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Gantowisas: democracy and eternal feminine beyond the legends – a way to rethink world order

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More than a dissertation, by this short essay I’d like to bring to the limelight the myth of the eternal feminine in a quirky Iroquois adaptation, a long-lasting reality resisting the harshness and consumption of the elapsing of time. This myth, completely embodied in the story of the Gantowisas, that has contextualized it and made it a tangible and concrete reality, other than being an outstanding example upon which was based the USA Constitution, not only in its internal structure founded on the principle of popular sovereignty (“we the people”) and in the recognized fundamental freedoms (i.e., first amendment), but also for the way they manage their international relations and diplomatic affairs, has left its sign over the time in the matriarchal society which represents a triumphal model of democracy strongly acclaimed by feminists movements and the utmost bulwark of the   belief that a true open equalitarian society can just come from women and the values inherent to them. In ...