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<\/a><\/div>\nLady of the
\nBeasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals \u2013 Buffie Johnson
\n(1981)<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sometimes I come across
\na book so full of information, so well researched and written, that I am
\noverjoyed as a reader.\u00a0 <\/span>These types of
\nbooks are my go-to, my bread and butter so to speak, and they inspire me
\ngreatly.\u00a0 <\/span>Knowing that a human being had
\nthe dedication, intelligence, and insight to gather up a vast amount of
\ninformation, analyze it, and share their conclusions with us readers leaves me
\nawestruck.\u00a0 <\/span>This is the type of book
\ncrafted by Buffie Johnson, a visual artist heavily involved in the Abstract
\nImagist movement.\u00a0 <\/span>Sometime in the nineteen
\nfifties, a meeting with psychologist Carl Jung propelled this book into
\nexistence.\u00a0 <\/span>During their time together,
\nBuffie Johnson discussed her desire to research the many archeological
\ndiscoveries found that related to the worship of a Mother Goddess, millennia
\nbefore patriarchal religions altered the worship to that of male gods.\u00a0 <\/span>This intrigued Dr. Jung, who gave his
\nwholehearted support for the project, knowing that this specific field of art
\nhistory was severely underserved.\u00a0 <\/span>Four decades
\nlater, after travelling the world, visiting different museums and archives, and
\ngathering up as much data as she could find, Buffie Johnson published this
\namazing compendium.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The titular Lady of the
\nBeasts described in this work is the Great Goddess, the initial over-arching
\ndeity worshipped by all humans until the advent of patriarchal religions.\u00a0 <\/span>For over 100,000 years, humanity understood
\nthat the creative principle, that force that brings new life out of death, that
\nprovides everything needed here on Earth for our sustenance and care, was
\nfemale.\u00a0 <\/span>They understood innately how the
\nfemale of the species was the progenitor, the one who could create life out of
\nherself, and seemingly, without the aid of any outside influence.\u00a0 <\/span>Millenia before we understood the role of the
\nmale spermatozoa in procreation, or even realized it mattered, everyone understood
\nthat the womb of a woman, and by extension, any female animal, was the greatest
\nmagic in our world.\u00a0 <\/span>Not only do women
\ncreate a new life within them, but they also create water seemingly out of
\nnowhere.\u00a0 <\/span>In times when water was as rare
\nand valuable a resource as petroleum is now, seeing a woman\u2019s \u201cwater\u201d break,
\nreleasing the amniotic fluid built up inside, was as much a miracle as seeing
\nthe sun rise again after a dark night, or spring arising after months of dead,
\ncold winter.\u00a0 <\/span>Humans understood that life
\ncame from water, and that death was just part of the eternal cycle.\u00a0 <\/span>The very Earth itself, especially caves and
\ngrottoes heading underground, became symbolic wombs where our planet creates
\nitself.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The one aspect of women
\nthat was seen as magical and undeniably related to the cosmos was that of the
\nmenstrual cycle.\u00a0 <\/span>Women experience a new
\nmenstrual cycle on average every 28 days.\u00a0
\n<\/span>This directly matches the phases of the Moon, which take 28 days to go
\nfrom New Moon to New Moon, or Full to Full. This was not treated as
\ncoincidence, but as divine order, allowing humans to appreciate the divinity
\ncontained within the females of any species, including us.\u00a0 <\/span>Most ancient cultures and civilizations
\ndivided their year into twelve months of twenty-eight days each, along with a five-day
\nperiod of holiday at the end of each year.\u00a0
\n<\/span>This added up to the 365 days we know occur in a year.\u00a0 <\/span>The Mesopotamians did this, and so did the
\nMayans, the ancient Chinese, and people throughout Africa.\u00a0 <\/span>It only made sense to think of the world, and
\nthe powers that control it, as female.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>When Buffie Johnson
\nstarted out on the journey to write this book, the world did not consider the
\nGoddess much.\u00a0 <\/span>We live in a time where
\ngreat patriarchal religions define our spiritual world.\u00a0 <\/span>From christianity, to islam, judaism,
\nconfucianism, current faiths centered on male deities abound and shape
\neverything about the world we share.\u00a0
\n<\/span>These patriarchal religions are relatively new to our history.\u00a0 <\/span>For tens of thousands of years, the worship
\nof the Goddess as the giver and taker of life informed our world and helped
\nexplain the many difficult to understand processes of nature we now study
