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
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the… — 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
