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, The ancient Gods, S. 250

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, The ancient Gods, S. 91

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, The Origin and Evolution of Consciousness

There were no religious wars in the ancient world before monotheism. Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

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, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

There were no religious wars in the ancient world before monotheism. Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Nicholas Copernicus displaced Mother Earth from the center of the universe and replaced her with Father Sun. Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

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 and Roger J. Woolger, The Goddess Within, chapter 7 Demeter: Mother of us All

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

Robert Ranke-Graves, The White Goddess, Greek Myth, Adam's Rib
Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Penguin, 1. September 1999
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

Videotaped lecture by Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet vs. The Goddess, The Distinguished Lecture Series, Pepperdine University, Malibu California, 1:15:14 duration, Google video, November 2006, posted 19. December 2008
Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus delivered feminine right-brained oral teachings.
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 dominance after 5,000 years of patriarchy.
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