The first drum of the mother’s heartbeat, later weaponized
Dominator cultures thrived using destruction, from The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
As celibate men came to power, the drums and instruments were banned. Eventually women were not even allowed to speak in church, let alone play music. Though this eventually reversed as modern nuns now find spirituality in drum circles.
In America, women play piano and the flute, but nothing with that deep thud of the drum. The author went on to listen to drum music from around the world.
Listening didn’t come close to active music making
Conga drums of course in Africa
More powerful in combination
Unusual cycles of beats that modern training makes harder to learn
She had no idea she was embracing one of the world‘s oldest living traditions: female drumming
As she was collecting images of the oldest examples of drums around the world, the oldest images images and depictions were almost all of women
The author traced the symbols that were on the drums further and further back in time
Ancient Depictions
Womb like caves, and the seeds in the ground and the mounds are like her pregnant belly, and the bodies are the seed
Siberian women still keep track of lunar calendar similarly sometimes they even have a Volvo on them
Hundreds of women figurines have been found and only a few men
And in Israel, they’ve been found to be in the house in the house in the domestic homes, almost tucked away and not in public, but very common in private
Birth was the earliest sacred mystery
Linguistics
The Egyptian word for milk belongs in a group of sacred words with sacred sounds
Sanskrit “me” means mommy and womb AND moon
Melissa, the ancient word for peace and Deborah
both of these with the ISS and RA sounds sounds
Ancient words preserving both vagina, woo, and river womb
Egypt
11th Dynasty Egypt Hawthorne had caves dedicated to Hathor
The vulture goddess was one of the prime ones of the entire Nile Valley named Nekbhet
The bird goddess was always a woman, and her wings would become the wings of angels
Honey was used in medicines like the marshmallow
Vultures transform, dead things into life as eggs same would be seen for rats and raccoons that bear that name, and those were also considered mobile sacred amount of modified
Crete
Ancient Crete goddess, Rea played her cave drum
Knossos Crete and Troy, all these names have the sacred sounds
Europe
Arata Cave in Spain with honey. These were considered sacred in those and Italian homes to the female
Greece
Both Dionisis and Zeus born in caves to drumming
Siberia
Barrio people of Siberia
Shaman, the men still dress in females clothes
Timelines:
27,000 BC we start to see the Venus figurines
9k BC: The calendar 1,500 years before the invention of agriculture
Goddess is figurines have been found from 7500 to 3500 BC in all three river basin
4,000 to 3000 BC we saw the springing of major civilizations along rivers.
It’s in this thousand years that the Egyptian civilization grew, as well as the Indian civilizations and Mesopotamian along the Tigres and Euphrates Rivers
Then from 3500 BC to 2000 BC she emerged as the goddess of the temples.
There is evidence of trade in the 3-2k’s BC, identical designs, beads, etc
Can list specifics, Ch 9, 1:44:39
Five cities discovered with thousands of years of continuation before 3500 BC
in the Harrapan group in the Indus Valley
covered roughly the size of Western Europe, on the Ravi River
Mohenjo-daro in the Middle East (Pakistan) laid out in same city plan as Harrapan.
intricate sewer and sanitation systems and bathrooms
