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? — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
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… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly accepted social… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept. — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
