So tief war der Göttinnenkult in Palästina verwurzelt, dass er alle drastischen Reformversuche von Seiten der Jahweisten bis zum Ende der Königsherrschaft überdauerte. E. O. James (1888-1972) US-amerikanischer Anthropologe, vergleichender Religionswissenschaftler, Professor emeritus für Religionsgeschichte und -philosophie, The Ancient Gods, S. 91, Booksales, June 2004

Mehr und mehr beweist die Archäologie, dass es in der Tat wirklich ein Goldenes Zeitalter gab, eine gynaikokratische Epoche, die unzählige Jahrtausende andauerte, bis über die Dämmerung der geschriebenen Geschichte herauf. [...] Der Mann war friedfertig, die Gottheit weiblich und die Frau überragend. Frieden und Gerechtigkeit herrschten unter einer allbarmherzigen Göttin, und die langen Kleider der Priesterinnen sind bis zum heutigen Tag das Gewand der männlichen Priester, die später folgten.
Der Monotheismus, von dem man einst glaubte, Moses oder Echnaton habe ihn erfunden, war in der Vor- und Frühgeschichte weit verbreitet. Es scheint, Evans hatte recht, wenn er behauptete, dass es ein Monotheismus war, in dem die "weibliche Form der Göttin vorherrschte". E. O. James (1888-1972) US-amerikanischer Anthropologe, vergleichender Religionswissenschaftler, Professor emeritus für Religionsgeschichte und -philosophie, The Ancient Gods, S. 250, Booksales, June 2004

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If you look at God as Great Father or Great Mother, than S/He would delight in your enlightenment. God experiences the joy of His own Divinity, is both the pathway and the destination, both the traveller and the destination. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Satsang Q&A, CD 2 von 2, 10. January 2007

There were no religious wars in the ancient world before monotheism. Leonard Shlain, M.D. (1937-2009) US American writer, researcher, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor for surgery, UC San Francisco, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Penguin, 1. September 1999

Monotheism does not mirror human society. Humans are first and foremost social animals. A deity who was alone, not by choice but because there were no other companions for Him, was a concept without parallel in human society. The god of the Israelites did not have a wife, a son, a daughter, or a mother. Leonard Shlain, M.D. (1937-2009) US American writer, researcher, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor for surgery, UC San Francisco, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Penguin, 1. September 1999

Nicholas Copernicus [LoC 455] (1473-1543) displaced Mother Earth from the center of the universe and replaced her with Father Sun. Leonard Shlain, M.D. (1937-2009) US American writer, researcher, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor for surgery, UC San Francisco, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Penguin, 1. September 1999

Any development, at any stage, that strives toward patriarchal consciousness, toward the sun, looks on the moon spirit as the spirit of regression, as the terrible mother, as a witch. Erich Neumann (1905-1960) German psychologist, writer, The Origin and Evolution of Consciousness

The rise of masculine power and of patriarchal society probably started when man began to accumulate personal, as over against communal, property and found that his personal strength and prowess could increase his personal possessions. This change in secular power coincided with the rise of sun worship under a male priesthood. […] Sun worship was usually introduced and established by an edict of a military dictator, as happened in Babylon and Egypt, and probably other countries as well. Mary Esther Harding (1888-1971) US American Jungian analyst, Woman's Mysteries

According to ancient tradition the Great Goddess was always triple. Her triplicity is to be seen in the waxing moon, the full moon, and the waning moon, and in how she ruled the upper world, the earth, and the underworld. In human terms she was Maiden, Mother, and Crone. It is these major phases of a woman's life, and the other triplicities by analogy, that are encompassed by Demeter's story. For Demeter sees herself as innocent and untouched Maiden in her daughter, Kore. She is Mother of that daughter and of all that grows. And when she loses Kore, she plays the old woman, the Crone, whose childbearing years are gone and who stands close to the end of the cycle, to death. Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger Woolger, Ph.D., US American Jungian analyst, psychotherapist, lecturer, author specializing in past life regression, spirit release and shamanic healing, The Goddess Within, chapter 7 Demeter: Mother of us All, Ballantine Books, 7. October 1989

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity. Starhawk (*1951) US American feminist, author

Sophia is not a Goddess for women or men exclusively. She will give us a totality of wisdom, if we accept her for both the practical Earth wisdom of the Black Goddess and the transcendent cosmic wisdom of the World-Soul which are equally available to us. Caitlin Matthews (*1952) English author on alternative history on ceremonial magic, Celtic mythology, neoshamanism

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Female archetypes – Lucia René

