Cinderella: Becoming free from Big Government.

 

We have all heard the story of Cinderella but who knew it had a deeper moral than what we originally suspected?

From the book, The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths & Secrets by Barbara G. Walkers, we get a completely different take.

Quoted:

The fairy tale of the cinder-maid originated as an anti-ecclesiastical allegory repeated by real ‘fairies’—that is, Pagans. Ella was Hel, or Helle, daughter of the Mother Earth, the Goddess with her regenerated fires reduced to cinders. Her ugly stepmother was the new church. Her ugly step sisters were the church’s darlings, the military aristocracy and the clergy.

An early German version of the story said Cinderella’s real mother the Earth, though dead, sent from her grave a fairy tree in answer to her daughter’s prayer. The tree produced golden apples, fine clothes and other gifts. Thus the “fairy godmother” of later versions seems to have been the ghost of the mother, the dispossessed Goddess in retirement underground. (1)

Beautiful with her new riches, Cinderella won the “prince” (mankind), ever easily impressed by the display of finery. Their union was symbolized by fitting her foot into a show, a common sexual allegory. The Eleusinian mysteries signified sacred marriage by working a phallic object in a woman’s shoe. (2) The glass slipper perhaps stood for the Crystal Cave by which pagan heroes entered the uterine underworld.

Like other secret medieval prophecies of the overthrow of the rich, powerful theocracy, the downfall of Cinderella’s ugly stepmother and stepsisters may have been intended as a prophecy. (3)

1) Jung & von Franz, 127.

2) Graves, G.M. 1, 94.

3) Tuchman, 41.

 

Now that to me is VERY interesting.

C.H. Scarlett

 

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