The world-wide symbol of the Great Mother was the pointed oval sign of the yoni, known as the “vesica piscis,” vessel of the fish. The Hindus associated the yonic symbol of the Goddess with the fishy smells of the female genitals. Chinese Great Mother Kwan-yin (yoni of yonis) often appeared as a fish goddess. Fish and womb were synonyms in Greek, as delphos meant both. The original oracle first belonged to the abyssal fish goddess under her pre-Hellenic name of Themis, often incarnate in a great fish, whale or dolphin (delphinos). The fish-goddess Aphrodite-Salacia was said to bring “salacity” through orgiastic fish eating on her sacred day, Friday. (Salacity means appeal to sexual desire). The Church inherited the Friday custom of eating fish on Friday, according to Walker, but not for the reason she alledges. Catholics fast on Friday because it was the day Christ was crucified. It was just another event that was grafted onto a pagan custom. I believe Catholics don’t eat fish on Friday anymore; it’s just habit, now. Christ is seen as a fish in those yonic symbols that resemble fish; people put them on their cars and put the word CHRIST superimposed on them. Christian authorities in the Roman Empire claimed the fish represented Christ because Greek “ichthys”-(fish)-was an acronym for Jesus Christ, Son of God. I am wondering how eating fish can bring on sexual desire, unless a certain species of fish has a chemical that….but this is mythology. But mythology hides truth. Look at the gods of Sumeria-all living, breathing and very intelligent people.
In Northern Europe there was a primal matriarchy called “the powerful ones” or the “divine grandmothers.” Freya was the ruling ancestress of the elder gods, before the arrival of Odin and the patriarchal Aesir. Myths said Odin learned all magic arts and divine power from Freya. Freya represented sexual love, and her alternate name, Frigg, became a word for sexual intercourse. Her consort, Fricco (Lover) is cognate with the phallic god Priapus, which comes from the root “prij”-to make love, which in turn leads to the modern “prick.”
Frey was the god of Yule, the pagan solstitial festival assimilated to Christmas. At the turning of the solar year, he was born of his virgin mother, sister, bride. Many songs were composed in honor of Freya by skalds; they were called “women’s songs, and they were strictly forbidden by the midieval church. Germans persistantly believed that Fridays were lucky days for weddings, being Freya’s day. Monks thought Friday the 13th was very unlucky because it also was Freya’s month, according to the old lunar calendar.
The Furies (also Erinyes) personified the vengeful mood of the Triple God Demeter, a punisher of sinners. They represented the scolding mother. Wherever a mother was insulted or murdered, the Erinyes appeared. “Like swift bitches they pursued all who had flouted blood kinship and the deference due to it.” Aeschylus called the Furies “Children of the Eternal Night.” Some said they were born of the castrated Heavenly Father, Uranus; others said they were older than any god. The Furies were also “fairies,” identified with witches because of their ability to lay curses on any who transgressed their law. These fairies may have been real witches who tried to defend the rights of women against enchroachment by Church laws. Furrow was a world-wide female genital symbol. The city of Rome was established by plowing a furrow, an act attributed to Romulus. The name of the zodiacal sign of the Virgin originally meant “Furrow.” Seed entering a furrow was always likened to semen entering the womb; savior gods entered the Mother in the form of seed and were reborn as new vegetation. Towns dug furrows around their circumference for protection and purification. Russian towns practiced this up to the 20th century. This was performed exclusively by women and they would beat up a man who dared to watch them.
