Laurie Martin-Gardner - The Hidden Goddess: The Quest for the Divine Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition--from Asherah to Mary Magdalene

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The Hidden Goddess. The banished and shattered goddess. The lost. The forgotten. Who was she? Who praised her name? And what fate befell her?

There are no easy answers to these questions. Details have been erased and distorted over the centuries. Her altars have been toppled and her sanctuaries razed. She is cloaked in controversy, welcomed by few and opposed by many. Yet despite the desperate attempts by reformers and zealots to erase her name from the collective human memory, remnants of her reign lingers, waiting to be discovered in the most unlikely of places the Hebrew Bible.

To understand her story, we must for a moment, go back to the beginning. Although scholars now date the earliest examples of goddess worship to approximately 25,000 years ago, our story began in the second millennium BCE. Great civilizations had emerged along the Euphrates and Nile rivers. All-powerful kings and pharaohs shaped the destiny of humankind. Empires rose and fell, combined and dispersed.

For the common people of the era, survival was oftentimes incredibly difficult. Political turmoil, devastating poverty, and anxiety over the mysteries and danger that seemed to lurk around every corner permeated all aspects of life. The world was, as it had always been, in the midst of great change and evolution. To interpret the chaotic environment in which they lived, to glean from the unknown some sense of direction, the people of antiquity turned their thoughts to the higher realms of the gods and goddesses.