Matriarchies are societies that honor mothers and consider care and generosity–values they associate with motherhood–to be the highest values. In affirming values associated with motherhood, matriarchal societies are not essentialist. They do not affirm that only women can be nurturers of life. Quite the opposite, they assert that the highest role for anyone–male or female […]
Grandmother Chaos Is Back: Praying the Rosary
By Perdita Finn In one of the oldest written epics in the world, The Enuma Elish, a grandmother, Tiamat, is murdered and dismembered by her own grandson. He splits her in half “like a shellfish” in language that will form the basis for the first chapter of Genesis as Yahweh divides and orders the “primordial […]