Tori Amos: Gnosticism and the Sacred Feminine

[Sue]

Probably a little late posting this but thought I would do it anyway.

www.womanrock.com/Tori_Amos_Backstory_Feature_Final.htm

p.s....The Beekeeper is a great cd and everyone should go buy it if they haven't already.

[Tara]

From the site:

If you read the Gnostic Gospels you discover that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute, but a “prophet.” Maybe that was not “profitable” to the fathers who were creating the church, because how do you get power? Well the patriarchy’s view is you divide and conquer. The greatest way to divide and conquer is within the self, so when you divide sexuality and spirituality within a woman, she is completely and absolutely divided, therefore, The Beekeeper was very much about bringing these paradoxes together into the garden, into one being. The garden’s reflective of a woman’s body. That is the back-story.

So The Gnostic Gospels was her inspiration for The Beekeeper? Or did I misinterpret something?

[Sue]

Yes, that was one book that inspired her.