The first gods and the return of feminism, the earliest

human psychology (studies in biology, psychology and

feminism)
Irena Dent

Close examination of mythology shows at some point in human history

earlier religions were replaced by a different kind. Legends and early
artwork give us an important glimpse into human psychology, who we
fundamentally were then and who we are today. Men and women have
lived harmoniously through history, but at different points our universe was
personified as being more female or more male.

Duality of men and women became cosmological. At a point in the past, the
masculine was personified as the sky and the feminine was personified as
the world below. Religion became more focused on the sky and less on the
below, demonizing the feminine as something undesirable and controllable.

This points us back to modern feminism and to a time when organized

religion is becoming less important to many. We women, and men too are
still living in this struggle to understand each other. The same deep and
emotional struggle that our distant ancestors dealt with. To understand the
relationship between the two, we need to look at how female religion
differed from male religion.

The Earth Goddess

The female part of spirituality was an extension of the earth itself. In
mammals the mother shares her space with the family, for ancient people
the Earth was the home of the animals and all living things, and provided
everything to the people. It's easy to see why the feminine was linked to the
earth. In some parts of the World the Earth Goddess is represented by a
three spirals, the three cycles of life, birth, life and death. For ancient
people death was not something to be feared but was the flip side of life,
another place which our world couldn't exist without, and a place which
was also alive. The Goddess's symbol of birth was sometimes a flower.

Psilocybin and female religion

Mushrooms containing the psychoactive substance psilocybin have been
thought to change human psychology and affect the course of evolution.
Psilocybin isn't the only substance that lets us see different states of
consciousness. These substances should only be taken by experienced
individuals and where legal, the same states of consciousness can be
reached by other safer means. The place that people encountered on these
trips became the world below in legends. This was the dead or sleeping
world, the imaginative side of the mystical realm. It seemed logical that
when we sleep we dream, female religion was practiced through the spiral
of the dream world. These visuals during trips take a person into the world
below, not just the place of death and sleeping, the place of new life and
endless creativity. They believed that the goddess collected our forgotten
dreams and that a godly prince or princess could bring them back. This
advice holds as much now as it did then. The secrets of women and of our
deeper consciousness can only be brought back by a person who respects
women and human sensitivity.

The God Groups

The gods of the heaven or skies were risen souls who had become eternal
faces of the sky god. The intermediate gods were the animals and plants
and the intermediate between us and the skies. The intermediate gods
worked in our lives as psychological forces that were personified as gods.
The lower gods were the personified forces of creation which were the
basis and substance of the other two groups. Later religions have destroyed
relics of our early psychology, but they survive in mythology and culture.
The world above and the world below were visualized as the flip sides of
our world, the soul even had three parts. Upon death, the soul of the
enlightened one god would be taken to the skies. The soul of the surface
would live on in the people, and the soul of the below would be
transformed back into that energy to become the chaotic natural foces. So
the gods lived in the skies, in temples and idols, and in the natural forces,
the sea and the earth. The primal gods were the cause of the animals and
plants and of all life, the essence of creation. They were sometimes
transfigured, having many tentacles or heads. A many headed sea serpent
or an octopus or a many headed dog. Psilocybin transformed the world for
people, they believed that the mushrooms were a door into the world of
the old gods of creation. When our brains discovered this new sense of
meaningful psychology, it created our psychology now. And the creative
forces we once investigated are what now fear us because we have become
too comfortable.

