How to worship women in autumn

India has a tradition of worshiping the feminine divine which stretches through the world’s oldest unbroken civilization. But where does it come from and why is it such a natural instinct?

There is a sense that this festival is simultaneously modern (after all it has spawned everything from comic books to rap songs) and ancient. There is something primordial about a ritual that involves ‘breathing life’ into an idol of the feminine form built using mud from a holy river — as is done with idols of Durga in the state of Bengal.

Also, both in the east of India, in Bengal, and the west, in Gujarat, rituals of fasting, rejuvenation and piety, and dances of love, mating and fertility have always occurred simultaneously in this festival giving it a certain unique wholesomeness.

But why does worship occur? Where does it come from? And what is its significance?

Some of the answers go back between 30,000 to 250,000 years before our time. The image that you see above is a great find in the history of archaeology. It is a figurine that was discovered in 1908 at a paleolithic excavation ground near the village of Willendorf in Austria, and now famous as the Venus of Willendorf. There have been many such figurines, all with the same heavy breasts and wide hips, that have been discovered — for instance, the Venus of Dolni Vestonice at Moravia or the Venus of Lespugue in France.

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