Earth-goddess cults survived on the periphery of patriarchal sun cults as complements to them

Evidence

Throughout the Greek and Roman rationalist civilizations, chthonian cults subsisted. They could usually be found on the periphery of official religious life; they even ended up, as in Eleusis, taking the form of mysteries: they had the opposite meaning of sun cults, where man asserted his will for separation and spirituality; but they complemented them; man sought to overcome his solitude by ecstasy: that is the goal of mysteries, orgies, and bacchanals. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 340

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts a simple conquest narrative of patriarchy wiping out goddess worship; parallels the ADDENDUM on sacrifice as a stabilizer of stratified societies — mysteries function as sanctioned outlets. — connects to: Patriarchy was geographically universal in the ancient world — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3175

Broader Connections

• Patriarchy was geographically universal in the ancient world #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3175