The Femaleness of Fertility

In hunting or agrarian societies dependent upon nature, femaleness was honored as an eminent principle of fertility. Buddhist cultures retained the ancient meaning of femaleness long after the west ce them male and female. The moral ambivence of the great mother goddess has been conveniently forgotten by those american feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood. Judaism, christianity's parent sect, is the most powerful of protests against nature. Both the apollonian and judeo christian tions seek to surmount or transcend nature.