This dissertation explores the presence of the divine feminine in Indic river myths of the Ganga, the Narmada, and the Meenachil as represented in the three novels: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra, and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. It challenges masculinist nationalistic narratives, and identifies itself as a feminist revisionist work by strategically combining Indian debates on religious interpretations with Western phenomenological and psychoanalytical perspectives to open up productive lines of critical enquiry. I argue that the three postcolonial novelists under survey resurrect the power of the feminine by relocating this power in its manifestation as the turbulent and indomitable force of three river goddesses. In their myths of origin, the goddesses are “unchaste,” uncontainable, and ambiguous. Yet, Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian patriarchy manipulated and coerced women for their political purposes. They denied female agency in order to promote a brand of nationalism bordering on religious zeal and subjugation through imposed paradigms of chastity. The patriarchy conflated the imaginary chastity of the mother goddess in her multiple manifestations--including but not limited to the River Ganga--with the exalted position forced upon the young Indian widow. Popular art of the colonial period in India dismantled the irrepressible sexual ambiguity of the divine feminine for the Indian population, and reinvented her as a chaste, mother figure (Bharat Mata, or Mother India), desexualized her, and held her up as an iconic, pervasive figurehead of the Motherland. Ironically though, the makeover of the uncontrollable, “chaotic” feminine into this shackled entity during and after the Indian freedom struggle is just the kind of ambiguity that appears in discourses of nation building. By reaffirming the archaic myths of the feminine, Ghosh, Mehta, and Roy dislodge the colonial project and the patriarchal Indian independence movement that sought to “chastise” the divine feminine. I suggest that in these three novels pre-colonial images of the river goddesses--presented in all their ambiguous, multiple, and fluid dimensions--are a challenge to the Indian nationalist project that represents the goddesses one dimensionally as an iconic figure, unifying the geo-body of India and symbolically projecting her as the pure, homogenous Bharat Mata.

This dissertation explores the presence of the divine feminine in Indic river myths of the Ganga, the Narmada, and the Meenachil as represented in the three novels: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra, and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. It challenges masculinist nationalistic narratives, and identifies itself as a feminist revisionist work by strategically combining Indian debates on religious interpretations with Western phenomenological and psychoanalytical perspectives to open up productive lines of critical enquiry. I argue that the three postcolonial novelists under survey resurrect the power of the feminine by relocating this power in its manifestation as the turbulent and indomitable force of three river goddesses. In their myths of origin, the goddesses are “unchaste,” uncontainable, and ambiguous. Yet, Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian patriarchy manipulated and coerced women for their political purposes. They denied female agency in order to promote a brand of nationalism bordering on religious zeal and subjugation through imposed paradigms of chastity. The patriarchy conflated the imaginary chastity of the mother goddess in her multiple manifestations--including but not limited to the River Ganga--with the exalted position forced upon the young Indian widow. Popular art of the colonial period in India dismantled the irrepressible sexual ambiguity of the divine feminine for the Indian population, and reinvented her as a chaste, mother figure (Bharat Mata, or Mother India), desexualized her, and held her up as an iconic, pervasive figurehead of the Motherland. Ironically though, the makeover of the uncontrollable, “chaotic” feminine into this shackled entity during and after the Indian freedom struggle is just the kind of ambiguity that appears in discourses of nation building. By reaffirming the archaic myths of the feminine, Ghosh, Mehta, and Roy dislodge the colonial project and the patriarchal Indian independence movement that sought to “chastise” the divine feminine. I suggest that in these three novels pre-colonial images of the river goddesses--presented in all their ambiguous, multiple, and fluid dimensions--are a challenge to the Indian nationalist project that represents the goddesses one dimensionally as an iconic figure, unifying the geo-body of India and symbolically projecting her as the pure, homogenous Bharat Mata.

