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The censorship of women that created witches and mermaids
The mermaid myth, when understood from a different perspective rather than the nostalgic artful fantasy, is a hint at the terrifying fear during women's struggle against patriarchal religious institutes. Throughout history there has been a battle of sexes, the most significant to be remembered is the gendercide of women in middle ages during the great medieval witch hunt. The church at that time owned all forms of text record distribution, monks rescribed books, and so they kept information. Can you imagine the internet owned by one insitute and the control of propoganda that would result? Women who were trained in the healing arts passed from generation to generation their knowledge, it was not common for it to have been written, as the church kept literacy to themselves to monopolise power. These healing women represented a threat to the patriarchal institute, as healing powers were regarded as divine and to be owned by the church only. Women that gained the knowlege over year of practice were therefore at higher risk than anyone, and they were the first to be accused of witches, executed horribly and burned alive.
Contemporary medicine established throughout Europe and the west, with a sad loss of plant medicine lore and phytology of their essential oils. The recent resurgence of appetite for the ancient healing arts is not innately because freedom of information via the internet. It is likely once again when you look at who has the monopoly to gain in those markets that the ominous force is that of the capitalist institutions seeking to capture all streams of revenue. Pharmeceutical companies, cosmetic companies, are all set to gain by seizing the opportunity to capture this market at the begining of it's growth curve in the west. Capitalist culture is cashing in on western ignorance of complimentary medicines which already exist in cultures unhampered by medieval treatment. Many marketing strategies falsely label their product as ‘aromatherapy' haircare, bath or spa products – in order to cash in on our ignorance to smart shopping of ingredients. In the west we are not brought up to be aware of the proper practices involving aromatherapy and essential oils, unlike many cultures of today who treat this as their only medicine - just like in the past.
The movement of the church to remove women healers from our society didn't just affect modern medicine today, but also created the mermaid myth, and many others like them. Take the possibility that there were many other professions in which women excelled and were therefore at risk in, you would have to question what would have happened women who were well respected, who brought in an income desperate to the failing survival of a provencial village. Villagers would have sought to protect these women and maybe even assisted in embellishing stories to cover where they were ill-gaining their means of survival. Not that women were doing anything wrong, but in the eyes of the church or any patriarchal institute of that time a woman had to be seen as submissive, and certainly not doing a role better than a man could. What if these were fisher women, pearl divers? An income so valuable to a village, no-one having this resource was likely to hand over their women to the church to be burned alive. In fact the church is said to have cursed mermaids, accusing them of luring men and being demons. Now when you regard them as merely women, it is not so strange to realise that these women are recorded to have burst into tears.
Now I have some surprising news... there is a receeding culture in the world of real women pearl divers, on 70 of such in existance, the Ama of Japan. Back in the 1940's there were over 6000 regularly practicsing Ama divers. The freediving women, and many like them who do so naturally, it is common for depths of 30m, for up to 3 minutes at a time. Sea temperatures can be as low as 50 degrees farenheit, that would kill a man in 20 minutes, but not a woman with her different physiological fat distribution. They would dive topless, unrestrained by clothing to forage the sea bed for edible weeds, shellfish, sponge, pearl, and abalone. It would have only taken one outsider to see a woman in the sea without understanding, to start the rumour of mermaids. Would a sea neighbouring village have given up the secrets of it's women so easily? The church alongside villages desperate to keep their economy going would have embellished the mermaid myths and distracted witch hunters from their sea foraging maidens.
About the Author
I am a costume artist for film and carnival productions, including the making of mermaid tales. I have a special love and ability of enjoying the sea in freediving and testing out my mermaid tails. I continue my research into the natural arts as can be seen on http://beautyapothecary.info where you may read further research on my articles including some beautiful photos.
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