While in the ancient age of paganism the cult of fertility was celebrated, in monotheism large changes occurred and everything that belonged to paganism was demonised. The cult of Grand Mother was targeted specifically which can be seen through the monotheistic dogma where the patriarchal principal was emphasized according to which the only deity was a male figure. But, when we analyse Islam and Christianity in detail we come to a conclusion that even modern monotheism didn't succeed in its intent to repress the cult of fertility and the belief in Grand Mother.
While in Christianity the idea that god is male is being constantly imposed (i.e. the father), in Islam god has no sexual characteristics. The holy ghost would be the closest thing to what the Grand Mother represented but all sexual characteristics were taken away from it and that in the beginning ensured its intangibility. Even though virgin Marry in later stages became all that which was represented by the Grand Mother, like the Egyptian Izida, she was quite cleverly "pushed" out of genesis and those first important details of religious doctrine. In such an ingenious way her influence was again marginalised to such an extent that she cannot usurp the dominant male principle. But, while the first religion regards Satan as a male, the second one negates it and actually in him sees a female, but again through a masked role of androgyny since here to the dreadful thought that a female principle could represent divinity wanted to be marginalized, and even if it was in the end negative.
Namely, in the Islamic tradition, through various hadith we can find Tiamat in the form of Iblis (Satan) for whom it was believed to be androgynous, a being able to reproduce itself. According to what is presented by hadith, Iblis is a being which is very fertile which causes him (her) to lay three thousand eggs each day out of which demons hatch. If we now disregard the classical monotheistic hatred towards women moulded through some kind of totally ambiguous being, which is a divine opposition, we cannot disregard fertility and the power of reproduction of that being, basically a copy of the key elements from the ancient cult of the Grand Mother. Another fact which is of the utmost importance in illuminating the way to the Grand Mother is contained in the fact that the throne of Iblis, the ruler of dark, is located on an island in the middle of the sea. The element of water which is inseparable from the Grand Mother and the creation of the world and universe is the natural habitat of the being that produces life every day.
While in Christianity the idea that god is male is being constantly imposed (i.e. the father), in Islam god has no sexual characteristics. The holy ghost would be the closest thing to what the Grand Mother represented but all sexual characteristics were taken away from it and that in the beginning ensured its intangibility. Even though virgin Marry in later stages became all that which was represented by the Grand Mother, like the Egyptian Izida, she was quite cleverly "pushed" out of genesis and those first important details of religious doctrine. In such an ingenious way her influence was again marginalised to such an extent that she cannot usurp the dominant male principle. But, while the first religion regards Satan as a male, the second one negates it and actually in him sees a female, but again through a masked role of androgyny since here to the dreadful thought that a female principle could represent divinity wanted to be marginalized, and even if it was in the end negative.
Namely, in the Islamic tradition, through various hadith we can find Tiamat in the form of Iblis (Satan) for whom it was believed to be androgynous, a being able to reproduce itself. According to what is presented by hadith, Iblis is a being which is very fertile which causes him (her) to lay three thousand eggs each day out of which demons hatch. If we now disregard the classical monotheistic hatred towards women moulded through some kind of totally ambiguous being, which is a divine opposition, we cannot disregard fertility and the power of reproduction of that being, basically a copy of the key elements from the ancient cult of the Grand Mother. Another fact which is of the utmost importance in illuminating the way to the Grand Mother is contained in the fact that the throne of Iblis, the ruler of dark, is located on an island in the middle of the sea. The element of water which is inseparable from the Grand Mother and the creation of the world and universe is the natural habitat of the being that produces life every day.
