Saturday, October 21, 2017

Hidden Berehynia

I've been thinking about leaves and flowers in art.  I started collecting pictures that I call, The Hidden Berehynia.  It's on Pinterest.com, if you want to see.

I'm finding a lot of them.  They are traditional artwork from Slavic countries that resemble the Goddess Embroideries.  By the way, one day I wanted to buy a copy of one of the Goddess Embroidery books by Mary B. Kelly.  All her books were out of print, and old copies were selling for between $600 and 800 USD.  That's terrible.

Well, it seems to me that I'm sitting on a big important thought, like a thought-bomb.
Lots of people would want this thought if they knew about it.  I don't know how to share it.  Not sure how to tell this story.  Maybe it should be a book?   If I were a writer, I'd try to make a living at it.

Idea:  all those leaves and flowers in European art are not just decoration, they represent fertility, abundance, & a happy future.  They are everywhere - in calico fabrics, in wall paper patterns, in architecture, in graphic arts...  These decorations represent the part of European cultures that existed before Christianity - they are pagan, and they connect back to art of the Stone Age.

The Hidden Berehynia pictures prove the connection between the Goddess Embroideries and the decorative flourishes in European art.  So now I'm really curious about Baroque and Rococco art:  what was going on in that time period?  Why did people start using so many flowery designs?  It seems to me that more flowers equals more pagan.  Were they rebelling against the authority of the Church?  Were they trying to show that nature was on their side?

There's more.  If I'm correct, then it explains why we have 7 billion people on earth now.  It's not just because we made a lot of food.  It's also because European thought became dominant, and Europeans are all about fertility.  It might also explain why Catholics do not have women priests.  It might explain a lot of things...

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