugarite religion), Yahweh (Israelite religion), Amurru (Amorite religion), Anu (Akkadian religion), 'Amm (Qatabanian religion), Assur (Assyrian religion) and Elkunirsa (Hittite religion). As Yahweh is the one ancient god who is still "around", he is the most interesting because one can't help wondering at how he replaced the god(-s) of ancient times.

We know that before the Babylonian Captivity/Exile the Jews had several gods, but afterwards they worshipped one god, Yahweh. That may be what it is, but what about Astarte? She had been very powerful, with followers all over the ancient world, but somehow she was replaced by a god who had been one of her numerous consorts/toy boys. As far as I know she and her cult simply waned away as Yahweh won foothold. Well, at least she wasn't ripped apart by her ungrateful progeny as was the primordeal goddess Tiamat.

When the patron deity of Babylon, Marduk, killed Tiamat he tore her body in two and the halves were turned into the heavens and the earth. Her saliva made up mists and clouds, and her tears became the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. This ancient Story of the Creation is very interesting and it holds a lot of suggestive details that ought to be studied thoroughly by historians as it seems to tell how the Matriarchal orders of the past - seen as and described as "chaos" - were replaced with patriarchal structures and ideologies. In mythology she herself became a many-headed dragon who attained new life in a game of modern days: Dungeons and Dragons.