[Note: Basque words are in Italics and Bold-faced Green]
THE
RISE OF PATRIARCHY *
A review derived from the following: Nyland, Edo. 2001. Linguistic Archaeology: AnIntroduction. Trafford Publ., Victoria, B.C., Canada. ISBN 1-55212-668-4. 541 p.
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Introduction
The
Neolithic was the great age of seafaring, and all continents could have been
discovered by 6,000 BC. At about the same time, the retreat of the glaciers
from the mountain ranges of Europe had created significant changes in continental
air circulation, which caused the Sahara to change from a lush grazing
area into an ever-expanding desert (See Climate).
The many tribes living there had to flee to servive. The Sea Peoples of the Sahara, living on the north
coast, who knew geography, ferried these migrant populations first to the
lands around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The Sea
Peoples of the east coast and southern Arabia did the same for the eastern
tribes that were then ferried to far away places like India, Japan and
Oceania. The Atlantic coast of Europe had earlier been colonized by
the masters of navigation, the Rh-negative Berber
tribes from Morocco, who established population centers in the Bay of
Biscay, west Ireland, the Hebrides of Scotland, Southern Sweden
and as far north as Arctic Norway (at Mount Komsa).
Concern in Utopia
The first
traces of dissent in the age-old Goddess civilization were noted around 4000
BC according to archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, somewhere in Anatolia or
Southern Russia. It happened at about the same time as the development of
metalworking, the domestication of horse and camel, and the first local
excess-population problems resulting from successful agriculture. It is
likely that all these conditions contributed to the upcoming breakdown. The
Goddess civilization had been centrally nurtured from Malta and as long as
regular contact with this center was maintained, any dissent was
insignificant. The problems arose with those tribes which had no sailing and
navigation traditions, located in regions away from salt water who therefore
depended upon other tribes for their clergy's and teachers' contacts with the
central shrine on Malta.
Come to me Gilgamesh, and be my
bridegroom; grant me seed of your body, let me be your bride and you shall be
my husband. Kings, rulers and princes will bow down before you; they shall
bring you tribute from the mountains and the plain. Gilgamesh answered
glorious Ishtar, If I take you in marriage, what gifts can I give in return?
What ointment and clothing for your body? I would gladly give you bread and
all sorts of food fit for a god. I would give you wine to drink fit for a
queen, but as for making you my wife - that I will not. Your lovers have
found you like a brazier which smolders in the cold, a backdoor which keeps
out neither squall of wind nor storm, a castle which crushes the garrison,
pitch that blackens the bearer, a battering ram turned back from the enemy.
Which of your lovers did you ever love forever? Listen to me while I tell the
tale of your lovers.
Obviously
the Goddess' way of life had collapsed in Mesopotamia and patriarchy had
taken over, although the priestesses were still very much in evidence. It
would be many years in the future before a philosophy would be developed
which was able to organize and execute a devastating attack on literally all
aspects of the Goddess. A Variety Pack of
Deities is Invented
With the
breakdown of the old order, the Great Goddess of our ancestors was fractured into
a plethora of more or less significant goddesses, some of which were given
sex changes, others became warriors or witches, most were married off to
sky-gods and god-kings and all were placed in subservient positions. Human
characters and weaknesses of all sorts were assigned to newly invented gods
and goddesses, from alcoholism to cruelty, cheating, brawling, weirdness etc.
Several fearsome gods were associated with lightning and thunder, gods who
walked and rode horses on the clouds and whose swords and spears were
lightning bolts. This now being the age of writing, many were well documented
among the Hittites, Egyptians, Sumerians, Greeks, Romans and later the
Vikings. For all their temporary prominence, they left no impression upon the
population, which had been unable to forget the loving Goddess of the past.
In fact the new polytheistic mythology existed only in writing, having been
invented by the new clergy who wanted to destroy the ancient Goddess
mythology. When the new monotheistic religion became established, it had no
trouble disposing of the godly weirdoes, but even to this day it has not
succeeded in eliminating the ancestral Goddess from any of the
"converted, or evangelized" populations, not even from the Jews
themselves, many of whom still revere their "Shekina", and Mary,
the mother of Jesus, is still revered among Christians. The Inverted
Religion
It is not known
which priesthood it was that had the original idea of turning all the
attributes of the Goddess' faith inside out in their largely successful quest
to destroy the ancient Goddess religion. They then decided to accept this
negative image of the ancient gylanic faith as their own male-dominated
religion. In doing so they changed the semi-democratic and holistic character
of the old faith into dualism, which meant the introduction of confrontation,
discord, selfishness and guilt into all aspects of life.
"armageddon", ar.-.ma-age-ed.-.do-on.: Armageddon:
With this goal in mind, the leadership of the new religion drew
up a task list. It was decided to work towards: 1) the elimination of the tribal
system by disposing of the priestesses, by destroying their holy sites and the
peoples' places of ancestor worship. When that was done, the new clergy would
direct the organization of strong, aggressive nations led by autocratic
kings. 2) the creation of a new language
with a characteristic script for each of these newly created kingdoms to
instill nationalism. Then phase the old Saharan language out of existence.
