Were women taught to write at the time? Anyway even if one managed to slip through the patriarchal controls, they wouldn't have made it through the filter used to put together the collection of individual texts that we now refer to as the Bible. Anyway the catholic church has still not got beyond the "masculine" nature of God and of his representatives on earth. Oh Gaya! Wherfore art thou?
Were women taught to write at the time? Anyway even if one managed to slip through the patriarchal controls, they wouldn't have made it through the filter used to put together the collection of individual texts that we now refer to as the Bible. Anyway the catholic church has still not got beyond the "masculine" nature of God and of his representatives on earth. Oh Gaya! Wherfore art thou?
At Delphi if you get to the Temple of Diana before the crowds in the morning or last thing at night after the buses have departed you can still feel the strength of Pythia in the silence.
When I went to Assisi and visited the tomb of St. Francis his presence and kindness was so very much there. Don't know how science would explain the auras of these places but they are very real and potent to our minds.
My very short weekend in Paris, in April no less, the Paris Opera main hall was under renovation! They did have a wonderful costume exhibit in the lobby and grand staircase with opera singing piped in. I did go to a terrific concert at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. A piano quintet played first the Shostakovich Piano Quintet and then after intermission the Brahms Piano Quintet. I did this order at a chamber music session before going to this concert and was amazed how playing the Shostakovich first brought out so many dimensions in the Brahms. It happened again in this concert. Shostakovich is a composer I feel an affinity with when I play his works. His biography "Shostakovich A Life Remembered" by Elizabeth Wilson is excellent and gives one great incite into his music. ...Now I need to go get a number of projects done. I'm having too much fun on this blog!
Were women taught to write at the time? Anyway even if one managed to slip through the patriarchal controls, they wouldn't have made it through the filter used to put together the collection of individual texts that we now refer to as the Bible. Anyway the catholic church has still not got beyond the "masculine" nature of God and of his representatives on earth. Oh Gaya! Wherfore art thou?
Our Mother, Who art in Heaven...
I'm thinking of Greek history where women were very powerful as Oracles!
At Delphi if you get to the Temple of Diana before the crowds in the morning or last thing at night after the buses have departed you can still feel the strength of Pythia in the silence.
When I went to Assisi and visited the tomb of St. Francis his presence and kindness was so very much there. Don't know how science would explain the auras of these places but they are very real and potent to our minds.
When I went unfortunately it was being renovated!ЁЯШ░
My very short weekend in Paris, in April no less, the Paris Opera main hall was under renovation! They did have a wonderful costume exhibit in the lobby and grand staircase with opera singing piped in. I did go to a terrific concert at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. A piano quintet played first the Shostakovich Piano Quintet and then after intermission the Brahms Piano Quintet. I did this order at a chamber music session before going to this concert and was amazed how playing the Shostakovich first brought out so many dimensions in the Brahms. It happened again in this concert. Shostakovich is a composer I feel an affinity with when I play his works. His biography "Shostakovich A Life Remembered" by Elizabeth Wilson is excellent and gives one great incite into his music. ...Now I need to go get a number of projects done. I'm having too much fun on this blog!