A Quest for Community
Thursday, October 09, 2003
I spent the next couple of
months studying the materials that Anna recommended to me, and slowly
began to appreciate the incredible new knowledge that's been surfacing
in the past 20 years or so about the influence of the Goddess in human
history. To summarize, recent anthropological discoveries have revealed
that humans have been worshipping the Goddess for most of our cultural
history, which is now believed to be nearly 100,000 years old. For
nearly 90,000 years many, perhaps most, of our tribal religions seemed
to revolve around her. There is evidence that those cultures seem to
have been mostly partnership societies with a surprising degree of
equality between men and women, little violence, and harmonious relationships with their natural environments.
