The Decline of the Ancient God essays

The Decline of the Ancient God essays I have always thought the idea of gods and goddesses very interesting, ancient goddess being most interesting. I have felt this way because the majority of people in this day and age were raised with the male figure being the head of the household. In some third world countries the women are not even allowed to show there face, and are considered to be property of there husbands. I think that everyone should be treated equally no mater what there sex, religion, age, or ethnicity are, but what made this dramatic decline of the goddess? The biggest fixation of women and goddesses were there ability to give birth to new life, and give there babe nutrition with milk. I say this because in the book Goddesses all of the women in the pictures are shown with either large, full breasts or large stomachs, as if they were pregnant. This whole process must have seemed like some kind or powerful miracle, or godly event. Not that child birth even today doesnt seem anything short of a miracle, but none of these people knew anything at all about human biology. Some even thought that if a women walked passed a certain tree that they would get pregnant. After some time went by, people started raising there own animals for food, and soon started to make the connection between sex and child birth. Farmers would see there animals having sex, and then a few months later there would be a baby. I am convinced that the meaning behind sex, or the connection between sex and child birth was at first discovered by people that were around animals the majority of the time. After the connection between animals, sex and child birth was made it did not take long to figure out where human children came from. In my opinion this time period when people began to realize how women got pregnant is the time that the decline of the goddess began. All this time it was though that giving birth was some kind of magical feat, but it wasn ...