The bombā¦is theĀ apotheosis of the patriarchal Sun God.Ā Man no longer needs to worship the sunāhe can make his own, and force the entire earth to bow down before it...
His new wealth, his new power over life, his new military ability to maim, terrify, and slaughter by hundreds of thousands gave man aĀ haughty contempt for life; once he had been in awe of life, but now he found how easy it was to push life around, to kill it. Manās newĀ contempt for life extended to woman, of course, since for millennia she had stood as the numinousĀ symbol of lifeās sacredness, lifeās holy power. But nowĀ heĀ had the power, and he found he could also easily invent his own sacredness, by fiat. God became maleāa warrior maleāin his imageā¦
He liberates himself by arrogantly and recklessly destroying the interconnecting webwork of which he is partāand then the ātragic heroā is surprised when he looks around himself, and sees nothing but wasteland and deathā¦The sun hero slashes through the timeless web of interconnecting life energy and lays it all waste, in order toĀ enjoyĀ swift satisfaction, fame, and conquest.
Conquest of what? Of the fact that life is paradoxā¦he is a little boy warring againstĀ the subtle (serpentine) natureĀ of life: demanding it be made neat, simplistic, logical,Ā unambiguous, designed as a flat stage for his triumphāand nothing moreā
ā Monica Sjƶƶ & Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother






















