The word we normally use is family which comes from the latin word “famulus” literaly means;servants of a household. That made me ponder…

Lately, I have been entertaining myself with series broadcasted in Netflix and HBO. The variety of ancestors (read Vikings, royalty, immigrants) and supernaturals is vast though have a common denominator; the New Sealanders have a beautiful word for it kohänga meaning nest.

In order for a nest to thrive and be succesful is to function together. The leading figure always is in need of a so-called wing man and the respect of the rest of members.The better structures the more the power it beholds.

Throughout centuries there have been family names that are still very well known and respected.Think about the Rothschilds or the Kennedys or even the Ming dynasty rings a bell. The Corleone and the Sympsons are a big influence BELIEVE IT OR NOT.

Patriarchism established the “modern” composition of what a kin structure should look like. Well we all know what is left of that. In these days with divorse and gaymarriage we are far from the male religion established and going more and more towards where it all began…

Roaming through my anthropology books, I encounter one that is written by a journalist. After roaming the earth visiting the remaining legacies of matriarchy, he went further with the investigation. That led him to the dawn of religion…

Before farming, the hunting men were unaware of their part in procreation. Hence the women were worshipped as Goddesses. Once figured out their active role in the miracle, they started to claim woman and child as their own…

So if patriarchism is merely a strategy, how did they not figure out that if the active one leads to destruction, another strategy could be employed?…

By all means, the formula contains the male energy, it has a different place and importance in the equation; The Euler line would be the formula by excellence in my humble opinion, being the female energy the circle itself!

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Wishing u harmony and balance,

Irena Phaedra