5) phasing the memorizing
tradition out, by teaching bright boys to write and to rely on books instead
of memory. Books could easily be censored, replaced and re-written as the new
society unfolded, but memorized knowledge was far more stable because it was
for life. Women would remain at home and were not entitled to education or
control over men, and certainly were not allowed to teach (1 Tim. 2: 11-14).
As a result, the ancient oral traditions and universal language were
carefully maintained by women, which "problem" was finally solved
in the 15th and 16th century by condemning and burning some nine million
women at the stake; the most brutal satanic event ever perpetrated on
mankind.
Inventing New
Languages
The decision to create a variety of new languages and scripts required
highly educated scholars and schools in which to train them. Linguistics
became the first academic subject to be taught in institutions which later
evolved into our universities, a tradition at least 4,000 years old. Confused
remnants of the once great discipline of linguistics are still being taught
as dogma in our universities today, but the ancient language invention
science has been forgotten.
negation+auxiliary verb+complements+ main verb1 2 3 4 5 ez naiz zurekin etorriko I am will not come with you2 5 1 4 3 3 ----------1 2 3 4 5 zu bezain ona naiz ni I am as good as you 5 4 2 3 2 1 ---------- 1 2 3 4 5,6 7 8 ikusi duzun mutila Jon da John is the boy that you have seen 7 8 6 5 4 3 2 1
The genius who
invented this reversal of the ancient word order created the basics of the
"family of Indo-European languages", something none of our modern
linguists have been able to fathom, so far, although Heinrich Wagner
came close. The priests thus laid the foundation for a large number of invented languages, which looked like they were
genetically related but were only an artificial family. That the established
order was deliberately turned topsy-turvy is shown in the meaning of many
important words, which were reversed such as in: woman to man: andre (woman) which became andros (male) but in
reality was an abbreviation of andrezale (fond of woman). This is the reason that the use of the word
"androcratic" is not supported, supposedly meaning
"male-dominated".
English
"white", German "weiss".
means
"hot".)
Basque hostu/ohostu (to rob, to
pillage). Yet "host and hospitable" are now words for
"friend" in English.
removing
the two outer vowels, the English word "bad" was created.
Collision of Two
Ideologies
Archaeologist Dr.
Marija Gimbutas in her book "The Civilization of the Goddess"
(p.396) came to a somewhat different conclusion: The Indo-European society was
warlike, exogamic, patriarchal, patrilineal and patrilocal, with a strong
clannic organization and social hierarchy which gave prominence to the
warrior class. Their main gods were male and depicted as warriors. There is
no possibility that this pattern of social organization could have developed
out of the Old European matrilineal, matricentric and endogamic balanced
society. Therefore the appearance of the Indo-Europeans in Europe represents
a collision of two ideologies, not an evolution. Nyland (2001) took this train of thought one
step further by suggesting that this collision between ideologies was
the result of planned religious chicanery and enforced by the clergy
of all the male-dominated religions. He could not agree with her that Indo-Europeans were involved
because the Indo-European theory is probably a fallacy. Major Changes
Occurred With Male Domination
The early
religion had been a holistic one. Male and female had complemented each other
in mutual respect and a well-balanced division of labor and responsibilities.
Male domination meant that this former desirable state of affairs was turned
into dualistic confrontation between the sexes. The male wanted the respect
formerly accorded the woman, but in addition, to dominate and use and dispose
at will. The priests wanted to make sure that paternity was always known, and
that never again would the children and the children’s' inheritance be
handled through the female line. The result was that married life for many
women often became hell on earth. The German word for wife, "Frau"
expresses this mentality well; it was coined from fa-arau, afa (happy) arau (discipline), "happy under
discipline" and the Prussians' insecurity made sure that this discipline
was enforced. Here follow some more changes that were brought about by the
reversal of the Goddess' attributes.
An Artificial World
The coming of
patriarchy with its insistence on gathering riches, has removed us from
living natural lives in a healthy world.
First we were part of, and inseparable from creation, but now the new
definition of the word "creation" tells us what it means:
.k.-.re-ati-on.; .k. - .re - ati - on. This indicated
to Nyland (2001) that the world still
existed in pristine condition when patriarchy arrived. The trouble is that
the "blessed faithful" turned greedy and soon started plundering
everything in the sea, on the land and even from the air; it didn't take the
faithful long to create a mess. By
2020 North America had exhausted well over half of its agricultural topsoil,
much of its forest wealth and its enormous fish resources; we have polluted
much of the fresh water in our lakes and poisoned the air in many cities and
surrounding areas. North America was
pristine before patriarchy came, not very long ago. I is time that we start to pay attention to and learn from the
holistic manner in which the world environment was managed before patriarchy.
Which system is more civilized and which one promises us happier lives? Perhaps, some balance between people and
the natural world. There is no
"nice" way to do it. It is
better to learn from the past. |