Twelve female archetypes
Quadrant	#	Personal chakra Transpersonal chakra	Focus	Female archetype	Shadow Weakness	Persona Strength	Greek goddess archetype
1.	1.	Earth core	Matter	Mother Earth	Rape victim	Eve	Gaia Persephone
1.	2.	Root chakra	Freedom Survival	Amazon Warrior	Slave	Vigilante	Artemis
1.	3.	Second chakra	Relating Emotions	Tantric Lover	Whore	Wife Hera	Aphrodite
2.	4.	Third chakra	Force Power	Magician	Devilworshipper	Nun	Persephone
2.	5.	Heart chakra	Love	Nurturing Mother	Devouring smothering mother	Conventional mother	Demeter
2.	6.	Thymus Chakra	Compassion	Healer	Witch	Nurse, herbalist, midwife	Hestia – Artemis
3.	7.	Throat chakra	Power	Wise Woman	Heretic	Evangelist, evocateur	Athena – Metis
3.	8.	Third Eye chakra	Interrelatedness Wisdom	Oracle	Lunatic	Counselor	Hecate
3.	9.	Crown chakra	Surrender	Spiritual Leader	Cult leader	Royal figurehead	Hera
4.	10.	Solar system	Sacredness	Ascended Female Master	Demon	Muse	Muses
4.	11.	Galactic system	Spirit	Goddess	Bad Angel	Good Angel
4.	12.	Universal core	Creatrix	Mother Divine	Lilith	Virgin Mary

Sources – Basis: New Jerusalem Diagram; Conveyor: Lucia René, US American mystic, ordained Buddhist monk, author, spiritual teacher, woman's activist,
- Lucia René, Archetype-Diagram, PDF
- Video lecture excerpt by Lucia René, Workshop-12 Archetypes 12 Chakras, YouTube film, 9:31 minutes duration, 28. January 2011
- Audio radio interview with Lucia René, Balancing the feminine and masculine energies, presented by BlogTalkRadio, web radio station Paradan, host Daya Devi Doolin, 32:31 minutes duration, aired 24. February 2011
On the matrilineal female archetype of the Tantric Lover fractured into the patriarchal wife/whore

Older Sources
- Jean Shinoda Bolen, US American Jungian analyst, author, spritual teacher, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, Goddesses in Everywoman. A New Psychology of Women, Harpercollins, August 1985
- Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger Woolger, Goddess Within. A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women's Lives, Ballantine Books, 7. October 1989

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The Alphabet (literacy) vs. the Goddess (pictures) – left brain vs. right brain

Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus delivered feminine right-brained oral teachings. (minutes 37-43)
Masculine creeds evolved with the written word in an alphabet.
The first two Commandments of the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament [first book issued 900 BC] reject the influence of the Goddess and ban any form of representative art. Women were forbidden to be priestesses in the 3rd millennium when the New Testament was transcribed.
Since the introduction of photography and TV [emitting/inducing alpha and theta brain waves] we witness the rise of the feminine and the decline of the male [left-brained, Yang] dominance after 5,000 years of patriarchy.

Buddha and Confucius wrote nothing down. (minute 42:34)
Socrates: The (left-right-brained) way to get to the truth is to look somebody in the eye and debate one on one (not by dealing with one who resorts to written notes). (minute 37:40)
Jesus: "Turn the other cheek. The meek shall inherit the earth. The last shall be first."
(Jesus told his disciples to memorize his teachings, not to write them down.) (minute 39:00)

Source: Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com(1937-2009) US American writer, researcher, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor for surgery, UC San Francisco, The Alphabet vs. The Goddess, The Distinguished Lecture Series, Pepperdine University, Malibu California, November 2006, Google video, 1:15:14 duration, posted 19. December 2008

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Serpent power of the Goddess

Snake-witch (Ormhäxan) stone, Gotland, Sweden,
Fornsalen museum, Visby

The serpent has been associated with:

the World Tree
the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
the Tree of Immortality
the Universe or the stellar Milky Way.

In Old Sumer the serpent was coiled around the Tree of Life.
In the Old Norse World Tree it lies waiting at the roots of Yggdrasil in the company of the three norns, the goddesses of fate and esoteric knowledge, or with the goddess Hel.
In the Garden of the Hesperides the serpent was coiled around the Tree that bears the Golden Apples of Immortality accompanied by the three nymphs of the evening.

The serpent is a symbol of (magical religious) power and kingship.
The serpentine power is expressed in the flow of Kundalini, the energetic movement of Shakti (meaning power, energy, Goddess) through the being. Waking the Kundalini serpent is activating the power of the Goddess which will initiate the path to enlightenment.

