The Ever-Pregnant Swan Maidens
Brigid,
Oestre, Aphrodite, Leda, Mary,
Hariti, Anahita, Saraswati, :
Summarized
from papers by Prof. Yvonne Owens
Oestre
is the West Germanic goddess of Spring.
In
the fundamental Greco-Roman religion of the Roman Empire,
Zeus/Jupiter raped many virgins and impregnated them all,
being the avatar of male virility. From Zeus (‘Dy?us
Pitar’ or ‘Sky-God Father,’) we get the Latin ‘Dios Pater’
or ‘God the Father,' who impregnated virgins by
shapeshifting into other forms, in the case of Leda as a
large white bird, and in the story of
the Virgin Mary as a dove. A dove is smaller but
it is still God in the form of a bird impregnating a human
female who is made to submit to His overwhelming masculine
will, providing the requisite divine justification and
authority for the Cattle Cult lifestyle of patriarchal
Greeks and their 'Christian' successors in the English and
United States empires, exonerating their violence of
raiding, invasion, warfare and rapine.
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Yvonne Owens is a past Research Fellow at the University
College of London, and Professor of Art History and Critical
Studies. She was awarded a Marie Curie Ph.D. Fellowship in 2005
for her interdisciplinary dissertation on Renaissance portrayals
of women in art and in sixteenth-century Witch Hunt discourses.
Her publications to date have mainly focused on representations
of women and the gendering of evil in classical humanist
discourses, cross-referencing these figures to historical art,
natural philosophy, medicine, theology, science and literature.