Throughout history, the mere image of a female with power has been enough to drive mortal men mad
and the search engine will probably produce a grid of grey-haired, bearded men basking in golden light above some fluffy clouds. As he appears in the Judaeo-Christian popular imagination, God is an old white male. But, as Belinda Crerar, a co-curator of “Feminine Power”, a new exhibition at the British Museum, points out, some theologians view God as “genderless”. Not man, not woman: the physical embodiment of God, as the Bible describes him, is a metaphor.
The show highlights the spiritual connections between male and female figures. Athena was born from the head of her father, Zeus. The warrior goddess of ancient Mesopotamia, Inanna, had the power to turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man. A small figurine on display shows the Hindu deities Lakshmi and Vishnu melded together as one being: an expression of the intrinsic unity and necessity of feminine and masculine powers in Hindu cosmology.
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