A History of the Goddess
From the Ice Age to the Bible
by Edward Dodge
This book explores the Goddess worshipping traditions that were always a part of human spirituality but were eliminated in the Bible on the path to monotheism. There is an unexplored narrative in the Bible, the early Israelites were pagan and God had a wife, her name is Asherah and she appears many times in the Bible. The Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father were the original gods far back in history and they got a divorce in the Old Testament so that God could rule alone. But the Earthly Mother never went away and we can follow her traditions through Christianity and into the modern world.
The religious wars of the past that eliminated these women-led Goddess religions are directly reflected in today’s culture wars where the secular left is struggling to break free of the moral dictates of religious conservatives. In the Goddess temples of antiquity, we see unbridled feminism, egalitarianism, nature worship, sexual freedom for women and gays, cannabis and sacred plants, transgendered people as high priests, even abortions. The world today is in flux and many people are rediscovering the Feminine Divine, she is an important part of our collective experience.
5 out of 5
I found this book to be absolutely fascinating. Whether you’re interested in history, theology, or just curious about what came before the major monotheistic religions of today, you’ll be intrigued by this book. It was easy to read (despite being quite a long book), and it didn’t read as dryly as I feared it would. This was engaging, well researched, and easy to understand. I got so immersed in it, before I knew what was happening, I was a few chapters in. Highly recommend this book to all curious readers, even if you don’t have previous experience with religious studies.
Edward Dodge is a clean energy developer and writer from Washington D.C. with degrees from Cornell University. He studied the history of cannabis which provided the origins of this book.
You can visit his website at www.historyofthegoddess.com and his blog at https://edwarddodge.substack.com.
You can visit his YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCewtIeQPSqOxs25IP0Np6g
Connect with Edward at Twitter and Facebook.
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