Comments by "Vaska Tumir" (@vaska1999) on "Dyeus: The Indo-European Sky Father" video.

  1.  @cupidok2768  Basic human psychology. Think about it for a moment or two. All over the world, mothers (and by extension women as a class) are associated with materiality, the Earth, nature, etc. Fathers, in contrast, being the more distant patent, are associated with abstract rules, distancing, separation, and abstraction in general. If you want observe infants closely, babies of 10-18 months of age, you will also notice that when conceptualising the difference between mother and father, they will often "explain" the male parent as the "outside" mother (the parent that is physically more distant, as is indeed the case since men cannot bear children or nurse them). What at a first glance appears as sexism turns out to be rooted in something deeper in our psychology as embodies creatures, as mammals. Conceptualising God as Mother is of course possible, as many religions around the world attest, and the maternal metaphor can even be found in the Hebrew Bible, although its main metaphor for God is the paternal one. One of the early Christian gospels that did not get into the canon also portrays the Creator as a woman/female, although there the metaphor of a divine mother is not present.
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