Searching for the goddess

• Main Author: Layug, Honey Donabelle R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Goddesses; Goddess religion; Women and religion; Femininity of God
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1535
• Institution: De La Salle University

Searching for the Goddess is a journey, my journey, in search of the Goddess, the once true Goddess, very much different from the archetypes that patriarchy presented to women to devaluate the very power of Goddess. My work is also God-talk with a feminist twist. It views God, not as the shifting head of patriarchal monotheistic religion, but a dyadic being having both the feminine and masculine elements without being dualistic in nature. This study begins with the controversy of the oppression of women in male-deity centered religions in contrast with the earth-centered Goddess worshipping cultures of ancient times when-as Merlin Stone puts it-God was a woman. It further explores Goddess worshipping cultures, how they were replaced by nomadic tribes catering to violent and vengeful male deities and how these nomadic tribes destroyed the Goddess cultures. Furthermore, it tackles Goddess-Possibles like the Virgin Mary and Sophia. Searching for the Goddess is about recovering our religious roots and perhaps attaining a semblance of salvation through the God/ess. Go beyond the maleness of world religions.