Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readOct 17, 2024

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I still don't get it - those things are factually correct. Abrahamic religions don't have a balancing other gender consort the way most other religions do for the main deity (be it male or female). And, in Paleolithic times there is a huge amount of evidence that overwhelmingly, religion was female-centric, with mothers (as the bringers of life) being both central and sacred. The Divine Ancesstress/Queen of Heaven was quite demonstrably the primary deity throughout Mesopotamia until the Hebrew invasions that helped to bring about patriarchy.

As late as the 1st Century BC, high born women of respectable families worked and lived as sacred intimates in the temples of the Divine Ancestress. The Goddess, who was the primary deity, went by many names, depending on the culture — Inanna, Nan, Nut, Ishtar, Isis, Au Set, Asherah, Attar, and Hathor, to name just a few. In all of these cultures, she is also often referred to as The Queen of Heaven — the Goddess who brought not just sexual love and procreation, but the gift of all life, wisdom, truth, and justice.

In many of the earliest known creation stories from very different parts of the world, we find the Goddess-Mother as the source of all being. In the Americas, she is the Lady of the Serpent Skirt — of interest also because, as in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, the serpent is one of her primary manifestations. In ancient Mesopotamia this same concept of the universe is found in the idea of the world mountain as the body of the Goddess-Mother of the universe, an idea that survived into historic times.

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade . HarperOne. Kindle Edition.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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