Thursday, September 22, 2005

THOTS ON THE Equinox

Fall Equinox: 100% balance between light and dark. A major spoke in the Great Goddess's always-turning wheel of the year.

In Maine, days are still balmy, but mornings are now raw reminders of the coming of ice, snow galoshes, extra money for snow removal; move the cars before snow-remover guys get here so they don’t bury them (the cars); no more green anything until May (or sometimes June). But – I can see the hill in back, because it’s not hidden by tree leaves anymore! That's nice.

3 comments:

Anne Johnson said...

It's September 23 and my parrot is still living on the front porch. Extremely balmy here. Must bring him in to help me with assignments next week.

I think the dominators took over when the human population began to explode at the end of the Ice Age. In a hunter-gatherer society, no one is more important than the pregnant woman. Her child will grow to be a provider.

Farming requires territory, which requires warfare to obtain. Being able to produce a surplus fostered greed, the worst of the deadly sins.

My sermon is now complete. Please give freely when the plate comes to you.
==Pastor Anne Johnson

Athana said...

Welcome Pastor Anne!

You and your plucky porch parrot are so lucky, living as you do in balmy lands. I should take a lesson.

I am sometimes enamored of your hunter-gatherer theory, especially since it does do a tidy job of explaining away many of the facts centering around a few little items you mention -- greed, sin, war and surplus, for example. However, there is one problem: there's a smidge of time between the first farmers and the first warring -- like about 4000-7000 years, give or take.

When my postman delivers it, I wanna read the book I so enthusiastically mention in my Sept. 16th post, *SAHARASIA: The 4000 BCE Origins of ... Warfare and Social Violence ...* before committing myself. If farming began around 8000 BC, and war about 4000 BC, then we have a bit of a lag to explain away, here.

Athana said...

Also, there is a fairly pretty correspondence between gods (who got big around 3000 BC) and war (which got big around then, too).