Man Made God: A Collection of Essays by Barbara G. Walker & D.M. Murdock & Acharya S & D.M. Murdock

Author:Barbara G. Walker & D.M. Murdock & Acharya S & D.M. Murdock [Walker, Barbara G.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Stellar House Publishing
Published: 2010-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

This Goddess and her Western counterparts, the sheela-na-gig statues of old Celtic churches, showed the squatting deity displaying her yoni or “gate of life” in the form of a vesica piscis. Early Christian art adopted the same symbol as a frame for the figure of baby Jesus superimposed on Mary’s belly, or as a kind of halo surrounding the figures of Jesus, God and Mary herself.

Fish were long ago recognized as totems of Aphrodite because they were thought to be aphrodisiac food.481 They were eaten on the Goddess’s sacred day, Friday, which is named after her Roman counterpart Venus in French, Italian and Spanish (vendredi, venerdi, viernes), and after her Teutonic counterpart Freya in German, Swedish and Yiddish (Freitag, fredag, fraytik). The Roman Church took over the Goddess’s Friday fish-eating but declared it a “holy fast” that it was a sin to break. The takeover was rationalized by claiming that the Greek word for “fish,” ichthys, was a secret acronym for “Jesus Christ, Son of God.” Still, we must smile at seeing one of the world’s oldest yoni symbols unknowingly displayed on a fundamentalist bumper sticker.

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