Glossary
A sacred-nature religious culture where life, animals, caves, tombs, water, and earth are part of one life-giving order.
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Mother goddess civilization
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...let's read what she wrote. Okay? So, this is the mother goddess civilization, something that we thought we'd discuss a lot in this class...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...let's read what she wrote. Okay? So, this is the mother goddess civilization, something that we thought we'd discuss a lot in this class...."
Key Notes
Glossary
Jiang's term for the agricultural fertility world centered on womb, crops, stars, women, and communal ritual.
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"...let's read what she wrote. Okay? So, this is the mother goddess civilization, something that we thought we'd discuss a lot in this class...."
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"Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable houses in moderately sized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long..."
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"...means one God. That only one God exists. So the mother goddess civilization came about because of agriculture. And in an agricultural world you..."
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"...a religion developed in order to facilitate both called the mother goddess civilization. So the center of this religion is the womb. The woman's..."
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"And then with agriculture, you had the mother goddess civilization, because you needed fertility, right? The mother goddess, is able to give you more..."
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"give it to you okay so that's the mother goddess civilization then we switch to polytheism so why do we make the switch the..."
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"...understanding the world changes over time okay so in the mother goddess civilization there are two things about their world that's very different from..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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