ORIGINS OF THE FEMINIST: The Divine Womb

The Goddess floated on a Sea of Darkness; the Eyes of our Great Mother, closed, imagining. Behind the meditative lids was a fiery whirlwind- arcane chaos, beautiful mystery! The limitless Mind imagined all potential existence. Behind the Eye of God was a symphony of raging energy- a sound like infinite, vibrating violin strings in a stormy ocean. Mother Universe cradles her womb, a pure, pulsing circle- circle- immortal, unending, no beginning, no end, secure, complete, inextricable. The omniscient, elliptical Eyes open gently releasing Illumination- a mere idea in our Great Mother’s Mind became our existence.

The Light caresses the invisible, strings spawning a tuned symphony, setting the curved womb of the Universe reverberating from within. From the Navel burgeons the Cosmic Tree. The branches delicately unfurl, caressing the bejeweled galaxies, setting them seductively swirling in the hallowed, illuminated Sea of God’s Imagination. The Tree’s veins circulate the symphonic, Illuminated Sea and from the branches drip delicate droplets, trembling with swirling universes within. (Breanne L. Buccos, 2011)

The Paleolithic Era

Thousands of years ago it was the Goddess that was worshiped  It was female energy that sustained the Earth and its inhabitants. Like the moon goes through cycles, so does Woman, which seems to connect her to the energy of the Earth and tides. All over the world, archaeologists have unearthed female figurines and carvings, such as these:


prehistoric petroglyph found in a Utah cave

Willendorf, Austria 30,000-25,000 B.C. Paleolithic

Aztec goddess



Prehistoric Nile Goddess

Isis giving birth

Indus Valley 3rd-2nd Millenium B.C

Dreamer of Malta 3000 BCE

Laussel, France 22,000-18,000 B.C.E.

Sheel na gig Celtic fertility goddess of death and rebirth 11th Century

Paleolithic carving seeming to represent the vuvla

Modern scholars believe these statues and images to be related to fertility rites sacred to men and women. Thousands of years ago, from the Paleolithic to the mysterious eras of Crete and Atlantis, women were revered for their life-giving powers-their vagina being "the portal through which a child enters the world" (E.O. James, religious historian, The Chalice and the Blade). It was believed that once a person dies they can return to life by being reborn through the vagina. Blood was a symbol of life, therefore the female's menstrual cycle was mysterious and sacred. Archaeologists have discovered ancient Cro-Magnon burial sites in France, where, around the skeletal remains, are cowrie shells covered in red ocher, a symbol of the vagina and menstrual blood, so the deceased could be revitalized by the woman's life giving blood.

Acts of sex and giving birth were sacred and revered until the men of the Catholic Church began writing history, saying that Eve was the one to blame and therefore her, and all women bore after her, are the carriers of the "original sin," and that she was the one to blame for the downfall of mankind, (1 Timothy 2: 14). Why was the Gospel of Mary buried? During the Council of Nicea it was decided which Biblical texts would be written as God's word and which would be banned. Why does the Catholic Church now deny that there was a female pope, Pope Joan? The Scotus' chronicle of the popes mention her,  " A.D. 854, Lotharii 14, Joanna, a woman, succeeded Leo, and reigned two years, five months and four days"  (The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Barbara G. Walker, p. 475).

cowrie shells, once used as currency and in burial rituals

Our ancient ancestors seemed to understand the sustaining connection of human life to Nature

around them. Many goddess symbols are of females surrounded by animals, water, and trees. Our ancient ancestors seemed to be conscious of the connection of all life, and from whose sex was divine,

As Riane Eisler writes in her book, many Paleolithic remains seem to suggest a female centered society- the many female figurines found on every continent, the red ocher found in burial sites and the vagina shaped cowrie shells. These early civilization gave birth, (no pun intended) to more complex , goddess religions, that are represented by powerful female deities such as Isis, Nut, Maat, Ishtar , the Shekina, Mother Mary and of course Mother Earth and Mother Nature.

It was not until Judeo-Christian religions that woman became the "weaker sex" the carrier of "the original sin"... the sex who was condemned by God and not God-like herself.  As St. Paul said Eve was the only guilty one, (1 Timothy 2:14). Early Christians destroyed Goddess centered temples and scriptures and deemed the early rituals as works of the devil. The Christian Church declared through Acts 19:27, that the Great Goddess " must be despised and her magnificence destroyed." Christians will defend this saying that it was because Jesus had come and made all other beliefs obsolete. But, could it also have just been a power thing? To gain more land and world influence over the Muslims and Jews of Asia? To keep women from owning land, earning their own money, and making their own decisions about who to procreate with and about giving birth or not and once giving birth, deciding how to raise the child?