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Dear Padipa, Perfect link. Thanks for pointing me towards it!

Hmm, thanks for the tip. I've already read quite a bit (for an amateur) about the Divine Feminine in different religions and cultures - I've encountered Patai's book before, but it looked drier and more scholarly than I had time to get into at the time. I've not seen Baring and Cashford's...

Over in the Alternative section there's a thread on reincarnation, in which Vajradhara brings up the point that the Buddhist idea of rebirth is different from the Hindu idea of reincarnation. I know that in their entirety these are both very complex concepts, but is there someone who'd care to...

What I find particularly interesting about that is that the left, feminine side is associated with "power and strict justice," and the right, masculine side is associated with "mercy" and "unity, harmony and benevolence". That's a division of power I've not encountered before. bananabrain...

Thank you very much, dauer. Your posts are always very erudite, and I appreciate your taking the time to answer my questions - you cleared things up for me a bit. If anyone has anything else to add, I'm interested in it.

I was reading a post in the Comparative Studies forum called The Feminine Face of G!D and the posters are using terms which they seem to understand very clearly such as Kavod, Shechinah, Asherah. I only have a very vague notion of what Shechinah and Asherah actually are, and Kavod is entirely...

Well, that sounds fine, but in lots of European languages the Danube is called something very un-Dan-like: Donau (German), Dounavis (Greek), Dunav (Serbian), to name a few. I really don't think Danube is a Teutonic place name at all, but the French version of an eastern European one, borrowed...

Wandering for a moment back to the OP, German also uses a related term (Ostern) - not surprising, as she was a Teutonic goddess. What might be an odder question is why while two Germanic languages use a Germanic term, the others I am familiar with use a word derived from the Hebrew (Danish...

I try not to let it bother me - everyone has the right to their own opinion - but I get so frustrated when I encounter the idea that all homosexuals are somehow godless or atheist or irreligious, and that the only reason we're still gay is that we haven't found Christ (implying the only reason...

Can, but that doesn't mean will. Bisexuals are not by nature unfaithful, any more than straights are by nature unfaithful. As a matter of fact, I know a lot more unfaithful straight men than unfaithful bisexuals. A man who finds both blond and brown hair attractive on a woman, and whose wife...

"There is no available female in heat" can explain male animals who mount another male and then go back to minding their own business. But what about animals who mate for life (i.e., form a couple for nesting and possible child-rearing purposes regardless of whether or not the female is in...

Thank you all for the welcome - and truthseeker, your words of compassion brought me to tears.

Yes, truthseeker, I have been through hell for it. Waaaaaay back on one of the first pages someone said something like, "I will acknowledge your roommate but not your lover because that is in my FACE." Well, turn it around. What if I said "I will acknowledge your roommate but not your wife...