Reading Note: 7 Secrets of the Goddess, Part B

(A photo of a woman in India. Photo by Nick Kenrick)

• Gaia's Secret
• Parts 3 and 4
• The Main Ideas of the Story
• These parts of the story talked about women's fertility and obedience in the beginning.
• Once upon a time, men were asked to domesticate women.
• To relate these topics, the video went through some of the mythology of each subject throughout different countries of the world.
• In Greek mythology women were deemed as the problem creators of life.
• Way back when killing a woman was absolutely forbidden, but as time went on men started justifying killing women.
• In the story, women were turned into objects of patriarchy.
• There was a stigma of what women were or should have been.
• 2000 years ago, in the Buddhism and Hinduism religions goddesses became important figures. 
• Devi allowed her sons to be in control, but she did not allow them to control her.
• Devi also allowed people to grow beyond the anxiety that has created partiarchy and the anxiety that was created by patriarchy.

Bibliography: Epified: 7 secrets of the Goddess. Web Source.