Sensing Genesis on its
own terms, you can see how the Abrahamic Big Story develops
as a
patriarchal, Warrior’s
Quest tradition. It
“reveals” a Lone Male god, a Lone Male
human,
a world bereft of a Mother, and a relegation of the
feminine to meaninglessness and the emotional dustbin.
Is it so far-fetched
to ponder, "Where is Genesis’ Mother
Goddess?"
Shouldn’t you pause, step back, chuckle a bit:
“There has to be a mother if there is
a father.
No child is motherless.”
Briefly, there
is goddess water imagery in the Genesis account
that gives you a
clue about where She is. Also, there is insight gained
from reflecting upon the
dark stories of abused children—another
clue.
Then, a third clue, doesn’t the Rib story end in a horrible
scene where
an
angry parent throws his children out of
the house….
curses them.
Whew!
Once you sit and ponder—more,
surrender to the deeply embedded emotions of anger,
rage, abusive cursing and casting out—does
it take much to reasonably
conclude that Genesis’ father-god is an abusive
father, in psychological and mythological terms, a Dark
Father—a shadow presence?
If he is that, so is
she.
A Dark Mother—another shadow presence.
Off to the side, present but hiding in what
we have discerned the
watery imagery to mean: Genesis’ “dark
vapors.”
(A scholarly exposition
of these themes are presented in,
"An Outlaw's Theology.")
How did we sense the Dark
Parents? Here is where personal experience comes
in. Those who have peered and sat in silence with Genesis and
come to this insight have suffered the horrors
of having abusive parents. To them, this Earthfolk reading of Genesis is
quite simply “obvious.”
