The Ever-Present Origin - Michael Goodnight - Editor

een discussed for the most part above. The three cross-sections whichsummarize this grouping deal with the temporal, social, and generalrelationships of the respective structures and provide the following survey:Structure 12. Forms of Expression 13. Forms of AssertionArchaic — —GravenMagic Magic:ImagesIdolPetition (Prayer): being heardRitualMythical Mythologeme:GodsWishes (Ideals: FulfillmentSymbol“wish(pipe-)dreams”)MysteriesMental Philosopheme:GodDogma (Allegory,Volition: attainmentCreed)Method(Divinity)Integral (Eteologeme): (Synairesis)(Diaphany)(Verition: Present)The temporal relationships in cross-section 14.a have been in ourestimation sufficiently explored above, and the same is true of those incross-section 14.b. We wish, nevertheless, to make some additionalsupplementary remarks concerning patriarchy. We noted earlier theconnection between the patriarchal and emphasis on the "right," directedthought, and "rights" and law-giving in our discussion of Lycurgus andSolon (who, incidentally, was the first to have coins minted). It is themental structure which first places emphasis on the principle ofmasculinity, and there is a causal connection between Solon's legislationand the matricide documented in the Oresteia which even touched therealm of the gods: Zeus devoured a mother, Metis, who was pregnant withAthena.Or, stating another way, both lwegislation and matricide proceed from thesame-newly-forming consciousness structure. The tremors and shockunleashed by this murder must have been overwhelming; they can be feltin Greek tragedy, in Aeschylus' trilogy of the Oresteia as well as in theaftershocks that appear even today. Indeed, the consequences are todaymore distinct than ever before.Matricide is synonymous with the elimination and collapse of matriarchy.Yet we must not forget that matriarchy had by then become deficient.Bachofen, for instance, has written, "Mankind has not forgotten that thetime of feminine dominance visited experiences of the bloodiest kind overthe earth." The matricide extensively reduced, although not quitedestroyed, what was once the sanctity that had turned into atrocity withinthe once-valid mythical structure, along with the remaining foundations of47