When God Was a Woman

This book is life-changing. If you have wondered why there are traces of an ancient, long-suppressed Goddess image shining beneath Western morality, Merlin Stone's case will appeal to you. Before our current set of competing religions, there was a multi-century period when a female deity ruled. She had various names. Her imagery, snakes, fruit (figs, turned to apples), and sexual empowerment took bloodshed and clever narratives to destroy. All of this will make sense to today's women, in the throes of similar ruthless disinformation campaigns. The book is well written and researched. It has been around, but never more relevant than now.