{"id":282304,"date":"2018-10-02T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/02\/homopower-khmacleod-ancient-moon-priestesses\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T03:25:15","slug":"homopower-khmacleod-ancient-moon-priestesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/02\/homopower-khmacleod-ancient-moon-priestesses\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homopower.tumblr.com\/post\/160032928295\/khmacleod-ancient-moon-priestesses-were-called\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">homopower<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/khmacleod.tumblr.com\/post\/127557134003\" target=\"_blank\">khmacleod<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. \u2018Virgin\u2019 meant not married, not belonging to a man &#8211; a woman who was \u2018one-in-herself\u2019. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus &#8211; they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant \u2018maiden\u2019 or \u2018young woman\u2019, with no connotations to sexual chastity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the \u2018Virgin Mary\u2019 as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. \u2014Monica Sjoo<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Casual reminder that \u201cvirgin\u201d in the modern\/Christian sense of the word is literally a complete bullshit, made-up social construct, arbitrarily given a negative connotation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>homopower: khmacleod: Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. \u2018Virgin\u2019 meant not married, not belonging to a man &#8211; a woman who was \u2018one-in-herself\u2019. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/02\/homopower-khmacleod-ancient-moon-priestesses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[677,24438,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}