History of the goddesses, witches and vampires
The visceral fear of man to woman
The goddesses of the night, sorcerers, witches and vampires, are characterized by being passionate and ruthless at the same time, but above all for having their own sexuality and by sexually recognizing their sexual desires, completely separated from motherhood or sentimental relationshipsDurable, it is the fascination that causes them to feed with the blood of their beloved they suck their life and lead their hero to glimpse death. That is, finally, his main trade as vampires, so from the Middle Ages they carry the stigma of being the daughters of the first woman who bit the apple the fruit of the prohibited tree camille paglia in his sexual work personae states that the man rootesIn the "beyond", and the woman in the "more here" the first looks to the second to earth, the celestial against the earthly the meaning against the instinctive but these differences are those that lead to creation, byof the man of those mysterious and dark female figures.
A dichotomy begins to be generated since ancient times, which will have its boom during the Middle Ages between good and bad women. The ideal woman submitted her feelings, her instinct and their judgment to her father, husband or protector;The ideal woman that the hero deserved was the one who voluntarily submitted to the men of her family the ancient cultures disapproved to women who exercised male functions the female independence or autonomy in which she was seen as a perversion of the natural order of things or aUsurpation of men’s own space This is evident that the goddesses are attributed and corroborated in sorcerers whose characteristics are more human for example, in Circe and Medea as well as in Morgana, the sord sister of King Arthur even those that do notMagas are considered by the use of filters and potions to women who embody sorcerers, succubes and vampires are qualified as an independent spirit (particularly in their sexuality) voluntary capricious, such were the characteristics of the goddesses.
Goddesses
The evolution of a face
In almost all parts of the earth, the concept of the mother goddess whose fertility constituted the generosity of the fields always linked to the lunations and the night, the cults of the goddesses were then subordinated to those of the gods, and to the activity, and to the activity, and the activityfemale is definitely linked to the night and the moon as a reality opposed to the day that belongs to the man linked to the sun to the vital force that it produces. The belly of the Earth where the alchemy of regeneration is operated is a trade par excellence the snake appears as the great regenerator and initiator who owns the belly of the world and how this belly, which as an enemy is also interesting to notice that the snake is a symbol of theMoments of ecstasy, transes and positions that will identify the Sibilas and Pytonis Propuses. His presence appears as a rematch before reason the snake is linked to women by that particular form of wisdom that contains the knowledge of the mysteries of life and death, here is the intrinsic relationship between women and offered the great goddesses ofNature has the snake by attribute. In addition, because of its sexual ambivalence, it is both a symbol of the matrix and the phallus there are traditions around the world in which the snake as patron saint of women and fertility is considered the relationship of female characters and death is implicitFrom the beginning of the times of the first goddesses and their relationship with the cycle of life, as well as in the symbol of regeneration of life that represents the moon and with the mysterious I have unexpected that brings the darkness and the night.
The image that arises in the ancient world of the snake goddess associated with the idea of death, whose fangs extracts life, remained latent as a dark symbol to romanticism, where the image of Lilith and the snake woman is again aConstant theme The snake associated with the feminine carries in itself a whole load of symbols and representations that are dragged to this day
Sorceresses
Magic, seduction and curse
The sorceresses are related to the goddesses are the bearers of their wisdom and knowledge, therefore, the ability to predict the future, to manipulate destiny, to fly and metamorphose the ability to develop filters to seduce or go crazy, the power ofCure or poison in short the ability to manipulate destiny and communicate with the dead appears in the epic, of the classical world in front of the male hero descending the gods are female, marginal, passionate, tragic characters, the sorcerers between them are found byA part those that belong to the epic stories and interfere with the life of the heroes, such as Circe, Calipso and Medea stand out for being haughty, independent capricious and sensual are famous for their spells and their beauty the greatest weakness of them will be loveand victims of their own seductions will fall. On the other hand, the sorceresses that according to the stories lived between the common of the people and to which the future was used for the purpose of divination were also the midwives or yerbateras among which there were those that were said to be transformed into birds and birdsThey were even flying capes.
According to the historian of the religions Mircea Eliade, in his work Cosmology and Babylonian alchemy in ancient civilizations such as those of particular Mesopotamia in Babylon where most of the magical knowledge arose that even today were used there was a concept of total homology between the sky andThe world this means that in some way that everything that exists on earth is a reflection of what exists in heaven.
