Pretty sure it was Christianity under the guise of stamping out heresy that cut away the sanctity of the stag in the wood.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore it was long in development. I'd even place it late, Renaissance maybe.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore if only because Christianity in early medieval europe was imprinted upon the old pagan spaces, the wells/springs/groves...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore ...became holy spaces. So it was long in development. I strongly suspect it was a Protestant thing, actually.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip yeah there were holdover rituals esp in medieval Christianity. But the goddess wasn't in her river anymore.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore but there was definitely this...idk, removal of the woman from the landscape? I mean women were assoc with magic...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore ...so I suspect that taking her away from it, or making her acceptable by Christianizing her in a way, the woman remains.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip she was diminished, made subordinate, declawed and defanged.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@civilwarbore which is why it's always interesting to me that those female saints who didn't sit back and shut up were reviled by so many.
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