by William G. Dever. https://archive.org/details/DidGodHaveAWife/mode/2up Page 34 The Scandinavian branch of this school tended to be more extreme, positing not only celebrations of “divine kingship” in ancient Israel, but even of the hieros gamos, or “sacred marriage” of the gods. In these rites, priests and priestesses, the king and queen, or even “cult prostitutes” supposedly […]

Definitions, Scope and Topicality by Heide Goettner-Abendroth. The subject of Modern Matriarchal Studies is the investigation and presentation of non-patriarchal societies, those that existed in the past and those that still, to some degree, are still with us now. Even today there are peoples with matriarchal patterns in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. None […]

by Timothy Taylor. Taylor suggests that sexual tastes, prejudices, knowledge and politics not only lie deep in our evolutionary heritage, but also in many instances have actually directed fundamental biological adaptations

by Marija Gimbutas. The difficulty with the term matriarchy in 20th century anthropological scholarship is that it is assumed to represent a complete mirror image of patriarchy or androcracy – that is to say, a hierarchical structure with women ruling by force in the place of men. This is far from the reality of Old […]

by Riane Eisler. “a woman who behaves as a sexually and economically free person is a threat to the entire social and economic fabric of a rigidly male-dominated society.”