I enjoy listening to V. Shiva’s voice. In her televised lecture, given on Mother’s Day, she spends a great deal of time speaking about Hinduism and the Great Mother, and less time talking in her Western scientist voice. This is opposite to her approach in “Stolen Harvest” where she talks science and politics, with dashes of Hinduism.  Again she has a lovely speaking voice.

 

Right off she reclaims the archetype of the Mother. She claims that patriarchy has caused the harder images of womanhood, ones held by some feminists, regarding what it means to be a woman.  She views women as caring, as nurturing and as bringing mothering to this planet, to life.

I love hearing about ancient Hindu festivals linked to seed and harvest, and nurturing and abundance. I hear many echos in my own Irish ancestory, before Saint Patrick (and others) conquered us.

Women were very primal to primal humanity, and earth was Mother. V. Shiva clearly believes that our best hope is to return to the Great Mother’s ways.