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This article sets out to show the heuristic value of the hypothesis according to which the Neolithic revolution, albeit a female innovation, then became a male activity with the invention of the plow. This hypothesis allows for distinguishing two types of agriculture, depending on the active or passive nature attributed to the land. It offers a perspective for interpreting Dionysus and affords a comparison of relations between the “circle of life” and the “democratic circle” in the ancient Iroquois Confederacy and Greece. Finally, it allows for placing the ethics of care in historical perspective and contrasting it with the logic of power that drives agro-industrial societies.