Power has a tedency to go to your head, and that's true for both men and women. And religious power is as good as any other power, or maybe even better than any other power. Vivianne was a powerful woman, and in that respect, you might call her a "feminist role model". But can you call her a good person? Well, I can't. I especially disliked how she tricked Morgaine and Arthur into conceiving Mordred, even though they were half-siblings.
And returning to the subject of "the goddess", I think I have to add some points, since I'm on a roll about this right now. The reason why the Virgin Mary almost became a Christian goddess is most likely, or even certainly, because a lot of people, especially women, missed how they used to be able to vorship goddesses, female deities, before Christianity became the only legal religion. So ca 1600 years ago, the church simply worked it into their teachings. And even to this day, the Catholic church and the ortodox churches, which are the true descendants of the medieval church, vorship both male and female saints, but a female one, Virgin Mary, is the greatest saint of them all. But when the reformation came in the 1500s, men like Martin Luther and Jean Calvin finally had the guts to teach something, that actually is true, that vorshipping saints isn't encouraged by the Bible, but that it was something, that had come up later on. So the protestant churches have no saints. But what the reformators missed is that the saints were important to many people, and the Virgin Mary was the most important one, especially for the women. So it's funny that Dan Brown in "The Da Vinci code" accuses the Catholic church for having no female deity, when they actually have one, while he doesn't even mention the protestant churches, even though they truely don't have a female deity! (However, he briefly mentions ortodox judaism and islam as oppressive to women.)
Yes, it's true! IMDB has reached Sweden!
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