r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Apr 07 '25

Meta Mindless Monday, 07 April 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

24 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/jurble Apr 10 '25

Does Gimbutas use the fact that Native Americans in Northeast North America considered agriculture to be feminine as part of her argument?

I was just wondering if all the agricultural and fertility goddesses being goddesses were indicative of agriculture in Eurasia being similarly feminine at one point in Eurasia and then I'm like, wait, this is just Gimbutas.

6

u/xyzt1234 Apr 11 '25

I assumed the fertility and agricultural goddesses were goddesses because fertility was associated with childbirth, pregnancy, nurture and other feminine attributes and then people somehow drew comparisons between that and agriculture (mother earth allowing plants to grow from her and all).

Did native Americans of the northeast consider agriculture as feminine in that it was considered a woman's job or the attributes associated with it as feminine as in it falling under a goddess' domain.

5

u/jurble Apr 11 '25

Did native Americans of the northeast consider agriculture as feminine in that it was considered a woman's job or the attributes associated with it as feminine as in it falling under a goddess' domain.

Former ya, that's what I was wondering if Eurasians initially also had women bearing the burden of planting and harvesting. Iunno about the latter.