Bringing ancient herstory back to life

History is always written by the dominant cast of society. That is why history is His story. “Her” story is not what we learn at school. Even though archeologists found thousands of very old figurines representing the feminine, and many graves of female queens and warriors, the finding of these artifacts is not translated in a worldview that is taking into account the possibility of advanced societies that worshiped the Goddess, where men and women occupied equal positions and where women were influential as priestesses, oracles, politicians, medicine women and so on…

Yet, the time span before patriarchy is much bigger than the existence of patriarchy itself, going back ten thousands of years. And probably much further. “When God was a woman” is a wonderful book by Merlin Stone that tells us all about our herstory before history…

In ancient traditions where the feminine principle was revered, there was automatically a lot of respect for the lifegiving faculties of women: birth, fertility, menstruation, menopause.