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.
"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.