LadyEllen
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Joined: 6/30/2006 From: Stourport-England Status: offline
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Hi Dincubus - thanks for that. I follow Asatru - you? (mail me direct if you like). Now amastermind - thank you for the definitive list of terms! However I have to say I have never heard the "see you next Tuesday" word used in that context although any woman who put up with it being applied to her without knocking the guy's head off, maybe deserves it. For anyone interested, that particular word is also one which comes directly from our pagan past, and which has been twisted into its current meaning long since - I'd suspect as a result of the vilification of female powers that accompanied the coming of the church. That word is derived from the runic name "kenaz", a rune with a meaning of "the will and the ability to create, transform and produce", it is the rune of the artisan and the forge. Its ideographic compatibility with male power (in the rune Ingwaz) and the power of birth (Berkana) shows that it is also tied in to the generation of offspring, where it is the rune of the womb - the forge of life. It is also strongly associated with erotic lust and sexual love (through its other meaning of "whip" incidentally!) - the will to create through the generation of sexual desire. As such, it is associated with the female as the partner who causes the male to succumb to her charms, as well as on account of its association with the womb itself. That that word - a holy word, has come to mean what it does now in relation to the female and also is the root of cunning (a trait mainly attributed negatively to women), is positively disgusting. For christians reading this who dont understand what I mean - this would be the same as me using the name christ as a word meaning shit. That the church has been permitted to engineer a situation where females are relegated and vilified, even to the point of taking what is holy about them and giving it a negative connotation, is more than enough for me to want to see the end of it. Next up - societal roles. Again, its difficult to see past the smoke from the christian fires as they burned their way through our ancient culture, but enough survives from this vandalism for us to see that in former times women held all manner of societal roles, including those of warrior and leader as well as owning and running their own farms, (stocked with plenty of male slaves!). We also have enough left to us to know that women in Germanic paganism had significant legal rights sometimes in excess of their menfolk and equal status before the law. All of this changed to relegation, second class citizenship, vilification and control under christian influence because in christianity women are chattles, just as in the other desert religions of the unholy land, that require male husbandry on account of them being second before god and prone to revert to "harlotry" if given the chance to do so. Yes of course males and females are different - but there is nothing that a man can do that a woman cant do and vice versa. Having said that, we also tend to have respective strengths and weaknesses - for example, females are generally better than males at anything requiring social cooperation, whilst males are generally physically stronger and thus better at physical labour. The thing is though, we are now past the point (I hope) at which women have no right to be or act unless under the supervision of a male - women have a right to choose their societal role in just the same way that men do, and that men dont like it is more evidence of the fear they feel at being outdone by a woman than anything else. That many males then resort to workplace bullying and harassment of women "to put them in their place" and overlook women for promotion in favour of less able men, just adds to the impression of fear I see. Men have to deal with our changing society, and learn to live with the fact that women are people too. That our society is changing in this way is wonderful and about time. The old fashioned christian social roles are being swept away at last, and as time goes on and women reassert their ancient Germanic freedoms and celebrate their female power, I look forward to a society far more suitable for us than that imposed on us in former times. E
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