'5. Status and Duties of Women
55. Women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands, and brothers-in-law, who desire (their own welfare).
56. Where women are honoured, there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honoured, no sacred
rite yields rewards.
57. Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers.
58. The houses on which female relations, not being duly honoured, pronounce a curse, perish completely, as if destroyed by magic.'
Furthermore - '45. He only is a perfect man who consists (of three persons united), his wife, himself, and his offspring; thus (says the Veda), and learned brahmins propound this maxim likewise, "The husband is declared to be one with the wife'.'
(A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Moore & Radhakrishnan, Princeton University Press, 1957).
Given that this is from the Laws of Manu, which are Vedic, it can hardly be dismissed as non-Aryan in origin, yet it seems to be curiously absent.
I think the key point some people are missing is that Evola seems to be dedicated more to a critique of non-conventional females, as opposed to actual women as a
collective group. The above passage from Manu would not have applied to modern feminists though - a woman who adopted a 'male' role lost her rights as a woman in Vedic times, and was in general treated as a man.
evola_as_he_is <evola_as_he_is@...> wrote:
In the meantime, we are still waiting for one of
those 'traditionalists', 'Satanists' or 'neo-pagans' to set to music
this Stotra from the 'Brihadaranyaka Upanishad' (VI.4.7), that is one
of the main Upanishads : "If she does not grant him his desire, he
should buy her (with presents). If she still does not grant him his
desire he should beat her with a stick or his hand ...", as well as
other 'misogynist' parts of the Rig-Veda.
Three heavens there are; two Savitar's, adjacent:
In Yama's world is one, home of heroes.
As on a linch-pin, firm, rest things immortal:
He who hath known it, let him here declare it.
- Rig Veda I.35 (Griffith)
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