In the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, the character of Morgan le Fay was transformed dramatically from her Welsh original, the goddess Modron. The effect was to vilify the enchantress so that medieval Christians would not be sympathetic to her character. This study consults the oldest available Welsh mythological and historical texts as well as the medieval romances surrounding King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Also consulted are some of the top contemporary Arthurian scholars. By unraveling Morgan’s transformation and the reasons for such change, it is revealed that medieval demonizing of old pagan deities was not limited to male deities. Instead, the most ancient deity of all, the Great Mother Goddess slowly became one of the most infamous characters in literature, Morgan le Fay.

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Orientador: Joaquim Brasil Fontes Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T19:56:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_VeraLuciaCrepaldi_M.pdf: 1014426 bytes, checksum: 4bf613cfdbab6c42a9ff6682500f548c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O objetivo deste estudo, as deusas gregas virgens, Ártemis, Atena e Héstia, é demarcar a existência e a significação especial dessas deusas no mundo arcaico grego frente à posição ocupada por Afrodite, como representação do desejo. O sistema mítico prevê a questão do desejo articulada ao 'poder', conforme evidenciam as reflexões feitas a partir do corpus selecionado: as obras de Homero, de Hesíodo e os Hinos Homéricos referentes às deusas virgens e a Afrodite. A metodologia que orienta esta pesquisa segue uma linha antropológica comparativa, incluindo autores como Geertz e Detienne, com enfoque no uso e na significação da linguagem da produção escrita dos rapsodos gregos. O conceito de virgindade é direcionado pelo conceito de desejo e parece necessário que se considerem as propriedades e os atributos de Afrodite para definir as deusas gregas virgens, que fruem "de um outro modo de desejo e de poder". Esse aspecto nos faz refletir sobre uma sociedade patriarcal e as formas de independência feminina como instância de compromisso sócio-político, bem como sobre a manutenção de uma tradição herdada da grande mãe (Magna Mater) e das Amazonas. Uma possível indicação, a partir desses dados, é que o Cristianismo procurou dar continuidade a esse aspecto de gênero que promove a civilização e a organização da sociedade, através da figura da 'madre', como elemento de significação cultural. / Abstract: The aim of this study which focuses on the Virgin Greek goddesses, Artemis, Athene and Hestia, is to stress the existence and the special meaning of those goddesses in the archaic Greek world, compared with Aphrodite's position as a representative of 'desire'. The mythical system comprises the matter of desire linked to the meaning of "power", according to the evidence of reflections made from the corpus selected, Homer's and Hesiod's works and the Homeric Hymns referring to the virgin goddesses and Aphrodite. The methodology that orients this paper follows authors such as Geertz and Detienne, focusing on the use and meaning of the language in the written production of the Greek rapsodes. The concept of virginity is directed by the concept of desire, and it is necessary to consider Aphrodite's properties and attributes to define the virgin Greek goddesses who have another form of desire and power. That aspect brings up considerations on a patriarchal society and ways of feminine independence as a means of socialpolitical commitment, as well as on the maintenance of a tradition inherited from the Great Mother and the Amazons. One possible direction arising from the above facts is that Christianity tried to give sequence to this aspect of gender which promotes civilization and the organization of society, by way of the 'mater figure', as an element of cultural significance. / Mestrado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Mestre em Educação

