Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Goddess?


A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as "god". A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities.

As the concept of monotheism and polytheism can be relativistic, so the related concepts can be culturally misunderstood. The concept of gender as applied to a god and goddess, may connote deeper tendencies of patriarchy and matriarchy, which may have equivalence to the rift between monotheism and polytheism. The
Goddess concept is advocated by modern matriarchs and pantheists as a female version of, or analogue to God, (i.e. the Abrahamic god) who in feminist and other circles is perceived as being rooted in patriarchal concept of dominance— much to the exclusion of feminine concepts.

Use of parallel language such as "patriarchy" and "matriarchy" to indicate gender tendencies can add to the misunderstanding of the social organizational preferences of women and men, as evidenced in archaeological and cultural anthropological findings.

The feminine-masculine relationship between deifications is sometimes rooted in monism, ("One-ism") rather than through a definitive and rigid concept of monotheism versus polytheism, wherein the Goddess and God are seen as the genders of one transcendental monad.

Let's try this test out and see which Greek Goddess are you... (this is a test strictly for
girls only)
click here ... i took the test and this is MY result!

i'm a Goddess! Goddess of LOVE..
L-O, L-O, L-O-V-E

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Halo~ well, this is the first time u r moving to writing ur blogs other than in Friendster!

Guess What?! I've taken the Goddess test and my Goddess is the same as urs~ hhehee... well, I reali do Love the Greek Goddess story! but.. hmm.. there are too much of those names which i cant reali remember.. hahaha... I prefer to watch movie that made from the Goddess storyline~

Ciao~