Burning Times

[Voyageur]

This link is kind-of related to the link Laura started about Halloween yesterday asking for responses of which mine was the word Mythology as being brought to mind, but it also seems that the Remembering of Ancestors might have been the original intent of the custom.
Regardless and curiously, followed a link today to the National Film Board with an animation pieces and came across an older Film Board documentary called ‘Burning Times’ that I had seen many years ago

Think you might find many curious things here related to witches, goddess practices, Christian zealot beliefs, paganism and the mass genocide of woman the world over in this 300 year period (9 million est.), this was also a capitalist business with the police/religious state, confiscation of land and assists to pay and as one woman stated, “it created amazing secondary business opportunities for lawyers, judges and people who would sit on tribunals”, this is no less true today it seems in many ways, with mass psychological warfare against woman and men with gilt/sin, same tools, and so much more. Further, too, in our times now, it seems the chemical poising of the body and mind does the Burning Times job, while industry capitalizes along with those secondary industries just as before.
Could also not notice references to Joan of Ark , voices, depicted in light with J.Keels thinking and how at some hyper-dimensional level, games were being played, perhaps across the board back then.

http://www.nfb.ca/film/burning_times/

Here is their synopsis by CNFB

This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times. Part two of a series of three films on women and spirituality, which includes Goddess Remembered and Full Circle.

 

[Bluestar]

Thanks Parallax for the link to this documentary.

There have been many books that I have read on this subject that includes the American witch burnings in Salem Massachusetts in the 1600's.
Maddening and saddening at the same time. The atrocities that were laid upon people during these 300 years were horrific. The thing that struck me in the film was that six generations of children witness the torture and murder of their mothers. Never considered it in that light. It was the "holocaust of Women"!

Further, too, in our times now, it seems the chemical poising of the body and mind does the Burning Times job, while industry capitalizes along with those secondary industries just as before.

And to think that this was credited to the birth of capitolism. Just points out how the dawning of capitolism was built on the blood and lives of the people. What could we possible expect the resultant to be other then what it is today, utilizing the blood and lives of the people.


The art work of the time truly hit a cord for me as well. No words can express it.

 

[EmeraldHope]

Thank you Bud. I really enjoyed this. I watched the other film also- Goddess Remembered. The link is here : http://www.nfb.ca/film/goddess_remembered/

This documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. The film features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish and Jean Bolen, all of whom link the loss of goddess-centric societies with today's environmental crisis. This is the first part of a 3-part series that includes The Burning Times and Full Circle.

 

[Keit]

Thank you, Parallax, for the sharing the documentary. It was very interesting and emotional at the same time.

It mentions one fact that during or after the times of the plague, there was an increase in women population. They bring up reasons like wars (many men were killed) and also a possibility of immunity. Considering what we know from Laura's comet series about the causes of the plague, I wonder about the reasons for this possible immunity specifically among women. On the other hand, when I did a search on this fact, there was nothing in particular that jumped out. One site even mentioned that there were more women deaths in London in 1665. So not sure if it is indeed factual at all.