Comments on: When humans began to understand procreation http://cakesforthequeenofheaven.org/blog/?p=90 cakes curriculum experiences and tips Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:05:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rev Shirley Ranck http://cakesforthequeenofheaven.org/blog/?p=90&cpage=1#comment-315 Rev Shirley Ranck Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:05:35 +0000 http://cakesforthequeenofheaven.org/blog/?p=90#comment-315 The truth is that we are speculating about Old Stone Age times, way before written records and we just don’t know when human beings first learned about the male role in conception. I don’t think early people were as ignorant as we often imagine them to be. However we just don’t know. The best scholarly speculation on the subject is in the two books mentioned on page 48 of Cakes Vol. I. {“The Alphabet Versus The Goddess,”] by Leonard Schlain, and the one by Carol Lee Flinders. You would have to read more than the short summaries to get a sense of their ideas, but they are very interesting. The other possibility is Joseph Campbell who may have written something on this topic in The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology. But feel free to say to your group that nobody really knows. We know there was a shift in human culture from emphasizing and empowering women to more and more empowering of men, and there are many hypotheses as to how and why that happened. So far nobody seems to have the whole truth.

I hope this helps. Very best wishes to you and your Cakes group!

Shirley Ranck

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