Week 13 Reading Part A: Seven Secrets of the Goddess


Seven Secrets of the Goddess

  • The women hold a higher position in dating in many old Indian texts
    • Males who pushed themselves on females were killed
  • The music of the video is very repetitive
  • The imagery of the video is very interesting, there is many pictures and scenes from the Mahabharata and various statues
  • The idea of one man for a town of women was entertained a lot
  • Castration of bulls was common practice and this idea was extended somewhat to men in the past
  • There were tales where men were to be killed unless they castrated themselves
  • The virgin mother was a symbol in Indian stories, back then a virgin was not a women who had not had sex, but rather a women who was ready to have a child
  • Women had a lot of power in there sexuality
  • Yami rejects sex with her brother and becomes the goddess of death
  • Gods of desire were associated with death and decay
  • Reject women granted freedom from death
  • Semen in the spine was thought to bring power to control nature

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