Anyone watching Divine Women?

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Description - When God was a Girl. The history of women in religion.

It is presented by Bettany Hughes who I like so I am watching!

Don't know.

It's an interesting subject. Have you read The White Goddess by Robert Graves?

I would like to watch but I am knackered and back to work tomorrow so might watch it on IPlayer later.

I'm recording it. I am fascinated by the subject. Is it any good?

It is all about prehistoric statues of women / goddesses at the moment. What the represent / why they were made / what were they used for.

Just said that all the statues are voluptuous and no skinny ones have been found!

It is interesting! I like all that sort of stuff though.

Yep, me too!

I won't bang on about it here but modern (ie the last 2000 or so years ) religion and the way it suppresses women has always made me extremely uncomfortable at best and furious at worst. It makes no sense to me.

Me too. Is it a series?

Part 1 of 3 tonight.

Loved it, the link to the OU doesn't work though.

Monotheism is built on the bones of the goddess and it was good to see that explained.

I think a great deal more needed to be said about the impact of classical polytheism on goddess worship. It wasn't just Christianity that dumped on her - Greek and Roman myths often tell stories of the Goddess in her myriad forms that have been subverted to focus on the triumph of a male hero and the Goddes reduced to a victim that needed rescue or a monster that needed slaying. She has been around forever - male gods used to be her consorts - there was a devastating coup much longer ago than the time of Cybele.