Atheists & Agnostics
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(17,505 posts)LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Wait.
But if I could *be* a god. I'd be Dionysus.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Wonder Woman!
nil desperandum
(654 posts)the WHO wrote a pretty good song about her....she's just a girl, just a girl, just a girl..
LostOne4Ever
(9,597 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]were considered inferior.
What is not to love?[/font]
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)When women are held as equals.
LostOne4Ever
(9,597 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Very good point.
Though I do think society's opinion of women has greatly increased from what I understand it to be back then.[/font]
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)But she preferred diplomacy, unlike Abraham's tyrannical deity who prefers to sort after.
mountain grammy
(27,280 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)A spear and a high def sat dish ....
onager
(9,356 posts)Ma'at, ancient Egyptian goddess of truth, order, law and justice.
When you croaked, your heart was weighed in a scale against a feather from her wing. If your heart outweighed the feather, you got introduced to her nasty little sidekick, Ammut The Soul-Eater. A critter with the head of a crocodile, body of a hippo and butt of a lion. Ammut ate your heart first, then the rest of you. And you did not get to attend the big Afterlife cocktail party hosted by Isis and Osiris.
Today when an Egyptian Mom is feeding her baby, she will say "mut-mut-mut!" IOW, "Eat up, kid!" A direct reference to Ammut. Or at least I was told that by Actual Egyptians:
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)But I've always been partial to Artemis, the protector of women and Zeus help you if you piss her off.