Cyborgs Vs Earth Goddess

Cyborgs Versus
the Earth Goddess

Men's Domestication of
Women and Animals
and Female Resistance

by 

m seenarine

2017 Xpyr Press. 358 pages

ISBN: 0692966005

Available on Amazon, Bookshop, and other stores

"In a rousing, incisive tome that spans centuries, Moses Seenarine deftly unpacks the suppressed histories of female-centered cultures that pre-dated traditional patriarchal hierarchies based on the colonial subjugation of women, children and animals.  Using Stone Age Goddess culture and iconography as a guidepost, Seenarine argues that patriarchal dominance was an anomaly in prehistory.  He explores the ways in which female-centered communities established peaceful, communistic societies anchored by female gathering rather than male hunting.  In so doing, he seeks to challenge the prevailing Darwinian narrative that cultures based on male dominance — predicated on meat consumption, territorialism, misogynistic power and asymmetrical control — were ultimately the most successful and “inevitable” systems of human social development. Acknowledging his privileged position as a male scholar and researcher, Seenarine provides a valuable overview for those interested in the crucial connection between the radical politics of ecofeminism and the contemporary battle over climate change, food justice and sustainability." - Sikivu Hutchinson, Author, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars 

Table of Contents

Glossary	i
Acknowledgments	iv
Preface by Kirsten Danielle	viii
Foreword by Trista Hendren	ix
I: ECOGYNOCENTRISM
1: RECLAIMING THE GODDESS
ASIA's Journey 2121.01	1
Naming the Problem – Men (♂ )	2
10,000 Years of ♂ Dis-order	3
Men's Domesticating Mindset	4
♂ False His-story	5
Man Versus 'Beast'	6
Reclaiming Her-story ( ♀ )	8
Seven Domestications	9
Ecogynocentrism	11
♂ Ending of Ecogynocentrism	12
Cyborgs, the New Prometheus	13
Conclusion	14
2: ♀ SUBJECTS TO ♂ OBJECTS
ASIA's Journey 2121.02	17
Introduction	18
♀ Roles & the Goddess	18
Greek Titaness: Metis/Wisdom	19
The Great Fall of ♀	20
From Free ♀ to ♂ Tools	21
♀ Resistance	23
Is 'Cyborgs' ♂ Bashing?	24
Outline	26
Conclusion	27
II: PALEO ECOGYNOCENTRISM (3M TO 12,000 BP)
3: HOMINID
ASIA's Journey 2121.03	29
Introduction	30
Measuring Time	30
1st Domestication: Male Apes	31
Pongo: Orangutan	32
Gorilla	33
Pan: Chimpanzee	34
Pan: Bonobo	34
Conclusion	36
4: HOMININ
ASIA's Journey 2121.04	38
Introduction	38
Hominid to Hominin	39
H. Floresiensis	40
H. Naledi	41
H. Neanderthal	41
Who Killed Off Neanderthals?	41
H. Denisovan	42
Progress As ♂ Carnism	43
Conclusion	44
5: HOMO SAPIENS
ASIA's Journey 2121.05	46
Introduction	47
Plant-based Hominins	47
Difference - Bipedal Apes	48
Dawn of 'Modern' Sapiens	50
Homo Social Evolution	51
Childcare & Evolution	53
Mitochondrial 'Eve'	55
Sex-Determination	55
Conclusion	56
6: WOMAN-THE-GATHERER
ASIA's Journey 2121.06	58
Introduction	58
Woman-the-Gatherer	59
Paleo Carb Diet	60
Losing Gut Flora	61
Animals in Paleo Art	62
Gynocentric Dancing	63
Conclusion	64
7: FEMALE FIRE-KEEPER
ASIA's Journey 2121.07	66
