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Just saw somebody on Tumblr pushing the Black Cube conspiracy theory BS, including the "Satan was named after Saturn" canard. So here's a reminder that you should check asserted etymologies on a site like Wiktionary or Online Etymology Dictionary.
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there's this article from vice about how Friday the 13th was originally a pagan holiday about "The Goddess" (without naming which goddess) that Christians turned into an 'evil day'.
vice.com/en/article/how-the-patriarchy-stole-friday-the-13th-from-women-and-made-it-evil-2/
That's the link to it, but I'm now in an argument with someone over this, and I kinda want to put it to rest about the historicity. I don't really CARE if they want to worship a Goddess that is the divine neopagan amalgamation of all previous goddesses. That's fine. I'm a Universal Unitarian, far be it from me to argue people can't find common trends across past religions and find meaning and spirituality and faith in the synthesis that rises from that!
But I deeply dislike people trying to claim some long running historical conspiracy on matters like this with such flimsy evidence, (there are plenty of actual real historically horrible things that both christianity and various patriarchal cultures did to specific goddess faiths) but that said, even if I can't find anything to back it up, better to bring this to someone that's far better educated on the matter than I am, thus, this ask.
Is there anything to the claims of this article? Or is it just another click bait thing?
This is a bunch of pseudohistory rooted in the witch cult hypothesis, which proposed that the witch hunts were actually persecuting a cryptopagan cult that had survived into the early modern period.
Witches' sabbaths were said to be held on Friday, so this got turned into "the cryptopagans must have been worshiping the horned god on Fridays" which got turned into "the cryptopagans must have been worshiping the Goddess on Fridays." (The fact that Friday is actually named after the goddess Frigg has made this conspiracy theory feel even more credible to a lot of people.)
There's nothing I know of in any pre-Christian European myths or lore that give the number thirteen any particular significance. This idea that 13 is associated with a goddess comes from people assuming that whatever Christians think is bad must have been good to the pagans.
The person interviewed in the article says "before patriarchal times" but like, European cultures were patriarchal long before Christianity got there.
The stuff about people believing women could deliver psychic and intuitive messages once they got their periods is pushed by the ~divine feminine~ crowd (also, yikes with the implication that people getting their first periods are old enough to be considered women???), but I don't know of anything that supports this being some big thing in pre-Christian Europe. And even if it was true, it wouldn't imply a matriarchy any more than the existence of the Delphic Oracles implies that ancient Greece was matriarchal, or the high number of female channelers in the spiritualist movement implies matriarchy in the 19th century.
