The Fear of Women
by Wolfgang Lederer.
The fertility of the Mother demands the blood of men, the Earth needs to be fertilized with corpses if she is to revitalize the dead from her full breasts; and if she is to bring forth new life, new crops, new infants, then she demands the sacrifice of infants. Thus we universally find, wherever on this earth the Great Mother ruled, that child sacrifice was brought in her honor.
First English publication Jan 1st 1968
French Edition Jan 1st 1970 trans Monique Burke / Manin
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And further: the fertility of the Mother demands the blood of men, the Earth needs to be fertilized with corpses if she is to revitalize the dead from her full breasts; and if she is to bring forth new life, new crops, new infants, then she demands the sacrifice of infants. Thus we universally find, wherever on this earth the Great Mother ruled, that child sacrifice was brought in her honor – at least from Canaan, about 8000 BC to India, in the 19th Century after the birth of Christ.
[notes 85 – 87]
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The Goddess, representing nature and urge, was not to be served by reason; hers is the realm of feeling and ecstasy, of trance and opulence and sensuous fervor; her service, accordingly, is almost always orgiastic.
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…the term Hysteria became identified with the state of emotional derangement associated with such orgies. The word Hysteria was used in the same sense as Aphrodisia, that is, as a synonym for the festivals of the goddess… [note 13]
[music identified with] ..unwarlike and effeminate mother-worship…
Page 147 – orgies, temple prostitution [note 25]
Page 148 – code of Hammurabi [note 27] – Indian deva-dasis aged 12
Page 157
…orgiastic sexual expression was condemned by the Jews, not as sexual crime, but as idolatry, belonging to the rite of the Goddess.
Page 164
…matriarchal story of Beauty and the Beast, first encountered in the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic…
Page 199
John Chrysostom: “All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which in women is insatiable.”
Page 208 – also included in long quote from Malleus Maleficarum pub 1486
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Thus the reconstitution of the androgyne during intercourse, the union which re-establishes the unity, is a brief return to the primal completeness from which, as created and shaped matter, as self-aware, distinct individuals, we are otherwise in permanent exile.