Introduction	66
2nd Domestication: Fire	67
Man-the-Fire-Hunter	68
♀ Hearth-fire	69
3rd Taming: Fire Farming	69
♀ Cooking	70
Fire & ♀ Ritual	71
Conclusion	73
8: FEMALE ARTISTS
ASIA's Journey 2121.08	75
Introduction	75
Maternal Brain	76
Grandmother Hypothesis	76
Early Paleo Art	77
♀ Hand-prints	78
Woman/Goddess Figures	79
Avdeevo Woman/Goddess	80
Why Portable Art of ♀ ?	80
Goddess of Mothers	82
Conclusion	82
9: PALEO SEX CHOICE
ASIA's Journey 2121.09	84
Introduction	85
Are ♂ 'Driven' to Rape?	85
Feminist Critique of Darwin	86
♀ Choice in Sex Selection	87
Unrestrained ♀	88
Medicine ♀	89
4th Taming: Wolves	90
Conclusion	91
10: MAN-THE-KILLER?
ASIA's Journey 2121.10	93
Introduction	94
Sexual Differentiation	94
Demonic Males?	95
Megafauna Extinction	95
Paleo Wars?	96
New Stone Age Genocides	97
Socialized Gene Expression	99
♂ Have Inferior Genes?	100
Conclusion	101
11: PALEO-FEMALE CULTURE
ASIA's Journey 2121.11	103
Introduction	104
♀ Bodies	104
♀ Blood Power	105
♀ Language	106
♀ Pottery	107
♀ Dress & Textile	107
Animal Folktales	108
Conclusion	109
III: NEOLITHIC GYNOCENTRISM (12,000 TO 7,000 BP)
12: FIFTH TAMING - CROPS
ASIA's Journey 2121.12	111
Introduction	111
5th Domestication: ♀ Farming	112
Why Intensive Agriculture?	113
Sedentary Diet	114
New Stone Age ♀	115
Mehrgarh	116
Gynocentric Pet - Cats	116
Harvest Goddesses	117
Conclusion	118
13: EARTH GODDESSES
ASIA's Journey 2121.13	120
Introduction	121
Mother/Earth Goddesses	121
African Goddesses	122
Australian Goddesses	123
Near East Goddesses	123
South Asian Goddesses	124
East Asian Goddesses	124
American Goddesses	125
European Goddesses	125
Conclusion	126
14: LADY OF THE BEASTS
ASIA's Journey 2121.14	128
Introduction	128
New Stone Age Europe	129
Aegean Cultures	129
Animalism	130
Lady of the 'Beasts'	131
She-Bear, the Great Mother	132
Other Animal Goddesses	132
Sacred Vulva & Sexuality	133
Conclusion	134
15: GODDESS BEING
ASIA's Journey 2121.15	136
Introduction	137
Moon Goddess: ♀ Time	137
Triple Goddesses: ♀ Cycle	138
Goddess Theory: Gimbutas	139
Deer Goddess: ♀ Spirituality	140
Mound/Megalith: ♀ Belief	140
Oracles: ♀ Prophecy	141
Goddess Cybele: ♀ Legacy	142
Sibyl: ♀ Legends	143
Conclusion	145
16: GYNOCENTRIC POWER
ASIA's Journey 2121.16	147
Introduction	147
♀ Property	148
Matrilocal Dating	148
♀ Governance	149
Mothers' Gift Economy	150
Matrilocal Research	151
♀ Inner Orientation	152
Roman Goddess: Justitia	153
Modern Matrilineality	153
Conclusion	155
17: THEORIZING HISTORY
ASIA's Journey 2121.17	157
Introduction	158
Gyno-Socialism	158
Capitalist-based ♂ Science	159
Gimbutas's Spinning	160
♂ Dismissal of Gimbutas	160
Feminist Backlash	161
Prehistory Was ♀	162
Roman Goddess: Aequitas	163
Conclusion	164
IV: RISE OF CYBORGS (8,000 TO 5,000 BP)
18: TAMING NATURE
ASIA's Journey 2121.18	166
Introduction	167
Yamnaya ♂ Invasion	167
Neolithic Y-Bottleneck	169
Monopolizing ♀ Surplus	170
Mound Cities: Çatalhöyük	170
♂ Cities & 'Mountains'	171
Greek Titaness: Nyx/Night	172
Conclusion	173
19: TAMING THE 'BEAST'
ASIA's Journey 2121.19	176
Introduction	177
♂ Bodies	177
