BrahminBoss
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Therefore, a woman could traditionally participate in the sacred hierarchical
order only in a mediated fashion, through her relationship with a man. In India women
did not have their own initiation even when they belonged to a higher caste: before
they got married they did not belong to the sacred community of the noble ones
(ārya) other than through their fathers, and when they were married, through their
husbands, who also represented the mystical head of the family.In Doric Hellas, the
woman in her entire life did not enjoy any rights; before getting married, her κύρις
was her father. In Rome, in conformity with a similar spirituality, a woman, far from
being “equal” to man, was juridically regarded as a daughter of her own husband
(filiae loco) and as a sister of her own children (sororis loco); when she was a young
girl, she was under the potestas of her father, who was the leader and the priest of his
own gens; when she marred, according to a rather blunt expression she was in manu
viri. These traditional decrees regulating a woman’s dependency can also be found
in other civilizations;4 far from being unjust and arrogant, as the modern “free spirits”
are quick to decry, they helped to define the limits and the natural place of the
only spiritual path proper to the pure feminine nature.
order only in a mediated fashion, through her relationship with a man. In India women
did not have their own initiation even when they belonged to a higher caste: before
they got married they did not belong to the sacred community of the noble ones
(ārya) other than through their fathers, and when they were married, through their
husbands, who also represented the mystical head of the family.In Doric Hellas, the
woman in her entire life did not enjoy any rights; before getting married, her κύρις
was her father. In Rome, in conformity with a similar spirituality, a woman, far from
being “equal” to man, was juridically regarded as a daughter of her own husband
(filiae loco) and as a sister of her own children (sororis loco); when she was a young
girl, she was under the potestas of her father, who was the leader and the priest of his
own gens; when she marred, according to a rather blunt expression she was in manu
viri. These traditional decrees regulating a woman’s dependency can also be found
in other civilizations;4 far from being unjust and arrogant, as the modern “free spirits”
are quick to decry, they helped to define the limits and the natural place of the
only spiritual path proper to the pure feminine nature.
