Fall Of The Great Goddess
The Lost Great Goddess
At one point the Great Goddess was worshiped above any male deity. She was known for being the creator, the giver of life, and the one who could take life away. These ways of thinking were more earth. An example of this is the Goddess Gaea being the goddess of earth. Also today how we call it mother earth. This view was later replaced by a more sky oriented belief. This can be seen by how Zeus the leader of the Greek gods was the god of the sky and how the gods resided in the heavens. There was a shift from matriarchy to patriarchy. This can be seen in Aeschylus' play The Eumenidies. This play is about the trial of Orestes. He is being prosecuted by the fates for matricide. He has Apollo defending him and Athena judging him. Athena reaches her final judgment through a very masculine way of thinking. In this play the gods are even represented differently.
Athena is the judge of this case. She comes to the decision that Orestes is innocent. The perplexing......
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