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We have even seen goddesses set above the gods, and women worshipped as deities. Now I submit to the judgment of my readers what do these examples of mother-right show, if not that, broadly speaking, women were the dominant force in this stage of the family. No doubt too much importance may be attached to the idea of women ruling. This is an error I have tried to guard against.
In this way it destroyed the solitary family, by its opposition to the authority and will of the husband and father. These conclusions will be strengthened as we continue our examination of mother-right customs as we shall find them in all parts of the world.
It is, therefore, the more surprising that so many traces of this anterior condition should have remained in the Grecian and other tribes which Professor Bachofen has pointed out, since gyneocracy and mother-right, as discussed by him, must have originated among these tribes when under the gentile organization, and with descent in the female line.
Starcke, pp. 249-250, citing Bachofen’s Antiquarische Briefe, Vol. I, p. 140. Here a brief digression into the early mythologies may be made, although this question of the connection between mother-right and religious ideas is one on which I have already enlarged. The most primitive theogony is that of Mother-Earth and her son. Goddesses are at first of greater importance than gods.
I hold it to be a perfectly natural arrangement the practical outgrowth of the practical needs of primitive peoples. The strongest and the one certain claim for a belief in mother-right and mother-power must rest on this foundation. It is left for the second part of my book to prove how far I am right in what I claim. “It’s not too late to seek a newer world: *
And there are other traces all pointing to the conclusion that in the civilisation of primitive Babylon mother-right was still in active force. H. Ellis, Psychology of Sex, Vol. VI, p. 393. Let us now turn our attention to the Græco-Roman civilisation. It is convenient to take first a brief glance at Rome.
Was the foundation of the family based on the authority of the father, or of the mother? If on that of the father, how is mother-kin and mother-right to be explained? These are among the questions that must be answered. Not till this is done, can we establish any theory of mother-descent, or estimate its effect on the status of women. The whole subject is a very wide and complicated one.
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