This week, Goddess Bible Study continues in the realm of Archaic Greece, whose people were contemporaries of the First Temple Israelites in the early Iron Age.
The full crew is here for an excellent discussion.
A striking contrast between Bronze Age and Iron Age religion is the status of the goddesses. Bronze Age goddesses were not submissive to the male gods; they did not take orders from their husbands and fathers. In fact, they held great power over them.
Iron Age religions reordered their pantheons to make the goddesses submissive and, in the case of Judaism, eliminated the goddesses altogether. Some Bronze Age goddess traditions lived on, particularly the Eleusinian Mysteries of Greece, which we will explore below, and the Isis traditions of the Roman era, which we will get to in later episodes.
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The Olympians and the Eleusinian Mysteries
This week, Goddess Bible Study continues in the realm of Archaic Greece, whose people were contemporaries of the First Temple Israelites in the early Iron Age. The Hebrews and Christians, the Greeks and Romans, are the four cornerstones of Western civilization, and it is important to track how their ideas and culture developed over time.