Is the Y Going Extinct?	177
6th Colonization: Ruminants	178
Chronology of Domesticates	179
♂ Animal-based Economy	179
♂ Transcending Animals & ♀	180
War and Masculinity	181
Angelic Men Vs Earthlings	183
♂ Supremacy Over Animals	184
Conclusion	185
20: WARHORSE & TOXIC MASCULINITY
ASIA's Journey 2121.20	187
Introduction	188
Sacred Equine	188
Equid to Horse	189
♂ Chariotry & Warfare	189
♂ War Horses	190
Horse as Symbolism	191
♂ Bull Gods	191
Egyptian Animal Sacrifice	192
Greek Titaness: Themis/Order	192
Bronze Age Queens	193
Conclusion	195
21: CODIFYING ♂ PROPERTY
ASIA's Journey 2121.21	197
Introduction	197
7th Domestication: Females	198
Animal Husbandry Laws	199
♀ as Property of ♂	200
Babylonian Masculinity	202
Literacy: Codifying Patriarchy	203
Greek Titaness: Dike/Justice	205
Bronze Age ♀ Resistance	206
Conclusion	208
22: MASTERING GAIA
ASIA's Journey 2121.22	210
Introduction	210
Subverting Goddess Myths	211
♂ Myths - Medusa	213
♂ Myths – Persephone	213
♂ Myths – Female Rivalry	214
Removing Sacred from Earth	215
Elizabeth Gould Davis	216
Merlin Stone	217
♀ Resistance in Christendom	218
Conclusion	220
V: CYBORG TERROR & THEORY (PRESENT)
23: TERRORIZING ANIMALS
ASIA's Journey 2121.23	222
Introduction	222
Theorizing Animality	223
Naming the 'Other'	224
The 'Other' is Us	225
Animals and Hierarchy	226
Elite ♂ Progress	227
♂ Deviant Violence	228
Animals-as-Capital	229
♂ War and Ecocide	230
Conclusion	231
24: 'CIVILIZING' FEMALES
ASIA's Journey 2121.24	233
Introduction	234
♂ Economics	235
♂ Sex-Based Oppression	235
'Empowered' ♀ in USA?	236
♀ Employment Inequality	238
Wasting ♀ Time	239
Woman-the-Farmer	240
Structural ♀ 'Empowerment'	241
Empowering ♂ NGOs	242
Greek Titaness: Adrestia	242
Conclusion	243
25: TERRORIZING FEMALES
ASIA's Journey 2121.25	245
Introduction	246
♂ Colonization of ♀ Bodies	246
♀ Reproductive Subjugation	247
Cyborgs' Child Brides	248
Cyborg Harassment	249
♂ Domestic Violence	250
Cyborg Rape Culture	251
♂ Inter-sectional Misogyny	253
♀ Resistance & Femicide	253
War and Misogyny	254
Greek Titaness: Nemesis	255
Conclusion	256
26: PORNIFYING CULTURE
ASIA's Journey 2121.26	258
Introduction	258
Misogynist Media	259
Shades of ♀ Reduction	259
Misogynist Success	260
♀ Complicity	261
♀ Beauty & Misogyny	262
Disposable Females	263
Porn & ♀ Abuse	263
Anal Domination of ♀	264
Acting Like a Man	265
Greek Titaness: Erinyes	266
Conclusion	267
27: THEORIZING 'FEMALE'
ASIA's Journey 2121.27	269
Introduction	269
Cyborgs' Dualism	270
Rejecting Difference	271
Trans(sending) 'Females'	271
Essentialist Stigma	272
Trans Critical is Intersectional	273
Strategic Essentialism	274
Feminist Appropriations	275
Revolutionary Women	275
Robotic 'Females'	277
Re-claiming Earth/Goddess	278
Conclusion	279
VI: RESISTANCE
28: RADICAL ECOFEMINISM
ASIA's Journey 2121.28	281
Introduction	281
Ecology & Feminism	282
Critique of Conservation	282
Revolutionary Ecofeminism	284
Ecofeminism and Women	286
Plant-based Feminists	286
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	287
Greek Titaness: Gaia	288
Gynocentric Continuity	289
Analysis to Praxis	289