Friday, March 18, 2016

What Should Our Movement's Flag Be?

Has anyone noticed that Matriarchal symbolism seems to turn up in some of the oddest places one could imagine?  Including, perhaps, even the flag of a Southern "red" state that was once the very seat of the Confederacy, of all places?  Take a look at the flag and seal of the state of Virginia, for example:

Virginia Flag Virginia Flag History

Not exactly the best image resolution in the official version, so let's take a look at an alternate version:





Now do you see it?  The victor is clearly a Woman, and the vanquished tyrant is clearly a man.  "Sic Semper Tyrannis" is Latin for, "Thus always to tyrants", and more colloquially translated as, "Death to all tyrants".

So why would such symbolism be present in a "red" state's flag that was first created in a much more patriarchal time in our nation's history?  Because Matriarchy is still in our DNA, that's why.  Thus Matriarchy has still persisted (albeit vestigially) in what Carl Jung calls the "collective unconscious" despite thousands of years of patriarchal terror attempting to snuff it out.  In fact, according to Wikipedia, the design of the Virginia flag was taken from Roman mythology of all places.  And despite Ancient Rome being an extremely patriarchal society, Goddess worship was still a thing, clearly taken from the preceding Matriarchal civilizations that had been supplanted.  Note that we also see similar Roman symbolism in the Statue of Liberty and the personification of Columbia as well.  And the collective unconscious is now waking up.

The modern-day Matriarchy movement needs a flag of our own, as I am not aware that any such flag exists.  And the Virginia state flag provides an excellent model for such a flag, though perhaps with a different word if you catch my drift.

5 comments:

  1. Virginia is a blue state, I live there. Virginia voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, voted for Hillary in 2016. Virginia voted for a Democratic governor in 2013. Northern Virginia, where I live, is as Democratic as Massachusetts.

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  2. Nowadays, that is true. They are a swing state that is more likely to be blue than red these days.

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  3. "Sic Semper Tyrannis"...where have I heard that before? Ah, Yes - John Wilkes Booth!

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  4. And he originally took that phrase from what the senators supposedly said when they assassinated Julius Caesar.

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