Ferrars & Fields Magazine

The witch craze wages a war against Lilith, who, born from Adam’s clay, refused to obey the Man. The burn­ings of her kin­dred become great pub­lic spectacles.
Lilith leaves her life to the flames,
sac­ri­ficed upon the altar of a fab­ri­cat­ed God. But her truth will be known in the smoke, and the ash­es, and in the earth.

The close cor­re­la­tion between the emer­gence of pri­vate prop­er­ty and the oppres­sion of women, as pro­posed by Engels, offers an intrigu­ing the­o­ry for under­stand­ing the devel­op­ment of an ear­ly patri­archy and the pro­gres­sion of the patri­ar­chal sys­tem with­in the his­tor­i­cal con­text of Europe. We are com­pelled to won­der whether essen­tial­ism, which ascribes inher­ent dom­i­nance instincts to men and sub­mis­sion instincts to women, pro­vides a valid expla­na­tion for the ascen­dan­cy of one gender’s pow­er over the oth­er. Origin’s silence on this mat­ter neces­si­tates a more pro­found explo­ration into the under­ly­ing rea­sons behind the estab­lish­ment of patri­ar­chal pow­er structures.