Reply #4: Oh yes.

[lildreamer316]

I know of her but have not read her work. She is right on the money, though; and this is the same basic premise Eisler uses. "When God Was A Woman" by Merlin Stone is about this too, athough I'm sure you've already read that one. You know what I found because of these books? The Mists Of Avalon. I think it really puts a human face on the whole thing. The introduction/preface, really, is pure poetry.

"For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth: that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth had many faces and the truth is like the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive in the Holy Isle of Eternity or among the priests with their bells and their death and their Satan and Hell and damnation . . . but perhaps I am unjust even to them. Even the Lady of the Lake, who hated a priest's robe as she would have hated a poisonous viper, and with good cause too, chid me once for speaking evil of their God.

"For all the Gods are one God," she said to me then, as she had said many times before, and as I have said to my own novices many times, and as every priestess who comes after me will say again, "and all the Goddesses are one Goddess, and there is only one Initiator. And to every man his own truth, and the God within."