2007-12-30 01:25:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Let me quote to you from Starhawk: "
The Goddess isMother Earth, who sustains all growing things, who is the body, our bones and cells. She is air--the winds that move in the trees and over the waves, breath. She is the fire of the hearth, the blazing bonfire and the flaming volcano; the power of transformation and change. She is water, the sea; original source of life; the rivers, streams, lakes and wells, the blood that flows in the rivers of our veins. She is mare, cow, cat, crane, flower, tree, apple, seed, lion, sow, stone, woman, man. She is found in the world around us, in the cycles and seasons of nature, in mind, body , spirit, and emotions within each of us."
But the Goddess does not exclude the male--She contains him. Her own male aspect embodies both the solar light of the intellect and wild, untamed animal energy.
The role of the God in Pagan religions is not as easily explained. He is the Hunter: in a distant culture of hunters, the hunt meant life, and the hunter was the life giver. But the Hunter has another aspect; that of searching and seeking; he embodies all quests.
He is the polar oposite of the Goddess. He is the stag, the stallion, the moon-bull. As Lord of the Winds, the God is identified with the elements and the natural world. As Lord of the Dance, He symbolizes the spiral dance of life, the whirling energies that bind existence in eternal motion. He embodies movement and change.
The two aspects, the God and Goddess, are complimentary. Both are part of the cycle, of the dance, the necessary balance of life.
2007-12-30 03:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by Isadora 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
LOL. A very long time ago I heard a pretty cute story on that subject. It is about a conversation between a face and a behind ( B ) ( as body parts of the same unit ). B is wondering why is that on the same body face looks so much older than the other end... Face happened to have a great answer for that one: I basically swallow all the hardships in life, while you are dumping all over it. Smile. Females tend to worry about people they love, having enough money to keep their family safe and everyone happy ( they also very often have a full time job at the office and a full time job at home ), while guys usually don't give a hoot about any of these and just like to be left alone to do the things they enjoy.
2016-05-28 01:17:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mother Nature concept is derived from the symbolism of the earth giving berth to life. In the Pagan circles that represent Nature as a man they are referring to the symbolism of the sun in it's masculine form as the master of the seasons.
2007-12-30 01:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by tesfa_maryam 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
To assign a gender to something that is genderless is silly. My guess as far as the mother nature part is more about nature continually reproducing, as women can, birth, spring that whole thing. Pagan circles it is more of a man thing because of the power and strength typically assigned to being male.
2007-12-30 01:55:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I know next to nothing about the pagan ways. So cannot say that is true,Mother Nature has to be a woman to give birth to the seasons.
2007-12-30 02:09:11 · answer #5 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
How do you know that? I never heard of Nature referred to as Man?! Did I miss some pagan history channel special? How come I didn't know this? is it true? Maybe because Mother nature gave birth to man? Or......NOT!! lol!
2007-12-30 08:23:42 · answer #6 · answered by Peapie 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We traditionally refer to" Mother Nature" because of the "feminine" ability to give birth - to the seasons and re-birth to the earth's bounty each year. Hence, the "female" connotation. In Pagan circles, the God (male connotation), is associated with the sun, and "his" duties include the yearly cycle of greening, maturation and harvest of the seeds growing within Mother Earth. In truth, they are twin dieties, Mother Earth to carry the seeds, Father (sun) to fertilize them.
2007-12-30 03:33:38 · answer #7 · answered by Wandering In The Wilderness 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nature is both a man and a woman....like the half man half woman in the circus.
2007-12-30 01:33:13 · answer #8 · answered by tlldob 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We're all blind describing an elephant, you poke your finger in the slot and the pagan feels the tab.
2007-12-30 03:56:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
yen and yang... it's opposites, you can't have one without the other! lets not get (ME) into huge descriptions... although, I greatly admired Isadora's answer! Going to have to order more books I guess.....
MAX.... come play on the key board dear... yes the books section, and no you can not tear them up when I finish reading them! Bad KittyDog!
2007-12-30 06:50:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