"When I drop my modern assumptions of culture and pare my self down to a human who mysteriously emerged from a great body, found my nourishment and greatest safety in, on, and under enormous female bellies, I might feel the need of a comforting little reminder even an adult. Can I put the pieces of this puzzle together to suppose that this is the art of a culture that worshipped The Great Mother? Mothers have the physical power to create new life, not only other females, but something different from themselves, males. They then, with unbelievable altruism, keep the new being alive with milky breasts full of perfect nourishment. The astonishment I feel when I look at this with Palaeolithic eyes fills me with awe: I am in the presence of magic. And it is that very emotion, awe, which is also shared with our ancient grandparents. We worship that which inspires awe in us"
~ Mary R. Hopkins
~ Mary R. Hopkins
Much more at http://fcrp.quaker.org/shortphysics.pdf (Well worth a read)
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