The Myth of the Goddess

"An indispensable source work for anyone interested in this very important development of religious ideas. "Marija Gimbutas. Ranges from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia Hypothesis. A comprehensive study that draws upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. It explains what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.