How many of them had there been? They must have mentioned others because they had said that for every exceptional woman in the family, there had been a doomed man preyed on by sisters and mothers, who transformed the power they took from him for the goddess’s arts. It seemed that in her own mother, it had all come together—although she was exceptional, she had been consumed by madness.
Pure patriarchal thinking here- no GODDESS needs a fucking man's power, whatever a man's power is supposed to be.