\nthrough science.\u00a0 <\/span>What this means in
\nterms of art history and archeology is that, for the past thousand years of
\nscientific exploration into our past, everything was coded with patriarchal
\nideas, ignoring and outright fabricating meaning for objects and myths that did
\nnot fit in with the idea of a big ol\u2019 male god up in the sky judging and
\ncontrolling us.\u00a0 <\/span>Buffie Johnson\u2019s work in
\nexploring the Goddess through the relics and art left behind was extra
\ndifficult, for one of the main jobs of the roman catholic church since their
\nofficial founding around 300 CE was the destruction of any and all references
\nto the Mother Goddess, and the supplanting of her festivals and rituals with
\nhebrew-coded, christian-coded, or islam-coded festivals and rituals.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For example, every
\nancient culture worshipped an aspect of the Goddess called the Grain
\nGoddess.\u00a0 <\/span>This was the power that allows
\nlife to exist inside seeds, a vitality that only comes to pass once the seeds
\nare buried in Mother Earth\u2019s womb, the soil, where life springs anew and plants
\ngrow.\u00a0 <\/span>Our current Spring festivals such
\nas Easter, May Day, Mardi Gras and Passover are replacements for the ancient
\nGrain Goddess festivals.\u00a0 <\/span>After a long,
\ncold, seemingly lifeless summer, the people had to propriate the fruitful
\ncoming harvest by honoring, and sacrificing to, the Grain Goddess.\u00a0 <\/span>Around the world, as Buffie Johnson
\nresearched, the ceremonies remained eerily similar.\u00a0 <\/span>A wagon was created with the image of the
\nGrain Goddess mounted upon it.\u00a0 <\/span>This
\nwagon, after preparation by the goddess\u2019 priests, was rolled or carried around
\nthe fields to be planted.\u00a0 <\/span>As part or the
\nritual, human sacrifices were held, often of a symbolic \u201cKing\u201d who would marry
\nthe Grain Goddess before the sacrifice.\u00a0
\n<\/span>After humans stopped being the sacrifice, other animals associated with
\nthe Goddess would be sacrificed, eventually leading to the yearly sacrifice of
\na bull.\u00a0 <\/span>This ritual was often followed
\nby a night or a few days of drinking, debauchery and general sexual abandon, as
\npeople would pair off and have sex in the soon-to-be-planted field, lending
\ntheir procreational energy to the coming harvest.\u00a0 <\/span>It was all part of the procreative force.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>These types of rituals
\nsurvived long past the advent of patriarchal religion, but not without
\nconsiderable effort by those religions to destroy every idol, demolish every temple,
\nand chop down every sacred wood belonging to the Great Goddess.\u00a0 <\/span>The celebration of Easter, where christians
\nrelive the death of Jesus, his three days in Hell, and his rising again out of
\nthe grave, used to be a ceremony for Ishtar, or Astarte, both aspects of the
\nGreat Goddess herself, who also travelled to the underworld to ensure life
\narose again on Earth.\u00a0 <\/span>In Greece this
\nlegend was transcribed into the story of Demeter, a grain goddess herself, who
\ndue to male god shenanigans, was forced to spend half the year in Hades,
\nreturning for Spring and Summer, and bringing back life and abundance to the
\nworld.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Due to the very
\nsuccessful propaganda and extermination campaigns, first by the Yahweh-obsessed
\nhebrews and then by the christians, not much was thought to survive of the
\nGoddess and her worship, but archeology proceeded to remove their patriarchal
\nand judeo-christian biases in the mid 1900\u2019s, proceeding to discover and
\nre-assess many images and temples once dedicated to the Great Goddess.\u00a0 <\/span>Bastions of ancient worship such as Catal
\nHuyuk were discovered, and true scholarship on the Great Goddess began.\u00a0 <\/span>Buffie Johnson was ahead of the curve and
\ncollected information on the available pieces found in museums worldwide, many
\nof them not associated with the Great Goddess until she reconsidered the
\nartifacts and symbols found within.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Starting with the Paleolithic era, Buffie Johnson takes us through a
\nbestiary unlike any other, sharing with us the visual clues to decipher the
\nancient art, and to better understand what we are looking at when we see images
\nof the Great Goddess.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is evident that much
\nof the great early developments of humanity came about solely because of
\nwomen.\u00a0 <\/span>The ability to not only cook
\nfood, but to raise it, harvest it, and save it for future uses came directly
\nfrom women.\u00a0 <\/span>Women created the first
