No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have responsibilities and the choice whether or not we live up to those responsibilities.
There is a small wooden viewing tower, and pamphlets from the State of Ohio, but they focus on facts__or instance, the Serpent Mound is as long as four football fields__ot on meaning. In The Sacred Hoop, Paula Gunn Allen, a Native poet, mythologist, and scholar, explains that Serpent Woman was one of the names of the quintessential original spirit __hat pervades everything, that is capable of powerful song and radiant movement, and that moves in and out of the mind_she is both Mother and Father to all people and all creatures. She is the only creator of thought, and thought precedes creation._ In Western mythology, she might be compared to Medusa, the serpent-haired Greek goddess whose name means Knowing Woman or Protectress. She once was all-powerful__ntil patriarchy came along in the form of a mythic young man who chopped off her head. He was told to do this by Athena, who sprang full-blown from the mind of her father, Zeus__ goddess thought up by patriarchy and therefore motherless. There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.
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There is a small wooden viewing tower, and pamphlets from the State of Ohio, but they focus on facts__or instance, the Serpent Mound is as long as four football fields__ot on meaning. In The Sacred Hoop, Paula Gunn Allen, a Native poet, mythologist, and scholar, explains that Serpent Woman was one of the names of the quintessential original spirit __hat pervades everything, that is capable of powerful song and radiant movement, and that moves in and out of the mind_she is both Mother and Father to all people and all creatures. She is the only creator of thought, and thought precedes creation._ In Western mythology, she might be compared to Medusa, the serpent-haired Greek goddess whose name means Knowing Woman or Protectress. She once was all-powerful__ntil patriarchy came along in the form of a mythic young man who chopped off her head. He was told to do this by Athena, who sprang full-blown from the mind of her father, Zeus__ goddess thought up by patriarchy and therefore motherless. There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.
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