| In my childhood, when England was an introverted ‘Christian’country, I was told about St Paul’s combative encounters with a certain Diana of the Ephesians, a distant notion then! I was 40 when I first visited Efes and the statue of Great Artemis struck me with its powerful presence. Clearly, Artemis represented something entirely antithetical to some practical manifestations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
This antithesis is largely concerned with the nature of a (mother-power) matriarchal society, as against a set of values which is intended to enhance the role of the male. |
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