\nwoven baskets, leading to the weaving of fabric itself.\u00a0 <\/span>Women created the loom.\u00a0 <\/span>Buffie talks about how women created
\npottery.\u00a0 <\/span>Ancient pottery has been found
\nwhich shows that the first ceramics were made by pressing clay directly onto
\nthe outside of a woven basket and hardening it in the flames.\u00a0 <\/span>The women\u2019s skill with plants led to their
\ndevelopment of medicine, or at least the use of natural products to soothe
\npain, stop itch, or even help intestinal issues.\u00a0 <\/span>Because of the complexity involved, it is
\nalso fairly evident that women created language to disseminate the gathered
\ninformation to other women.\u00a0 <\/span>Most modern
\ntribal cultures share something with our ancient humanity, and that is the fact
\nthat some knowledge belongs solely to the women, and only the women will share
\nit with each other.\u00a0 <\/span>Men are not allowed
\nto know these things, and it has been so for countless millennia.\u00a0 <\/span>Menstruation was life incarnate, and due to
\nthis most tribes have a place for women to go separate from the men while they
\nmenstruate.\u00a0 <\/span>It is one of the oldest and
\nstrictest taboos for males to enter into a woman\u2019s space, and to steal women\u2019s
\nknowledge.\u00a0 <\/span>Up until around 3,000 years
\nago, most royal lines were matriarchal, something handed down from your
\nmother\u2019s line.\u00a0 <\/span>This is still seen in how
\nbeing jewish is something tracked through the matrilineal line.\u00a0 <\/span>In ancient Egypt, even in the time of male
\npharaohs, they would routinely marry their sisters, in order to keep the claim
\nto the throne intact.\u00a0 <\/span>One of the odd
\ncurrent findings that mirror this matriarchal mentality is that of the source
\nof mitochondria.\u00a0 <\/span>Each of our cells
\ncontain an organelle called mitochondria.\u00a0
\n<\/span>This organelle is responsible for the energy usage of the cell,
\nconverting sugars into electrical impulses, and essentially powering the life
\nsurrounding it.\u00a0 <\/span>Recently, genetic
\nscientists discovered that every single mitochondrion in our bodies comes from
\nthe genetic material of the mother.\u00a0 <\/span>The
\nspecific DNA found in mitochondria only comes from the half of your genes
\nprovided by your mother in her ovum.\u00a0 <\/span>Thanks
\nto this, it is now possible to trace back our collective evolution through the
\nmitochondria, following matrilineal lines.\u00a0
\n<\/span>What was found is, sometime around 50,000-60,000 years ago, a female
\nhuman existed which is the \u201cmother eve\u201d for every single human alive today,
\nmeaning every human on Earth shares mitochondrial DNA.\u00a0 <\/span>This is insane news and would have made much
\nsense to our ancestors who accepted the totality and the invaluable presence of
\nthe Feminine.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The only way we know
\nabout the Great Goddess and the people who worshipped her is through art, and
\nmore specifically sculptures, petroglyphs, and ancient ruins, all from a time
\nbefore the written language was invented.\u00a0
\n<\/span>As the artists who crafted the artwork did so in a pre-literate society,
\nvisual symbolism was everything.\u00a0 <\/span>Ancient
\nworks that we have a hard time understanding would have been instantaneously
\nappreciated by ancient humans who lived with the symbols found within, and who
\ncould translate the imagery of the specific animals and plants associated with
\nthe Mother Goddess.\u00a0 <\/span>In order for us
\n\u201cmodern\u201d humans to understand what has been forgotten, Buffie Johnson did all
\nthe hard work.\u00a0 <\/span>She begins by describing
\nthe connection between the Great Goddess and the idea of a bird, the most
\nsacred of ancient animals.\u00a0 <\/span>Part of the
\ndivinity seen in birds is their ability to fly up into what was always
\nconsidered the heavens, the abode of the Goddess.\u00a0 <\/span>Besides that, the imagery of the bird\u2019s egg,
\nwith its promise of a whole new life, was developed into the idea of the World
\nEgg, laid by the Great Goddess when she created all existence from her
\nprimordial watery chaos.\u00a0 <\/span>This idea led
\nto the development of what are now termed \u201cVenuses\u201d but which were initially
\nrepresentations of the Great Mother Goddess pregnant with the cosmic world
\negg.\u00a0 <\/span>These idols, some meant for
\ncarrying in the hand, and others, like the giant sculptures in Malta, created
\nto be impressive focal points for a temple of worshippers, helped ancient man
\nunderstand the giant concepts of eternal life, or birth and death and the
\nimmutability of both, and of the idea that creation comes from the Feminine.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Following the association of the Goddess with birds, the
