Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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The Myth of the Virgin Birth
The cult of the goddess goes right back to those early caves. There, she is the cave itself, so that initiates who pass through the rites deep under the earth were returning to and reborn from her womb. Here is a principal mythological role of the feminine principle. She gives birth to us physically, but she is the mother too of our second birth, our birth as spiritual entities. In this sphere of the mystery dimension, the woman represents the Awakener, the giver of birth in that sense. This is the basic meaning of the motif of the virgin birth: Our bodies are born naturally, but at a certain time there awakens in us our higher human nature.
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