The First Tarakabrahma: Gifts of Agriculture and the City-States

Q. You mentioned one female Taraka Brahma. What was her contribution?

It was very early, long before Shiva, during ancient times in the culture of the Mediterranean area in the south of Europe when glaciers covered the north. The people had been nomadic in the snowy culture and were surviving in caves. Their clans were growing very large to hundreds and hundreds of people. The population was successfully growing. With warming, the planet was becoming more conducive and so populations were growing. From the larger clans, people needed a change from their nomadic society to the city-state agrarian social order. At that time, she came.

She was a great spiritual woman. From her mothers she learned the early tantra as it was taught in those days of her clan. She learned to commune with the stars and to feel the universe. Even when she was just a small girl, her mind went quickly to transcendence. Then, being an extraordinary figure, she quickly became recognized. It was a very large clan by then, maybe four or five hundred people. The clans needed to settle. She took the position to be like a shaman, the visionary, the vision-giver of the society. Such a person forewarned of storms, told where game would be, warned of dangers to the clan, and told when and in what direction the clan should move. She would go into states of trance and give her visions. This increased and then her great spiritual vision became apparent to all. Many people wanted to learn Brahma sadhana from her. She became mother of the clan, teaching Brahma sadhana to all as well as guiding the welfare of the clan.

All the other clans were getting jealous because this clan was prospering. This clan always knew where the game would be. They always knew everything, for her presence was very great. Then she took the clan and gave agriculture. She showed how to plant the seeds, then how to make buildings and how to establish permanent residence. In this way, she settled the clans. She settled her clan and she promoted settlement of all clans. The city-states came about under her influence. Soon she was worshiped as an ancestor and later as a goddess.

Q. Those statues from the Mediterranean area, are they pictures of her?

They are images of the Goddess. For many, many hundreds of years people believed that the Goddess had taken form and given them, by divine right, their city-states. They had temples in worship of the Goddess but it was truly to her that all this worship went. She was the Great Goddess incarnate. She founded the city-states and the temples, the religion, and taught the practices.

She came from the locale commonly known today as Greece on a small island off the coast, not Cyprus, a smaller island off the coast. Her clan was nomadic. Clans then went as the winters came and went. They went north and south like the birds. From her worship, the Egyptian mythologies came about as well. First were the temples of the Mediterranean. After her reign and settlement of the city-states, a sophisticated culture developed with commerce throughout the Mediterranean and even into the East, to India, the Indus valley, all around. All the city-states had a unity in commerce.

Her teachings went to the priestesses, to the sacred temples that formed in the cities. This temple religion of the priestesses had formed even when it was still a nomadic society and she was the great priestess, adored and worshipped by all. Because her vision was very wise, the tradition of oracles came about. The oracle at Delphi was a later version of this priestess culture. You see, originally the head priestess was the shaman of the tribe. She would watch over the game, the weather, and the health of the people. As this developed more sophistication, she brought Brahma sadhana as well and with this, the Goddess temples and the priestess culture. All you can see in some remnants of later temples that still exist. Many early temples are beneath the waters because the tides have risen. The city-states are beneath the waters and beneath the silt. They are difficult to find. But one day people will find the city-states. The later temples that are visible now had been built at higher elevations. Cyprus was a part of this matriarchal culture. Because it is an island, when patriarchy overran the matriarchal city-states, Cyprus was a backward and outlying area, just isolated on an island. So it escaped the destruction of the main cultures. Temples remained on the island that was isolated and not so important as to catch the notice of the powers that be.

From this bed of culture in matriarchy developed the ancient Greek culture, the goddesses and the gods. All the male philosophers arose out of it. It was the precursor by many, many thousands of years to ancient Greek culture and philosophy.

Historians will not know anything about this until the city-states are uncovered. But even they will not know because what is left is only rubble worn away at the bottom of the sea. The cycle of the world changes and changes again. It took a great personality to implement that renaissance in the Mediterranean and the development of the great city-states and cultures of that time from which later cultures in patriarchy evolved on the foundation of this buddhi, this wisdom knowledge. So again, Taraka Brahma came when society needed a real change. It is the role of Taraka Brahma to facilitate such change.