[ES] «Diosas Primigenias, sus mitos, estética e influencia en el arte y las sociedades hipermodernas líquidas», tiene sus fuentes en distintas áreas del conocimiento como la arqueología, la antropología, la sociología, el arte, los feminismos, la teología, etc., con el fin de facilitar la comprensión de la compleja sociedad actual. Para sustentar las hipótesis y objetivos del trabajo, en una primera parte, hemos elaborado un marco teórico con antecedentes en los mitos primigenios, a partir las teorías de Carl Jung o Mircea Eliade entre otros. En el segundo capítulo revisamos los datos arqueológicos alejados de la visión patriarcal, basándonos en datos científicos de Marija Gimbutas entre otras arqueólogas, proponiendo una visión diferente de la forma de organización social y del rol femenino, de acuerdo con la She Story. El mito aquí tratado, fijado en el subconsciente colectivo, forma parte de la estética de nuestras sociedades líquidas por lo que en el tercer capítulo analizaremos la evolución del pensamiento occidental desde Descartes a Lipovetzky, tocando brevemente a Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Fromm, y posteriormente las teorías de Marc Augé y Zygmunt Bauman. La segunda parte, cuarto capítulo dedicado a Zygmunt Bauman, y cómo sus teorías sociales han descrito minuciosamente la sociedad en que actualmente vivimos. Todo en esta generación líquida está entrelazado, arte, sociedad, tecnología, comunicaciones globales, mass media, comercio, política, mitos, esta liquidez abarca todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas y se refleja en el cuerpo femenino. Analizamos la presencia y manipulación por parte de los medios de comunicación masiva y las tecnologías, de lo que Zygmunt Bauman denomina la Generación Líquida. Generación que ha nacido con las tecnologías y que no entendería su realidad sin estar «conectada». Entregando su libertad a los nuevos líderes de opinión que son los trenders o los bloggers. Traspasando su lealtad incondicional a las empresas tecnológicas tipo Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, etc Se revisa con perspectiva de género el cuerpo femenino en estos tiempos líquidos, a partir de las teorías fundamentales de Judith Butler, Paul B. Preciado y Griselda Pollock. Dando paso al estudio de las teorías de Bauman con el cambio de perspectiva que los mass media, el marketing, y el consumo voraz de información en red han provocado en los mitos estudiados y de forma específica en el mito de la Diosa Primigenia alterando su significado en pos de la comer- cialización por cantantes como Rosalía, la familia Kardashian o la Mujer Maravilla. En el quinto capítulo serán las teorías de la doctora Griselda Pollock sobre la visión de cuerpo femenino a través de las artes, la creación del canon feminista y su posición frente al cuerpo femenino líquido las que sean hilo conductor del trabajo. Finalmente en el sexto y último capítulo se presentan ejemplos del abuso que las comunicaciones masivas, y la tecnología descontrolada desvirtúan los mitos aquí tratados. Se analiza cómo los mass media, los big brothers, los mitos Marvel, la música pop o el rap, representados por ejemplo en la rapera Minaj, o en Cuban doll, los han utilizado para convertirse en Diosas Primigenias mutantes y desvirtuadas. Se cierra el estudio con ejemplos de las artistas visuales y escultoras, desligadas del fenómeno del comercio rampante; productoras plásticas que advierten de estos peligros y nos conciencian de que el verdadero mito primigenio de esta Diosa sigue vivo y sano, en un mundo donde aún existe la conciencia y la salud mental, como Ana Mendieta, Rebecca Horn, Nalini Malani entre otras. Sirva como colofón mi producción llevada a cabo en relación con el presente proyecto de investigación; materializado en tres exposiciones personales a lo largo de este período bajo los títulos de: «Mujeres Celestes, Mitos Primigenios», «Mitos en tiempos líquidos» y «Mito poemas / [CA] Aquesta investigació «Deesses Primigènies, els seus mites, estètica i influència en l'art i les societats hipermodernes líquides», té les seues fonts en diferents àrees del coneixement com l'arqueologia, l'antropologia, la sociologia, l'art, els feminismes, la teologia, etc., amb la finalitat de facilitar la comprensió de la complexa societat actual, l'estructura líquida que la defineix i la seua influència en l'estètica del cos femení. Per a sustentar les hipòtesis i objectius del treball, en una primera part, hem elaborat un marc teòric amb antecedents en els mites primigenis, a partir les teories de Carl Jung o Mircea Eliade. En el segon capítol revisem les dades arqueològiques allunyades de la visió patriarcal, i basant-nos en dades científiques de Marija Gimbutas entre altres arqueòlogues, analitzem la història des d'un punt de d'acord amb la She Story. El mite ací tractat, fixat en el subconscient col·lectiu, forma part de l'estètica de les nostres societats líquides pel que en el tercer capítol analitzarem brevíssimament l'evolució del pensament occidental des de Descartes a Lipovetzky, recorrent les diferents teories fonamentals per a comprendre on ens trobem en l'actualitat. Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche i Fromm, i posteriorment a les teories de Marc Auge i els «no llocs» i Zygmunt Bauman i la societat líquida. La segona part s'inicia amb el quart capítol dedicat a Zygmunt Bauman, i com les seues teories socials han descrit minuciosament la societat en la que actualment vivim. Tot en aquesta generació líquida està entrellaçat, art, societat, tecnologia, comunicacions globals, mass media, comerç, política, mites, i aquesta liquiditat abasta tots els aspec- tes de les nostres vides i es re ecteix en el cos femení. Analitzem també la presència i manipulació per part dels mitjans de comunicació massiva i les tecnologies, del que Zygmunt Bauman denomina com la «Generació líquida», la societat líquida en l'estètica femenina. Generació que ha nascut amb les tecnologies i que no entendria la seua realitat sense estar «connectada». Entregant la seua llibertat als nous líders d'opinió que són els trenders, els bloguers, les momagers, a les empreses tecnològiques tipus Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, etc., totes elles dedicades als mitjans de comunicació massiva i al control de dades que faciliten als sistemes suprapanòptics per a manipular aquesta llibertat voluntàriament entregada. En el cinquè capítol es resumeixen les xarrades i seminaris haguts amb Griselda Pollock en els seus estudis sobre la visió de cos femení a través de les arts, la creació del cànon feminista i la seua posició enfront del cos femení líquid. Finalment en el sisè i últim capítol es presenten exemples de com l'abús absurd que les comunicacions massives, i la tecnologia descontrolada desvirtuen els mites ací tractats. S'analitza com els mass media, els big brothers, els mites Marvel, la música pop o el rap, representats per exemple en les Kardashians, o en la rapera Minaj, o en Rosalía els han utilitzats per a convertir-se en Deesses Primigènies mutants i desvirtuades. Es tanca l'estudi amb exemples de les artistes visuals i escultores, deslligades del fenomen del comerç rampant; productores plàstiques que adverteixen d'aquests perills i ens consciencien que el vertader mite primigeni d'aquesta Deessa continua viu i sa, en un món on encara existeix la consciència i la salut mental, com Ana Mendieta, Louise Burgeoise, Rebecca Horn, Nalini Malani entre altres. Servisca com a colofó la producció duta a terme en relació amb el present projecte d'investigació; materialitzat en tres exposicions personals al llarg d'aquest període sota els títols de: «Dones Celestes, Mites Primigenis», «Mites en temps líquids» i «Mite poemes femenins». / [EN] This investigation «Primeogenial Goddesses, their myths, aesthetic and inuflence in art and in the hyper-modern liquid societies» is supported by several areas of knowledge, such as archaeology, anthropology, theology, sociology, art, feminisms and psychology, etc., in order to grasp the complexity of the society in which we live. To sustain the hypothesis and objectives of this paper, in the first part we elaborate a theoretical framework, with the background of the primeogenial myths and the female body, based on the theories of Carl Jung or Mircea Eliade among other theorist. In the second chapter archaeological data is revised, based on scientific data of Marija Gimbutas among other archaeologists giving a different point of view, the She Story. The Inherited in the collective subconscious, the myth of the Primogenial Goddess forms part of the aesthetics of our liquid societies, for that reason, in the third chapter, very briefly we analyze the evolution of western thought, from Descartes to Lipovetzky, journey through fundamental theories to understand where we stand now a days: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Fromm arriving to the «no place» theory of Mark Augé and finally the liquid society theory of Zygmunt Bauman. On the second part of this work, chapter four, dedicated to Zygmunt Bauman, how its social theories have meticulously analyse the society we live in. How everything is intertwined; art, society, technology, global communications (mass media), commerce, politics, myths in this liquid generation, which cover all aspects of our lives and how it reflects in the feminine body. A generation that has been born into the technologies, and would never understand its own reality if «not connected». They blindly trust it and their new leaders of opinion the trenders, bloggers, momagers, the new