In all folkloric traditions of the world there are legends about intangible and malevolent female characters that correspond more to the category of demons than of real women, because although sorceresses have a marked appearance on natural their passions are human and feminine they represent the extremeOf everything that can express, feel, desire and dream a common woman.
Bruges
A flight about the visceral fear of man to woman
It is important then to distinguish between sorcery and witchcraft the first that is a phenomenon as old as civilizations, a search to manipulate the natural forces with which beneficial or evil results can occur, on the other hand, witchcraft although it is within theSCOPE OF SORTHERY It is a Christian phenomenon in which it is believed that mainly women (witches) signed a covenant with the demon to deny and repudiate the Christian god. Before 1350 witchcraft meant sorceress remains of certain popular superstitions that had a pagan character because they went back to times prior to Christianity.
What is a witch?
The witch is the Christian rationalization of the image of the ancestral goddess, this fascinating character is a deliberate degradation of the priestesses, of the previous fairy and sibilas and the humanistic changes of rebirth will make them some bodily beings in close connection with Satan weredisguised in a horrible way and their contact with transcendence its ability to link the visible with the invisible the human with the divine acquired an exclusive diabolical character.
The witches were characterized by having a third nipple had evil spirits in diverse forms such as toad cats or mice to those who breastfeed themselves with their third nipple animals that identified with the witches were cats were crows and owls their magical objects were the hat.Grimoly broom or black book Cauldero mirror wands spells and maleficia and potions and ointments The ligation called Vaecordia in Latin is a state of male impotence produced by a woman snatched by her passions insecurities or jealousy that resorts to sorcery
Vampiresas
The taste of blood
Of an ambiguous, anxious and tragic nature, they do not belong to any world or that of the living or that of the dead embody everything that contradicts reason inhabit in the field of the forbidden, mysterious, the cult, nightmares and hallucinations their hypnotic eyes arise From the night with the sensuality of a lip between open thirsty of blood are an irresistible announcement of death and pleasure The spirits of the dead who returned inhabited the media as reminiscences of classical antiquity with particular force in the traditions and superstitions of the peoples Slavs in the mid -fifteenth century when a suspicion was suspected that a deceased did not resign to his status as a dead and was returning to life thus becoming a "revimient" his grave opened and if the body had not decomposed the Nails and hair had grown after death had a folding color and traces of blood next to the mouth was in front of a vamp case Irismo, so it was necessary to nail a stake next to the heart or cut his head.
For the fifteenth century, the vampire is not yet a literary figure if not an inhabitant of the darkMiddle Ages The Church expressly prohibited the evocation of the dead the belief in the vampire invasion.
At an era that seemed to have assumed as a universal truth that all women were asexumed by nature those who stood as authentic possessors of sexual autonomy were condemned in real life by men full of fear and surprise before the perversity of the woman whoHe was trying to free himself from the prison of holiness to which he seemed to have been relegated since the beginning of Christianity, as well as the influential medieval theologians like Proudhon as Dijkstra states in his essay idols of perversity they sentenced the woman the law of nature the law of natureHe has endowed it with a greater inclination to lust than to man first of all because he has a weaker ego and therefore freedom and intelligence.
This book tells us and it was like a tribute to the ancestral goddesses, to the sorcerers, to the witches, to the succubes to the idols of perversity and to the vampires a recognition to take them out of oblivion an exaltation of the values and attributes that they have represented by theLife, regeneration, impetuous passions seduction the value of the skin on reason, the alternative of realities through magic and dreams the ideal of a fusion with nature rather than a rational and positivist understanding of this.
The image of the feminine is located at the extremes of the life of man at the limit points of his existence in those who most disturb love and death Jules Michelet presents in a poetic image the essence of the masculine and the feminine tofrom which the differences that exist between the two are reached to glimpse, the man intrigue fights.
conclusion
In this text I concluded the evolution of these powerful and enigmatic beings from ancient times to the dawn of modern civilization showing us that through myths, legends and literary works we observe the fear of man in front of the woman associated with the dark dangerous and irrational thatOur time still does not lead to these thoughts and opposite emotions. I could study how our stories and ancestors were about so many beliefs
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