The Snake Goddess was a central figure in myth and ritual.
70.000 years ago: Python Cave of Botzwana, Africa
Stone Age: The "Sleeping Goddess" in a burial pit surrounded by the skeletons of serpents, Megalithic Temple Culture on Malta
Approx. 7500-3000 BC: Old Europe, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Bronze Age Minoan Crete, Bronze Age Scandinavia, Greek-Roman Empire, India (Indus Valley), Viking Age Scandinavia, Mexico, Mami Wata (contemporary Africa)

Inspirational source: Video animation (images and text) The Goddess and the Serpent,
presented by Lady of the Labyrinth, YouTube film, 10:44 minutes duration, posted 2. August 2010

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Literatur

James Mellaart (*1925) britischer Archäologe, Catal Hüyük. Stadt aus der Steinzeit, Luebbe Verlagsgruppe, November 1982
Christa Zettel österreichische Journalistin, Mythen- und Zahlenforscherin, Schriftstellerin, Malerin, Die Macht der Mondin. Eine Reise zu den Wurzeln des Matriarchats, Heyne, 1996
Gerda Weiler (*1921) deutsche Psychologin, Pädagogin, Das Matriarchat im Alten Israel, Kohlhammer, 1989, 9. Februar 2006

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Literatur (engl.)

Antonia Anna "Toni" Wolff (1888-1953) Swiss Jungian analyst, close associate CGJ, Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche, 1956
Essay on four "types" or aspects of the feminine psyche: the Amazon, the Mother, the Hetaira (or Courtesan), and the Medial (or mediumistic) Woman
Robert Ranke-Graves, The White Goddess, Farrar Straus & Giroux, reprint, Januar 1997
Robert Ranke-Graves, The Greek Myths. The Complete and Definitive Edition, Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 5. Mai 2011
Robert Ranke-Graves, Adam's Rib and other anomalous elements in the Hebrew Creation Myth, Unbekannter Einband
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American writer, researcher, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor for surgery, UC San Franciscom The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image (Compass), Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin (Non-Classics), 1. September 1999
Andrew Harvey andrewharvey.net (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, "The Return of the Mother", Tarcher, 22. December 2000
Marguerite Rigoglioso Ph.D., Dominican University of California, California Institute of Integral Studies, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, on women and religion, author of The Cult of Divine Birth, Palgrave Macmillan, 27. April 2009

Films

Signs Out of Time, DVD documentary on archeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) Lithuanian US American archeologist, researcher of the Neolithic and Bronze Age Goddess cultures of "Old Europe's" origins in a cooperative, peaceful, Neolithic culture, 58:40 minute duration, Belili, 2003
Gimbutas' theories challenge conventional archaeology, spirituality, theology, and religious studies, while inspiring artists, feminists, environmentalists and activists.

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Wikipedia-Einträge

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Wikipedia entries Goddess movement

Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) Lithuanian US American archeologist, researcher of the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe", figure head of the socalled Goddess movement
Joan Marler, US American founder and president of the Institute of Archaeomythology, personal editor of Marija Gimbutas (1987-1994)

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Audio- und Videolinks (engl.)

Video lecture by Dale Allen, US American one-woman performer, In Our Right Minds, presented by InOurRightMinds.com, Google video excerpt, dynamic multi media performance, 95 minutes duration, 7:28 minutes duration, posted 13. December 2006
Exploring the roots of the left-brain dominant culture, the emergence of alphabetic literacy across the world and the correlating subjugation of women and all things "female", "the goddess archetype as a metaphor for the right-brain wisdom"
Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American writer, researcher, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor for surgery, UC San Francisco, The Alphabet vs. The Goddess, The Distinguished Lecture Series, Pepperdine University, Malibu California, November 2006, Google video, 1:15:14 duration, posted 19. December 2008
Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus delivered feminine right-brained oral teachings. (minutes 37-43)
Audio interview with Marguerite Rigoglioso, Ph.D., Dominican University of California, California Institute of Integral Studies, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, on women and religion, author of The Cult of Divine Birth The Cult of Divine Birth, podcast #028, presented by Gnostic Media Research & Publishing Online Podcast, host Jan Irvin, 26. April 2009
Video animation (images and text) The Goddess and the Serpent, presented by Lady of the Labyrinth, YouTube film, 10:44 minutes duration, posted 2. August 2010
Video interview with Bernard Lietaer Lietaer.com (*1942) solution oriented Belgian economist, co-designer of the European € currency, Central Bank of Belgium, professor of International Finance, University, Louvain, Belgium, research fellow Center for Sustainable Resources, UCB, co-founder of ACCESS Foundation, author, presented by newmoneyforanewworld.com, New Money for a New World, part 4 of 19, YouTube film, 4:52 minutes duration, posted 15. February 2012
The Great Mother represents the supply, nourishment. The 5000 year old patriarchal money system kept her outside and was stricken with her shadowsides: greed and fear (panic).