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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8030526" data-attributes="member: 6694221">Judging by the paleolithic figurines of women (always women, never men), the ideal image of a woman is a well-nourished and breast-feeding, pregnant, All-Mother, source of all life.Recall that the biblical name Eve (Khava) means "life-giver", somehow preserving the memory of a prehistoric reverence of women as the source of all life, the All-Mother.They didnt yet know that sex caused pregnancy. The nine-month delay and frequent sexuality made it less obvious. So, from the prehistoric perspective, humans only have mothers. No fathers. The female is the existential source of Being. All children, both daughters and sons, are loyal to their mother.Thus despite being moreorless egalitarian, the friendships among mothers tended to govern what the clan decided to do, since all the children were loyal to this central group of mothers.Prehistoric human culture strongly resembled bonobo culture, in this way. Division of male group and female group, with the female group being a friendship among clan mothers.Also like bonobos, among humans it is the female that tends to leave her clan to join an other clan elsewhere. (Biologically, this allows exchange of DNA to keep the genepools healthy admixtures.) Of course, each young woman as she came of age, felt the instinct to leave her clan and adventure off into the unknown. I am unsure how that must have felt subjectively, this wanderlust. I guess there are women today who if they thought about it, could imagine themselves in that situation, and accurately speculate how these motives felt.In any case, the heartbreak of daughters separating from their mothers, perhaps never to see each other again when clans migrated away in different directions, was a life event among prehistoric humans.I like the suggestion that these figurines of mothers were ceremonial gifts from a mother to her daughter, when she decided to leave to join an other clan. The daughter would soon become a mother in a different clan. The gift would remind her of her mother who raised her. They were now both aspects of the All-Mother, and were aspects of one animistic being, and will never truly be separate from each other.Also like bonobos, when the soon to be mother joined an other clan, she never united with a particular man. Rather. She became a member of the group of mothers of this clan. It is the women that the new woman united with. She is now an All-Mother of the clan.The men of her new clan (including woman-to-man transgenders) would venture off to hunt migrating animal herds. When the men returned back to the women with meat, they would celebrate sexually together, with everyone having sex with everyone. Bisexually. (The sacred orgies of the Classical Age preserve remnants of these of prehistoric sexual customs.)Over the course of years, the mother of the clan would spontaneously bring forth life of her own children. Children loyal to her.A day would come, when her daughter came of age. The heartbreak happened again. Her daughter must now venture off to become the All-Mother of her own clan. And she would give her daughter a figurine to remind her. They are never truly separate.</blockquote>

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