Many Names, Many Lives:

Women in Christian History, Literature and Film

National Research Council of the Philippines

Introduction

Objectives

Methodology

Online Review of Literature

Many Names, Many Lives Online

Links

Creative Works

Poetry

Like a razor

Bring me to Kashmir

Fiction

The Journal of Love

Putik sa Tag-ulan

Paglalakbay

Recommendations

Online Bibliography

It is all about the many faces, various nature of woman as culled from ancient to modern Christian history (Eve, Mary, Monica, Gracia Burnham), and modern literature and film (writers as Katherine Mansfield, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath; film characters as Alicia Nash and Constance Sumners).

The creative works component is meant to parallel the research finding-- that woman is a complex being, playing such important role in the development of the human race.

This work aims to illustrate the complex and many profiles of woman as a human being and significant catalyst of human destiny.

This online research also aims to demonstrate the power of ICT (information and communication technology) and how it can be harnessed in literature by researchers, creative writers, and book publishers. Among the advantages of web-based research and publishing this work demonstrates are:

1. Cost effectiveness (Not expensive)
2. Hyperactivity (Feedbacks can be made anytime)
3. World wide access in real time - anytime (Research is available to the world at all times)
4. Author knows how many have accessed his / her work with the installation of site counter and statistics engine (Author knows if he or she is being read by target audience)
5. Immediacy (takes only weeks as compared to traditional research and publishing that take years)
6. Meta tags make the work easily searched and marked by Web (Internet) spiders, thus making the work more available to target beneficiaries

The methodology used in this research:

1. Create an online main text whose vital components are hyperlinked to the sources.
2. Create index to the hyperlinks.

Here is a quote from the least explored side of woman:

The Bitch from hell

I'm the bitch from hell.

I think you know me well.

I am the dark goddess

kali, hecate, lilith, morrigan, ereshkigal.

These faces of the feminine are much less easily acceptable than those of

Aphrodite the Goddess of Love or Demeter the Great Mother. But it is in the

energy of the dark goddesses that a vast store of feminine power lies.

kali is the creator and the destroyer. She is depicted as one who cuts off the

heads of men. Scary stuff! But this is a symbolic representation, it is not

actually their Life she is after, simply their Ego.

The dark goddess lives in us all. Often suppressed and denied she will

eventually leak out in hostility and sarcasm, with sly cutting digs, nagging,

gossip and put downs. She reveals herself at her most ugly in our closest

relationships. Liz Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" plays her out

admirably. Jung calls her the 'animus suppressed'. She is everything that nice girls are not. Suppressed too far she turns her destructive energy inwards and creates depression and disease.

The energy of the dark goddess brews and bubbles in the belly. Suppressing her simply adds bite to her words when they do manage to escape. If the energy of fermentation in a bottle of rich wine starts to become more than the cork can contain the wine will ooze out. If we ignore this and shove the cork back down harder the build up will become greater and next time the leaks will become spurts. Finally the pressure will shoot the cork off completely and the precious liquid will be lost. This is the path of denial, of refusing to acknowledge the truth that needs to be spoken. The alternative is to appreciate that bottle, to nurture the rich gift that is brewing, turn it and tend to it and to choose when the cork should be removed and the sweet dark flavour be offered to the world.

Accepted and celebrated the dark goddesses give us the strength to overcome the fear of rejection and to dare to stand in our truth and tell it how we see it. This is an enormously empowering experience.

Yoni

1. Make this digital research a prototype for other literary researchers and writers to explore and apply ICT to both researches and creative works.
2. Encourage more researches into the trends of electronic publishing in Philippine literature.

Eve

Mary

Kathernine Mansfield

Anais Nin

Sylvia Plath

John Nash

Gracia Burnham

Monica

Immortality