Nevertheless, these texts are found in the prepromise layers of the Jacob and Joseph materials, and they anticipate elements in the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

Bachofen, the protagonist of the mother-right theory in the last century, observed that motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night.

He kisses up more than he works.

But while Katy Perry similarly threw herself into the spirit of the event – crowdsurfing, dancing with a security guard, charming the audience – her peculiar combination of newfound political conscience and longstanding predisposition to DayGlo cartoonishness was simultaneously intriguing and baffling, as a woman delivering between-song speeches about the necessity of taking back power surrounded by dancers dressed as flowers and giant pom-poms covered in fluorescent fur was perhaps wont to be.