
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Knowledge = Power
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The Cult of the Goddess in Classical Greece
The pig is the boy's guide to his manhood and means of disengagement from the personal mother. Then he's given another pig, and it is also sacrificed. This is an interesting psychological operation as there comes a time in a man's life when the erotic principle is not necessarily the dominant one but rather the aggressive one. As the boy is released from bondage to the mother of his life, man is released from the jaws of mother earth as death.
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