The world below of the goddess was a place of life and of death. Things
decay here, and their energy became the natural forces. Fungi and
mushrooms are a major part of this biological process, turning decaying life
into new life. It was important for people to remember that psilocybin was
the doorway to the unlimited creative mind, where destruction and
creation both abound. Psilocybin provided us with unlimited creativity and
imagination. It was important not to get lost in that place so that a person
wouldn't loose part of their soul to have it reanimated by this primordial
power, where it would feel lost and endlessly consume energy and drain the
person's energy. This is obviously an attempt to understand the addiction of
beauty, like drug addiction or pornography addiction. In the old stories a
soul had to be firmly balanced in the body, the world below is a place where
things grow and where things rot and get eaten. Our consciousness passed
to the world of the Goddess in these rituals, as the earth naturally
transforms our dead cells and is always taking energy from us. But the loss
or separation of someone's soul was naturally avoided, which seems to
have become the inspiration for zombies in the Caribbean and draugrs in
Norse mythology.
The bones and teeth of animals were commemorated as special objects
linking people to the world below and to the past people who lived and
walked the earth. They believed that these spirits still lived in the world
below in their own time and place, and that it was the duality of male and
female worship that made them fall out of existence, disallowed from
entering our world again they became giants or little people in our
imagination. Something major must have happened in our psychology
because of different types of worship. It might have pushed humans out of
their homeland and driven us to try and consume the planet, ironically the
thing that the myths warn against. Many animals became extinct, so did
Neandertals and probably other hominids. But back when man was first
evolving with psilocybin these other life forms still lived, and they became
mythologized in legends and stories even until today.

The Titans or primordial Gods

The Greek Titans were primordial gods of chaos who were often at odds
with the Olympians. The relationship between the gods is complex,
sometimes there is no clear difference between the two groups and at least
some of the Olympian Gods came from the Titans. The tentacles or many
mouths might be the psychological interpretation to the united single
consciousness experienced on psilocybin. The tentacles reaching from the
earth and sea are the cords that tie us to the world below. When we trip
these tentacles or heads were the fantasy of being taken to the world of the
below and temporarily becoming a part of these forces or gods. We woke
up after seeing the visuals, by these it was believed people brought the
goddess into incarnation in human form. Other people like Buddha or
Krishna probably originate from a male equivalent of godly incarnation.

Psilocybin mushrooms allowed people to contact their inner 'gods'. They

deified these in the normal world in objects and places. Temples, stones or
everyday objects. The Titans always came before the others gods, so they
were seen as the very forces that formed the world into being. These gods
later became fallen gods with the demonization of the feminine, having
fallen to earth and formed the mountains and layers of rock. These gods
were attributed to the formation of mountains and seas, special landmarks
or objects were formed by these giants and they were commemorated and
remembered in this way. By extension all humans and animals were these
fallen gods incarnation.

The First Gods had no gender

World stories describe a split of men and women. The primordial gods had
the appearance of many animals at once because they could call up the
energy and form of all things. They were not male or female, nor were the
first human looking gods, who were probably personifications of these
natural forces. Later gods became male or female, and this seems to
coincide with struggles for religious supremacy where the older, bigendered
religion splits into several opposing lines of belief.

Men and women split from each other. But as individuals this psychological
split into gender inequality can be reversed by experiencing the other layers
of our mind and bringing them all together. Some of us function okay in the
male and female gap in accordance with tradition and feel no need to delve
deeper. But the majority are more curious to go down the rabbit hole
because the wondering of our imagination and its separation into different
visuals can be a way of learning about ourselves. The things that we
experience when on a trip or during types of meditation is our own self
through from the point of imagination, it reminds us to respect the law of
nature and others and to work with them as a part of our life. The alerted
consciousness lets us see and know our self in other forms that we can see.
Rather than being threatened by our nature and our inner world, we
embrace it sensibly and bring it to balance in the surface.

Most of us are not completely straight or gay, we're not totally intense or
totally sensitive. We are a mixture of the male and female flowing through
our mind, and the oppression of women and misunderstanding of men has
pushed our natural nature to the back of the mind, we're afraid to go there.
Our feelings and art are always there, but not many of us can take that
much of ourselves and prefer to develop their beautiful life solely in this
world without ever delving into their innermost thoughts and feelings.
Some people never open their inner rabbit hole to our hidden feminine
psychology. Some people don't feel the need to. But a lot do, and we've
been misunderstood.