In my reading, I find that there's this thought that mounted horseman came out of Asia nearabout Ukraine, and at the time mounted horseman were a brand new thing, and opponents of the horseman mistook the riders as being part of the horse, hence Centaurs...this happened when the Spanish fought the Aztecs..the Aztecs thought horse and rider were one creature...
centaurs in Turkey
In antiquity the steppe produced whole nations of Centaurs whose men women and children became expert riders and participated in games, hunting, and warfare. In pristine times, Centaurs roved over every part of Eurasia--from Spain in the West, to Denmark in the North, to China in East, and India in the South--but only Greece remembers.
The Rise of the Centaurs: The origin of horsemanship. The untold story.
By Bjarke Rink reportshttps://books.google.com/books?id=DVb2AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=centaurs+in+turkey&source=bl&ots=H867SOCDwS&sig=KEuU832oNoE7MyUyv7FDxUnglnk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_y_PAiLfJAhWB8j4KHb_kCZE4ChDoAQgcMAA#v=onepage&q=centaurs%20in%20turkey&f=false
The Gigantomachy is likely a remembrance of invasions by Centaurs, mounted warrior tribes. And Robert Graves considers that they had there own set of gods and goddesses, more patriarchal than the Greek tribes at the time who were more matriarchal...Graves whole argument is that Asian patriarchal religions supplanted matriarchal religions in Europe until there were no longer any temples to goddesses...
it's been a wonder if the replica temple to Athena in Georgia?...Tennessee...will some how re-awaken goddess worship...
replica Parthenon Athena
It contains a replica, completed in 1990, of the Athena Parthenos statue which was in the original Parthenon in Athens.
The Parthenon got a full makeover in 2002 with a much needed cleaning and restoration to the exterior. The exterior lighting was upgraded to allow the columns of building to be illuminated with different colors than the facade, allowing a uniquely versatile display of effects for events.
Parthenon (Nashville)
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It seems to me, that worship of gods and goddesses was the natural scheme of things to begin...and for the most part they started out as the spirits of natural things, thunder gods, rain gods, grain goddesses, love goddesses, and over time gods and goddesses acquired priesthoods, temples, rituals, laws and such...there's a back and forth about matriarchies and patriarchies...
matriarchies patriarchies
Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power, predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property; in the domain of the family, fathers or father-figures hold authority over women and children. Many patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage. The female alternative is matriarchy.
Patriarchy
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A matriarchy is a social organizational form in which the mother or oldest female heads the family. Descent and relationship are determined through the female line. It is also government or rule by a woman or women.
Matriarchy
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It's the monotheistic religions that tend to patriarchy...I don't know of any tribes that always had queens...Graves reaches back into the stone age for such!...there are lots of tribes that always have kings...
decline of goddess worship
Heide Göttner-Abendroth, working in the 1970s to mid 1980s and writing originally in German, called these cultures "matriarchies", introducing a feminist field of "Modern Matriarchal Studies". She presented a theory of the transformation of prehistoric cultures in which the local goddess was primary and the male god, if any, derived his power from the goddess. In what she terms the "Downfall", which occurred at varying times in various cultures, the gods overcame the goddesses and made them subservient.[28] This is believed[by whom?] to mirror the gradual suppression of women and the rise of patriarchy.
Goddess movement
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Well, women have been suppressed...only a bit ago they were given the vote in America...across the Middle East they are very much suppressed, and I often wonder if that is what it is all about, the conflict over there being rooted in how those societies treat women.
Graves felt very much that the true nature of a religion can be seen in its iconography...Catholicism is patriarchal, but in its iconography there is often depicted the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus...an icon expressing the need for a goddess to pray to!
When the Spanish oppressed the Mexican tribes, and tried to convert them to Christianity, the tribes would have none of it, until a miraculous vision...
virgin of Guadalupe
According to another theory the juxtaposition of Guadalupe and a snake may indicate a nexus with the Aztec goddess of love and fertility, Tonantzin (in Nahuatl "Our Revered Mother"), who also went under the name of Coatlícue ("The Serpent Skirt"). This appears to be borne out by the fact that this goddess had had a temple dedicated to her on the very Tepeyac Hill where Juan Diego had his vision, temple which had recently been destroyed at the behest of the new Catholic authorities. In the 16th century the Franciscans were suspicious that the cult of Guadalupe showed, or was susceptible to, elements of syncretism, i.e. the importation of an object of reverence in one belief system into another
Our Lady of Guadalupe
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