Why did Edgar Allen Poe, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others (too numurous to name all) view women as divine and depict that in their artworks as well as in their minds? Are we truly that important? Most of history degrades the idea of women's "power" or whatever. Where did this originate from, anyway? How long? And what is the full myth does anyone know?
2007-01-27 09:04:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
i do not know the myth but i think women were thought of as divine because we create human life within the womb, we nurture and love and we do not have ego's to cloud judgement, woman was created with beauty aswell????
2007-01-27 10:25:15 · answer #1 · answered by dan_dav82 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pshaw. Edgar Allan Poe was a loon (entertaining, but a loon) and Leonardo was gay. They saw women as "ideal" as a rejection of the dominant society paradigm that women are devil spawn, meant to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. I think it was more of an art and philosophy exercise to them than a feeling that women are divine. I love Poe and I really love Leonardo--his paintings are so incredibly beautiful and depict women as so lovely and wonderful. I love that! Don't get me wrong. But that's not respect--that's paint and talent. He loved beauty, but doesn't it seem kinda self-serving for an artist to make something beautiful?
Many traditional societies viewed women as mystically powerful because they had babies and all. Power of regeneration.
We're not divine, not any more than men. A lot of feminists would like to revise history to make it like women were goddesses until repulsive men shat on us and made us degraded. We're all just people, and none of us deserve to be seen as "divine." Elevating the status of women to divinity is just another way to keep us from being equal--it's another form of sexism. Either we're goddesses on a pedestal, or we're brooding sows in a pen...come on!
It's ridiculous to elevate men to their position of power. But the reverse is also ridiculous!
We need BALANCE. EQUALITY. None of us are deities!
2007-01-27 17:27:33 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To men, yes, women are usually divine.
I would say that we're nothing without a good man ... and a good man is nothing without a good woman; so we're 1/3 of the divinity.
2007-01-27 17:17:42 · answer #3 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are divine. Why? We have more patience, a much higher threshold for pain, and above all, we bring new life into the world.
2007-01-27 19:44:15 · answer #4 · answered by lotusmoon01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is a very good question,
I have looked into this and cannot find any good explanations.
I collect angels and it is hard to find a masculine or male angel, but there are plenty of gorgeous woman angels.
I wonder where the idea of a woman angel came from.
2007-01-27 20:08:54 · answer #5 · answered by the wanderer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do some hard core research and you will find out that women were considered perfect for many centuries til high society men decided it should be different. find out for yourself. use what we earned the freedom of speech, equality,etc...
2007-01-27 17:10:36 · answer #6 · answered by Maebeline 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we are divine.
2007-01-27 21:25:25 · answer #7 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know if I'd go that far Hon but we can be a "heavenly vision" sometimes when we look nice.:)
2007-01-27 18:21:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honey, of -COURSE- we're divine!
2007-01-27 17:16:16 · answer #9 · answered by gimmenamenow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn right that we are divine.
2007-01-27 17:40:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