Patriarchal Myths in Western and Mesoamerican Civilizations, Annulment of Women and Estrangement of the World

Abstract

The comparative method applied to symbolic hermeneutics researches allows us to identify the annulment of women and their subsumption to the sphere of nature in the Middle Eastern and Greek origin myths that guided the evolution of Western civilization. In this article, we propose the hypothesis that there is a relationship between oppression and annulment of the feminine and the estrangement for the Nature in the western world. Following a similar pattern in the opposite direction, in Mesoamerican civilization, communication with Nature despised the voice of women, which ultimately resulted in the inability of inter-human communication. The creation of patriarchal myths follows patterns whose structures are repressed at the bottom of the collective unconscious, where the vital impulses of Eros and Thanatos are found. The Aztec civilization represents a paradigmatic example of this issue, whose goddess has similarities with the goddess Kali of India.