num_pages: 480
description: Before the rise of monotheism the early Hebrews were pagan and God had a wife the Mother Goddess. The Bible tells the story of their divorce. Goddess worship promoted equality for women social justice spiritual connection to nature and the cycles of life cannabis sexual freedom celebrated transgenders and practiced abortions. When the Goddess was thrown out of the Hebrew temple by the monotheists so too were all of these deeply ancient traditions. Many familiar Bible stories and characters are reinterpreted by showing where the Goddess appears and the Bible is reframed by comparing it to the mythologies of neighboring cultures. 
language: English
title: A History of the Goddess: From the Ice Age to the Bible
publisher: Keneh Press