There is an important difference in a psychological sense between how we relate to motherhood culturally and how we do it personally. Culturally it relates us to the psychic world of our ancestors and to our belonging to it. To our sense of a community and a psychosocial connection of responsibility towards each other. To earth, and our relation to the world as a psychic phenomenon. On the personal level, it is about infantile psychological dependencies. About literal psychic thinking and an inability to be accepting of others in how they describe their relationship between them and themselves. Often in an obsessive way that relates to personally colored ideas of a belonging that do not let the arguments of other’s count. She might also turn into Jáhbmeáhkká, and our psyche as the death mother of the underworld. If we become strong enough, we do not disappear into her world, but can return and move back and forth to dwell with those who left us without getting stuck not knowing how to get back. In Sami, peoples sense of community and cultural identity is viewed in a descendant sense, which refers us to Máttaráhkká and our responsibility in relation to the world as psyche, to Rádienáhkká. I also see them in a perspective of inner development where Sáráhkká, Uksáhkká and Juoksáhkká have significant roles, especially Juoksáhkká and her compelling way of making us stand up for ourselves. For what is genuine and true.
If we identify with our cultural background in a literal way, to motherhood without Máttaráhkká, we also lose touch with the voice that mediates our interaction with the balancing of the opposites of life that lies behind it in Rádienáhttje, and the organization that a psychic fatherhood as Máderáhttje constitutes in the form of the social order we relate to him. A personal relationship to him as opposed to a cultural one will make us remain in an undeveloped boyish or girlish stage. We identify ourselves with him, and imagine that our thoughts are always a product of our own making and must somehow also be what others think at the same time. So instead of us developing a relation to his role as mediator where we may act as an interpreter of the content which formulates the meaning this relation has to us on a cultural level, we just become all that is transferred to us. There is no connection between us and ourselves which is performed by our inner person, in Sami he is referred to as Radiengieddte. We simply are the cultural environments we have been inoculated with. There is no psychic separation between the inner person in his development, and his cultural surroundings, or with the psychic self-regulating whole in which he finds himself. Everything is the same. We end up in Ruohtta, or become him, where we plague and infect others with our literal one-sidedness far removed from the relationship between us and ourselves in relation to others. That’s why when this relationship is undeveloped we tend to live in an airy surface world where what we think and what our inner person relates to is the same. Without regarding to the integrity of others as we intervene in their interior life like dangerous and stupid giants with iron clothes which eat children.