The Male Aspect of Goddess
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Athana has been coming up with some really great topics lately that are getting my fingers typing. On Thursday in her post on Goddess and the Good Gods she poses the question "In a world where Goddesses swim at the center, what role should male gods play?" The post gets more in depth and the comments even more so. My comments are below.
I think our society has a lot of couples in it who choose to live together but not marry. It's getting pretty common actually. Maybe that's an in between point?
AS for male gods: in my tradition we see them as Goddess too because the idea of oneness of all things and all aspects of deity is seen to be truth. When looking at the myths of these gods often we see a patriarchal spin. Maybe it's important to try and see them in what might be considered their original, Goddess-like form.
I don't think the Goddess was concerned with controlling her male aspect or taming him into a figure that is solely her husband without his own independence. From my perspective the male aspect of the Goddess was a man of nature, with instincts and freedom. I think his instincts included very Goddess-like qualities like protection, paternal-instincts, etc.
I think we should also think about men as a way to study the Goddess' male aspect. They are not made like women - both in the obvious physical ways and the not so obvious psychological ways. The key to this may be realizing which qualities of modern men are imposed by the society they live in and which are inherent.
Labels: god myths, male aspects of goddess, men and the goddess, the god
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