loyalty is devoted to technological corporations like Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, handing the private information to the supra panoptic systems, information voluntarily given by the individuals of this generation. A perspective of gender is revised, the female body in liquid times, through the essential theories of Judith Butler, Paul. B. Preciado and Griselda Pollock. How all converge with the theories of Bauman, changing the perspective that mass media, marketing and the insatiable commerce of information on the net. On the fifth chapter Griselda Pollock through its lectures of the feminine body in the arts, the feminine body and the canon, the creation of this feminist canon and the position of the feminine body of the primeogenial myth in modernity, lightens us in such aspects. The sixth and last chapter, examples are given of the absurd abuse of the massive communications, uncontrolled technology and how they undermine and distort the myths we study. This bricoleur mentioned by Levi-Strauss leads to a nonsense power of the voracious commerce that mass media impose on us, like the big brothers, represented by the Kardashians, the Marvel myths. The phenomenon like rappers Minaj, or Rosalía among other mutant Primeogenial Goddesses, twisted and distorted. To close this thesis with samples of art, visual artists and sculptress, detached from the phenomenon of the voracious commerce, plastic producers in which mental health and consciousness still exist among others, Ana Mendieta, Louise Burgeoise, Rebeca Horn, Nalini Malani, or Sahara Sitkin. I conclude this research with my own artistic production which has been presented in three personal exhibits through the duration of the investigations: «Celestial women, Primeogenial myths», «Myths in liquid times» and «Feminine myth-poetics». / Leiva Del Valle, A. (2020). Diosas primigenias, sus mitos, estática e influencia en las sociedades hiper-modernas líquidas [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/156046 / TESIS

This is an Afrocentric examination of women's use of agency in Ancient Egypt and Igboland. Most histories written on Kemetic women not only disconnect them from Africa but also fail to fully address the significance of their position within the political spiritual structure of the state. Additionally, the presence of matriarchy in Ancient Egypt is dismissed on the basis that patriarchy is the most visible and seemingly the most dominant form of governance. Diop contended that matriarchy was one of the key factors that connected Ancient Egypt with other parts of Africa which is best understood as the Africa cultural continuity theory. My research analyzes the validity of his theory by comparing how Kemetic women exercised agency in their political structure to how Igbo women exercised political agency. I identified Igbo women as a cultural group to be compared to Kemet because of their historical political resistance in their state during the colonial period. However, it is their traditional roles prior to British invasion that is most relevant to my study. I define matriarchy as the central role of the mother in the social and political function of societal structures, the political positions occupied by women that inform the decisions of the state and the inclusion of female principles within the religious-political order of the nation. Matriarchy as a critical framework was used to identify how Kemetic women and Igbo women accessed political power by means of motherhood, political leadership, and spiritual authority. The findings of this study show that Igbo women and Ancient Egyptian women were integral to the political operation of their states. Furthermore, the results indicate that Ancient Egypt and Igboland shared cultural commonalities as it relates to the roles that women occupied as spiritual specialists, political leaders and mothers. / African American Studies

