The Da Vinci Connection -- Open Space and the Feminine

[Harrison Owen]

I think it is fair to say that the female/male (feminine/masculine) dance
has been something of a marathon. Occasionally it really flows, as any good
dance/dancers might hope for. For myself, I remember those occasions as
extraordinary moments. But then I love to dance. At other times there are a
lot of feet that get stepped. And sometimes, one partner or the other simply
gets swept off the floor and/or chooses to retire -- which makes the dance
something of an oddity, not to say virtually impossible. 

So if Open Space is a dance, where does that take us?

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Pat Black
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:05 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: The Da Vinci Connection -- Open Space and the Feminine

As some of my favorite books are being offered for reading I would like 
to add another.  Layne Remonds's When The Woman Were Drummers has some 
interesting insights about the change in balance.  According to Redmond 
there was also a corresponding change in the relationship to the drum's 
purpose and who played it.  There are many vase pictures of woman  
holding round disk objects.  Before woman had access to the acadamy most 
male archeologists discribed those disks as cakes.  Gimbutus says they 
are drums.  Redmond is a frame drummer herself and I think, quite a 
scholar on the history of the frame drum.  I seem to remember some 
issues between Moses and his sister Miriam before leaving Eygpt.  I am 
no Old Testament scholar but seem to remember that Miriam was a drummer 
and there were some power struggles between her and Moses.  I think it 
was the people that insisted Miriam be included.  That would at least 
date this struggle in the balance between the masculine and feminine to 
that time.
Pat Black

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