Woman
Monday, October 17, 2022
In the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu from ancient Iraq, that is more ancient than the holy texts, it is woman—her body and soul—who is the savior. But in several Abrahamic religions, women do not have an equal ‘space’ with men.
IN a remote valley in Maramures, Rumania, on a rise outside the village, stands a wooden church: a black building measuring 8 x 10 meters, which—like other old churches in the area—can be seen from a distance because of its towering spire.
One Sunday during a trip over summer in 1991, I joined the village faithful going to church. They invited me in. In that narrow space that was about 400 years old, the simple but powerful religious
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