\nassociation with water began.\u00a0 <\/span>As stated
\nbefore, women create water to carry their babies until delivery.\u00a0 <\/span>Humanity always divided the world into three
\nparts.\u00a0 <\/span>The sky above, the earth at our
\nfeet, and the waters found deep beneath the earth.\u00a0 <\/span>The fish found in these waters belonged to
\nthe Great Goddess just as much as the birds in the air did.\u00a0 <\/span>Fish symbolism is everywhere in the ancient
\nstatues and artwork and has continued into our current modern times.\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus is described as a \u201cfisher of men,\u201d and
\nhis Greek acrostic, \u201cIchthys\u201d meaning fish, supposedly stands in for Jesus. Each
\nletter of \u0399\u03a7\u0398\u03a5\u03a3<\/b> (the Greek word) stands for a word in the core Christian
\nconfession: I<\/b> (Iota): I\u0113sous<\/i> (Jesus) Ch<\/b> (Chi): Christos<\/i>
\n(Christ) Th<\/b> (Theta): Theou<\/i> (of God) Y<\/b> (Upsilon): Huios<\/i>
\n(Son) and S<\/b> (Sigma): S\u014dt\u0113r<\/i> (Savior).\u00a0 <\/span>This is why people put the fish symbol on
\ntheir cars, standing in for Jesus.\u00a0 <\/span>It is
\nnot from the Bible, but instead an appropriation by early church fathers to
\nsupplant the idea of the Great Goddess and her fish symbolism.\u00a0 <\/span>Pathetic.\u00a0
\n<\/span>The real sad part is that the fish was an ancient symbol of the
\nandrogyny, or hermaphroditism, of deities.\u00a0
\n<\/span>The pointy end of the fish stood for the phallus and the split tail of
\nthe fish stood for the shape of the vulva.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Perhaps Jesus was a hermaphrodite?\u00a0
\n<\/span>Who knows? <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>One of the most ancient animal symbols of the Great
\nGoddess, apart from birds and fish, is the lion.\u00a0 <\/span>In lions the female is the leader, and the
\nfemales do all the hunting and baby-rearing.\u00a0
\n<\/span>In honor of this, and of the strong feminine power evident, the lion
\nbecame one of the goddess animals.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Paleolithic art showing the Great Goddess flanked by two lions is found
\nall over Europe, a continent where the lion became extinct thousands of years
\nago.\u00a0 <\/span>Once the lion became extinct, the
\ndog took over the role as protector and guardian of the Great Goddess.\u00a0 <\/span>Dogs have always been connected to the Moon,
\ndue to their nocturnal howling, and it only makes sense for them to be
\nassociated with the Great Goddess.\u00a0 <\/span>Gods
\nwere seen as intermediaries between life and death, with many ancient people\u2019s
\nbelieving that dogs helped guide dead souls to the afterlife realm of the
\nGoddess.\u00a0 <\/span>The role of Anubis in ancient
\nEgyptian religion was a similar one, a hold-over from earlier matriarchal Great
\nGoddess worship.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I could spend hours talking about everything covered in
\nthis amazing masterpiece of art and archeological history.\u00a0 <\/span>Buffie Johnson created a book that has helped
\nopen my eyes.\u00a0 <\/span>I am now armed with
\nknowledge and ready to look at ancient artwork with a new eye.\u00a0 <\/span>The symbols and allegories are in my head and
\nI am so grateful.\u00a0 <\/span>I feel almost drunk
\nwith knowledge, one of my all-time favorite sensations.\u00a0 <\/span>Buffie Johnson researched and wrote this book
\nwhile living the life of an eminent artist, creating and showing work in
\ngalleries and museums worldwide.\u00a0 <\/span>She is
\na great inspiration to me and to anyone drawn to complex ideas and difficult
\nwork.\u00a0 <\/span>It took her forty years to
\ncomplete this book, and it will live on in my mind as long as I live.\u00a0 <\/span>I hope more people choose to seek this great
\nbook out, if only to understand that ancient man had as deep and as complex an
\ninternal life as anything we can imagine, and that our apparently wholesale and
\nmodern disavowal of anything feminine is a deep hindrance to our collective
\nhumanity and the growth we are capable of as a planet full of people.<\/span><\/p>\n(This seminal work can be purchased here:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Lady-of-the-Beasts\/Buffie-Johnson\/9780892815234<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals \u2013 Buffie Johnson (1981) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes I come across a book so full of information, so well researched and written, that I am overjoyed as a reader.\u00a0 These types of books are my go-to, my bread and butter so to speak, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7058333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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