OUR-Story vs HIS-story

She no longer was allowed to engage in business, or marry, or divorce, or procreate, without the consent and blessing of a male family member. Father to Husband for ownership rights. The laws which left women victims of rape, at the mercy of their husbands and his brothers to further defile her in punishment before stoning her for her shame on the family, was law. A woman scorned with or without her consent was shameful to herself, her family, and God.    

This is still the narrative to this day in the religions which created sexism. But it is worth noting that before the Aryan invasion globally, predating Jesus Christ, women held positions of power, in politics, business and in the home - equal to men. Women were high priestesses without sexual duties depicted to the archetype of Cleopatra - after women's fall from grace through new "Abrahamic," laws & religions, globally, the role of women in the world dwindled from human citizen, to empowered slave - we are still "earning" our freedom.   

These narratives were deliberately created against women, children. 

Mary of Magdalen was not a whore - she is a saint, known now as Apostle of all of the Apostles of Jesus.

Mary could not have been a whore, she was a woman born into a belief system in which her body was not even hers to sell.  No Jewish woman had the sexual right/freedom to be a prostitute. She would have been stoned by her male family members. The portrayal of Mary Magdalen as a prostitute began in 591 when Pope Gregory I conflated Mary Magdalene, who was introduced in Luke 8:2, with Mary of Bethany (Luke 10:39) and the unnamed "sinful woman" who anointed Jesus's feet in Luke 7:36–50. Pope Gregory's Easter sermon resulted in a widespread belief that Mary Magdalen was a repentant prostitute or promiscuous woman, [which remained] a major controversy in the years leading up to the Reformation. During the Counter-Reformation, the Catholic Church emphasized Mary Magdalen as a symbol of penance and in 1969, Pope Paul VI removed the identification of Mary Magdalen with Mary of Bethany and the "sinful woman" from the General Roman Calendar, but the view of her as a former prostitute has persisted in popular culture. (1)

In all the four canonical gospels, Mary Magdalene was a witness to the crucifixion of Jesus and, in the Synoptic Gospels, she was also present at his burial.  In Jewish society, women were regarded as unreliable witnesses and were forbidden from giving testimony in court, so early Christians would have had no motive to make up a story about a woman being the first to discover the empty tomb. In fact, if they had made the story up, they would have had strong motivation to make Peter, Jesus's closest disciple while he was alive, the discoverer of the tomb instead.  (1)  

The Gospel of Luke 8:2–3 lists Mary Magdalene as one of the women who traveled with Jesus and helped support his ministry 'out of their resources.'  The fact that women played such an active and important role in Jesus's ministry was not entirely radical or even unique; inscriptions from a synagogue in Aphrodisias in Asia Minor from around the same time period reveal that many of the major donors to the synagogue were women. Jesus's ministry did bring women greater liberation than they would have typically held in mainstream Jewish society. Jesus taught that, in the imminent kingdom of God, there would be a reversal of roles and those who had been oppressed would be exalted. (1)

The same passage also states that seven demons had been driven out of her, a statement which is repeated in Mark 16. The number 7 has also been associated with the 7 deadly sins. Working to relieve oneself of the 7 deadly sins is associated with the purpose of existence - spiritual cleansing.

Cleopatra was not a whore or a seductress...  If her father had sold her to Cesar to save her kingdom, it would have been her "birthright," her "royal and familial responsibility," to exchange her very personhood for the security of her family, Monarchy, and country.  

Cleopatra trained with her father in politics and monarchy for four years before his death. When he passed she fought for her throne.  But as a free woman, monarch and priestess, as a young woman, she took herself intro the bed chamber of Cesar, and saved her Monarchy, country and secured her bloodline - she then did the same with one of the most masterful war strategists of the time - Mark Anthony.   

"Depending on the historical source, Cleopatra spoke anywhere between five to nine languages, which included her native Greek, classic Egyptian and multiple other native languages within Egypt." (3)  

Although Cleopatra had no Egyptian blood, she alone in her ruling house learned Egyptian. To further her influence over the Egyptian people, she was also proclaimed the daughter of Re, the Egyptian sun god. Cleopatra soon fell into dispute with her brother, and civil war erupted in 48 B.C.  (4) 

"Cleopatra VII ruled ancient Egypt as co-regent (first with her father, then with her two younger brothers and finally with her son) for almost three decades. She was part of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Well-educated and clever, Cleopatra could speak various languages and served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies. Her romantic liaisons and military alliances with the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, as well as her supposed exotic beauty and powers of seduction, earned her an enduring place in history and popular myth." (5)  

Such fictionalized accounts of her life, and her untimely demise, created the popular image of Cleopatra as the beautiful, doomed protagonist in one of history’s most famous romantic dramas. Behind that image, however, was a real-life queen, who, regardless of her looks, was certainly a formidable leader—and one of the most powerful members of a Greek dynasty that dominated Egypt for more than three centuries. (6)  

What a shame to lose your legacy of Goddess, Priestess, Ruler, and final Monarch for a 300 year old dynasty, to fictional accounts of being nothing more than a seductress. Only capable of such incredible successes as a leader, if misusing her feminine power to manipulate and control others.   How can we be seductresses when the power was take from us to be sexually human some 4,000 years ago?

Until approximately 1500-1300 BC, women held positions in politics, business, and religion. Inheritance to land and/or power followed female and male bloodlines, without the necessity of a male to secure the inheritance.  

Religious and political narratives brought into India and Canaan from the northern "Ind- European/Aryan Race", stripping a woman's right to do business without the consent of a husband or father, gave men the right to rape and kill a woman for having sex outside of marriage, or before marriage, the right for a man to rape another man's wife for retribution for the man first raping his wife, or forcing a rape victim to marry her perpetrator - these laws came with narratives of woman as "dangerous seductresses," requiring strict and total surrender to the man, and under his dictatorship we are told all of humanity will be "less like the animals."

Furthermore, "science" affirmed this religious-political view of women as dangerous, and added, "crazy," with the advent of modern day psychology/mental health, which was founded as a method by which to control and reform women. The entire field of psychology was created around the stigma that a woman unwilling to fill to the role given to her "by God," is "ill." Before, the narrative was that she was possessed by "demons." 

This allowed for psychological and spiritual abuse on a more systematic level, with hospitalization, medication, shock treatment and more.

"Before its classification as a mental disorder, hysteria was considered a physical ailment, first described medically in 1880 by Jean-Martin Charcot."  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.  

Medicine, Religion and Politics make women possessions, requiring governance, discipline and control, lest she use her powers of persuasion to change the minds of the men around her for political religious or other gains. 

To this day it is the women who tell the stories that keep their daughters enslaved for one more generation.  But when God has carried your family for eons - how are we to adopt new ways of thinking and living as women globally, without sacrificing our heritage, religion, and beliefs.  

How do we claim our love for God, while letting go of the false narratives created "in HIS name" to hurt us, for the last 6,000 years.

 "On their arrival in India [Aryans] found, not a primitive aboriginal population, but a highly developed urban civilization superior to their own relatively simple way of life as depicted in the Rg Veda...the Aryans came into contact with highly civilized and already ancient, forms of settled societies, in comparison with [false narratives of them as] mere barbarians."  - Profession E.O. James (1963)

Humanity did not need "saving," and we still do not. There was not pervasive disorder, disharmony, and sexual perversion that required "order." That was a lie. The religious agenda of the Aryans created dis-order and dis-harmony between men and women - it divided the human race into slaves and masters. Across gender, race and income level.