For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains a lingering, almost innate memory of sacred shrines and temples tended by priestesses who served in the religion of the original supreme deity. In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider t… - Merlin Stone
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider t…
- Merlin Stone
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. - Merlin Stone
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps t… - Merlin Stone
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps t…
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remembe… - Merlin Stone
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remembe…
It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years… - Merlin Stone
It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years…
The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept. - Merlin Stone
The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.
In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lan… - Merlin Stone
In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lan…
Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to… - Merlin Stone
Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to…
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