Editing Matriarchy (section)

=== Basque myth and society ===
The hypothesis of Basque matriarchism or theory of Basque matriarchism is a theoretical proposal launched by [[Andrés Ortiz-Osés]] that maintains that the existence of a psychosocial structure centered or focused on the matriarchal-feminine archetype (mother / woman, which finds in the archetype of the great Basque mother Mari, her precipitate as a projection of Mother Earth / nature) that "permeates, coagulates and unites the traditional Basque social group in a way that is different from the patriarchal Indo-European peoples".

This mythical matriarchal conception corresponds to the conception of the Basques, clearly reflected in their mythology. The Earth is the mother of the Sun and the Moon, compared to Indo-European patriarchal conceptions, where the sun is reflected as a God, numen or male spirit. Prayers and greetings were dedicated to these two sisters at dawn and dusk, when they returned to the bosom of Mother Earth.

Franz-Karl Mayr, this [[philosopher]] argued that the archetypal background of Basque mythology had to be inscribed in the context of a [[Paleolithic]] dominated by the Great Mother, in which the cycle of [[Mari (goddess)]] and her metamorphoses offers all a typical symbolism of the matriarchal-naturalistic context. According to the archetype of the Great Mother, this is usually related to fertility cults, as in the case of Mari, who is the determinant of fertility-fecundity, the maker of rain or hail, that on whose telluric forces depend the crops, in space and time, life and death, luck (grace) and misfortune.<ref>{{cite book |last1=José Miguel de Barandiarán |title=Euskal Herriko Mitoak |publisher=Gipuzkoako Kutxa |page=63 }}</ref>