 Daly’s intent was to create a trans-cultural, i.e., metapatriarchal, myth, but her thinking was deeply indebted to one particular strain in the Western intellectual tradition. Using the words of the Marxist Ernst Bloch, one could call this strain “revolutionary Prometheanism”  (Block 1956–1959 [1986] passim). It goes back at least as far as the Stoic logos spermatikos, the “seed” that links every person with the divine reason. It is closely connected with the medieval mystic’s talk of a “scintilla animae”, the “spark of the soul”, frequently echoed in Daly’s books (e.g., 1978: 183: “the divine spark of be-ing in women”). Meister Eckhart could write: 