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From around 10,000-7,000 BCE (Before Common Era) there appeared in various places throughout the world, communities based on agriculture. These agricultural communities were well planned villages and towns, some of which later on developed elaborate irrigation and sanitation systems. Extensive trade also existed between these early settlements, even though some of them were thousands of miles apart.

One of the most striking features about these communities however, was the fact they were all built without any fortifications or defenses of any kind. These early cultures simply didn't manufacture weapons of war.

In general, the development of technology served the purposes of sustaining and enhancing the quality of life. Technology made life more pleasurable, freeing up time and creative energy. This is the Age of decorated pottery and other art works, stone carvings, and jewelry made from copper and gold. Writing, mathematics and astronomy also had their beginnings somewhere between 4,000 and 3,000 BCE.

Social organizations were founded on the relationship of mothers caring for their children. Nurturing and cooperation were the values that pervaded all activities. There was common ownership of the means of production, and the equal distribution of the wealth. There was also equality between men and women, with women playing a vital role at all levels of society.

Reigning supreme over these societies from horizon to horizon, was the Queen of Heaven and Earth - the Goddess. Known by many different names in many different lands, she was the origin and the substance of all Creation. She was the nurturing Mother, the indulgent Lover, and the merciful Grandmother, who received the dying back into her arms, to be reborn again. She was the living Whole, and all life's creative expressions were unique parts of this wholeness. Life was integrated into a mysterious, yet beautiful Cosmos.

This Cosmology then, was the original spiritual impulse of humanity come to bloom in all its magnificence. It was grounded in a biocentric spirituality, which perceived Nature as a living manifestation of the Divine, and sought to maintain a sacred bond with the rhythmic processes of the Earth.

Beyond the borders of this Sacred Reality, beyond the peaceful values of its culture, brewing in the dim twilight mists of the collective unconscious mind of civilized humanity, was a catastrophe from which the world is yet trying to recover. Out on the cold and arid steps of central Asia there lived a huge population of tribes, whose cultural evolution had developed along radically different lines.

At the very heart of this culture we do not find the paradigm of the nurturing mother, but one of a distant and dominating father. In Greek and Latin, the father and head of the household was known as "pater". From this word we get the term "patriarchy", which is a social organization where the "pater" or father rules exclusively.

In the structure of patriarchy, the male has absolute authority over all his dependents, including decisions of life and death. All wealth and property is owned by adult males, and passed down through the male line. Descent and succession are always traced through the male line as well.

This social arrangement was a reflection of the prevailing mythology of the culture. Within their belief system, these people worshipped Gods who were distant and many times wrathful. These male deities lived in the sky or on inaccessible mountaintops, and were perceived as having absolute supremacy and demanded blind obedience. Sometimes they wielded thunderbolts as a weapon of their wrath and punishment. Storms wind and fire were also instruments of their domination.

The dynamics of this Cosmology was based on fear. The Natural World was not perceived as a friendly place, producing an abundance of food and opportunities for pleasure and enjoyment. Rather, the world was perceived as a place of hostility, where the scarcity of food made life a constant struggle. Nature had to be appeased, appropriated, controlled or dominated in order for life to continue.

Another extremely important feature of their Cosmology was that in their eyes, the Natural World was not birthed. It was not perceived as part of the living body of the Deity. Rather, their world was made by a Creator, who remained separated from his creation. Spirit and Nature were split apart, and even antagonistic to one another.

With this type of mythology then, we can easily see how the cultural values that evolved among these patriarchal tribes were so radically different from those of the earlier Goddess centered cultures.

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The Goddess:

The picture of the world before 3100 B.C.E. has been clouded in mystery and mythology, and not even mentioned in History textbooks. But contrary to popular ignorance, for decades now, anthropologists and archeologists have been constructing a picture of this period that is increasingly becoming quite clear.

From around 10,000 – 7,000 B.C.E. there appeared in various places throughout the world communities based on agriculture. Excavations at Catal Huyuk in what is now Turkey, Teleilat el Ghassul in the Jordan valley, the Hussuna, Samarran and Halaf cultures of the Mesopotamian plain just to mention a few, all show conclusively that these early agricultural communities were well planned villages and towns, some with elaborate irrigation and even sanitation systems.

One of the most striking features about these communities however, was the fact they were all built without any fortifications or defenses of any kind. And astonishingly these early cultures didn’t manufacture weapons of war.

This period represents a time when human relations were primarily based on peace, cooperation and mutual aid. The development of technology was used to enhance their quality of life. And everywhere, there was found plenty of beautifully decorated pottery, wall paintings, sculptures and figurines all displaying a rich array of symbols of nature; decorative motifs that portrayed the sun, moon serpents, bulls and butterflies.

No where in these early settlements do we find scenes of fighting, warfare or conquest. And what is perhaps the most important discovery in this whole period from 10,000 to 3,500 B.C.E. is the fact that the primary and universal image of their deity was always Female.

Reigning supreme over these agricultural societies from horizon to horizon was the Mother of Heaven and Earth – the Goddess. In fact, in the Sumerian language, the earliest language we have records of, the first written word for their concept of deity was AMA-TU-AN-KI, which literally translates: "Mother – who gives birth to - Heaven – Earth.

From Sumer to Egypt to India, She was known by many different names and was considered to be the origin and sustenance of Life. She was seen as the nurturing Mother, the indulgent Lover, and the merciful Grandmother who received the dying back into her arms to be reborn. Her life flowed through all of Creation, and all of Life’s creative expressions were unique parts of Her wholeness.

Given this brief cultural background for the previous seven thousand years or so, we now arrive at a point in 3,100 B.C.E. when something quite unexpected presents itself on the world stage; something so radical and yet profound that it represents nothing less than a real shift in the consciousness of the human species. This is the zero point in the Mayan calendar – the day of Creation. Fortunately for us we don’t need to speculate as to what happened in 3,100 B.C.E. – we can actually peer across the millennia and see for ourselves. For the story has been carved in stone....

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