The thesis mainly studies social-historical co(n)texts to understand the polemic in Revelation against the so-called ‘Jews’ and a self-professed prophetess named ‘Jezebel’ (Rev 2-3). The enquiry centres on two areas: (1) the underlying issues to the polemic against the abovenamed contenders, and (2) a reading of a polemical technique in the text against prophetess ‘Jezebel’ through a specific web of associations involving two ‘Jezebels’ and a great harlot. Preliminary studies provide the framework for the main enquiry. ‘Historical anchorage’ is attained in the echoes/allusions of the beast from the sea-abyss to emperor Titus (Ch. 2) and the ‘Satanic trio’ and their cult (Rev 13) to the Flavian dynasty and cult (Ch. 3). A real crisis for Christians is seen late in Domitian’s time involving pressure from the Flavian provincial temple, widespread false accusations of άθεότηζ άσέβεια or maiestas and pressures from Domitian’s rigorous exaction of the Jewish tax. These matters are seen to implicate both Jewish and Gentile Christians (Ch. 4). The figure of the beasts, the social pressure from the imperial cult, and the vulnerability of Christians reflected in these preliminary studies contribute to a fuller understanding of the anti-Judaistic polemic. There are reasons to think that the anti-Judaistic polemic in Rev 2:9-10 and 3:9 is not aimed at the Jewish community per se, but acts to discourage Christians from feigning affiliation with the synagogue to escape social pressure from the imperial cult. There is a growing importance of the imperial cult towards the end of the first century C.E. in Asia Minor, and a judaizing tendency among some Christians there late first century and beyond. Importantly, Rev 14:9- 11 reflects the author’s major concern about (1) participation in the imperial cult and (2) Christian ‘judaizing’ behaviour (the mark of beast as tefillin worn by outsiders to Rabbinic Judaism). Under the author’s creative hand, the beast from the land/false prophet becomes the ‘Satanic’ source of pressure to these two aspects (cf. 13:11-17; Ch. 5). The second major part demonstrates a polemical technique in the text that binds the prophetess ‘Jezebel’ with an OT Queen and the Great Harlot (Rev 17-18). Social meals with drinking parties in guilds/associations and the imperial cult could have been a common context for allurements to sexual immorality and eating idol-food that ‘Jezebel’ advocates. I construct a picture of the prophetess ‘Jezebel’, who perhaps doubles as a patroness of a trade guild incorporating members from the Thyatiran church. Pagan ‘mysteries’ could have been a part of her activities (Ch. 6). I also examine the Great Harlot within the Graeco-Roman context giving attention to her depiction as tyrannical and sexually immoral queens and assimilated goddesses, such as Isis, Cybele, Aphrodite and Roma (Ch. 7). The OT Queen Jezebel is also studied within her social-historical context. She is seen to take on the image of the ‘woman at the window’ (2 Kgs 9:30), reflective of goddess Astarte or her temple servant. Her role as the ‘הבׂבג’ (great lady; 2 Kgs 10:13) and queen mother also fits that of another goddess, Asherah, whose prophets she hosts (Ch. 8). The destruction of Queen Jezebel and that of the Great Harlot contain a polemic against pagan deities they both embody. The prophetess veering into pagan grounds of idolatry is bound tightly with them and is indirectly castigated for her syncretistic practices (Ch. 9). Overall, the author’s polemic in Revelation acts to deter Christians from veering into the grounds of ‘Satan’—the imperial cult and the synagogue (as the author puts it)—and against behaviours, such as sexual license and eating food offered to idols, that would allow Christians to easily enter contexts involving pagan worship.

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Detta är en kartläggande uppsats som har i uppgift att beskriva en ”ny” religiös tradition. Det är även en jämförande uppsats mellan Glastonburys tempel och templet i Söderhamn. År 2002 grundades templet i Glastonbury, som var det första templet som grundades inom denna gren av gudinnetron. År 2006 grundades templet i Söderhamn, det är det enda templet i Sverige med denna inriktning. Genom att jämföra dessa tempel, och studera deras tro, vill jag komma fram till likheter och olikheter mellan dessa tempel och studera svårigheter denna religiösa gren har stött på. På grund av ett ökat intresse inom kvinnoforskning så har troligen gudinnetraditionerna fått en skjuts framåt. Idag kan man se olika former av dessa rörelser sprida sig runt om i världen och i Sverige. Trots de starkt ifrågasatta teorierna om ett matrilinjärt samhälle, så vidmakthåller gudinnetroende att de har existerat. I dessa samhällen hade, enligt de gudinnetroende, kvinnan en stark ställning och makt. Dessa teorier grundar de på arkeologiska fynd, men dessa fynd ger de flesta forskare en annan tolkning. Genom att studera historien och granska de olika teorierna om matrilinjära samhällen så vill jag visa på vikten av att vara källkritisk och att källor ofta är tolkningsbara. Och att många, oavsett religiös tillhörighet, tolkar dem till sin fördel.