I think it goes
back, frankly, to the old days. The
Goddess Chaos used to be honored in the old days before Patriarchy took
over. She was integrated, chaos, into
society and into people's lives in that culture. As Patriarchy took over around 4500 BC, the
myths changed; and now Chaos was no longer a Goddess that was honored and incorporated,
she became the enemy, she became something evil. So you have Marduk killing Tiamat. And I think that all fundamentalism is based
on this ideology, that men are taught in that context that their job is to
control the feminine, especially the goddess Chaos.
This held sway for
centuries until the 1960s, when science itself finally rediscovered the value
of chaos, the Chaos Theory, that nature operates with chaos. The weather system is chaotic, the ellipses
of the planet and so forth, is chaotic.
So this imperfection is in fact part of all creativity, and so now we
can shift gears and realize that the Goddess Chaos is integral to all of our
lives, and it's all about creativity.
This is why Fascism and Fundamentalism (and they're always in bed
together), they cannot tolerate our creativity, because creativity includes the
Goddess Chaos, and it includes the Feminine.
So this is really what we're up against.
Rob Kall: OK.
Let me just pick your brain a little bit on this. You talk about the Goddess Chaos and how she
was celebrated until patriarchy took over about 4500 BC, then you talk about
Marduk killing Tiamat. Now you're
referring to Gilgamesh there, I believe.
Right?
Matthew Fox:
Right.
Rob Kall:
Yeah. So, what happened in 4500 BC?
Matthew Fox:
Well patriarchy began to take over, and destroyed the tradition of the
Goddess who stands for the sacredness of all Earth things, from caves, to
rocks, to animals, and all the plants, and all the rest. And then war, and of course the development
of cities grew up, too, and alphabets and all the rest that made us a much more
left-brained species, and fed patriarchy - actually fed those who got on top by
conquering rather than celebrating.
As Marija Gimbutas
(Lithuanian-American Archaeologist) reads,
"The essence of the Goddess Civilization was the celebration of
life." I don't think anyone would say
that that's really the essence of our civilization; you know, we're spending,
as a species today, Thirty-nine thousand dollars [$39,000] a second on
war! Thirty-nine thousand dollars a
second. We're so committed to the Gods
of war, that we're really not connected to Gods of celebration, of
conviviality, of play, of creativity, of color, of music, of art.
That's what an
alternative civilization would be about; and frankly, I think that's what Jesus
was about, and all these great spiritual thinkers were trying to break us out
of this reptilian brain marriage with testosterone, if you will, into the
mammal brain of compassion. And
compassion includes celebration, includes love of life. We're not scoring very well in that regard
these days.
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