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Actually, I researched my way into this subject. I never meant to write about it, but one book led to another. I have researched back to the caves, and there is strong evidence that women were cave painters and shamans. A number of books suggest this.
Women were equal to men prior to about 7 or 8 thousand years ago. If you read the second Adam and Eve story in the Torah, that slaps women back pretty badly. Adam becomes Eve's master, so to speak. And the symbols of the tree and serpent that become tabboo were the symbols of the goddess culture that reigned for at least 30,000 years. How do we know? Archaeologists have found carvings that only portray women assumed to be goddesses. No male gods until at least 10,000 years ago.
In the caves they found special burials. 40,000 years ago a woman was buried in the back of a cave in a small boat with thousands of black beads that took thousands of man hours to carve. Women have been found in other special burials in the upper and middle Paleolithic. Not men. I think it's clear that women had inherint powers. I think they were more sensitive to their intuition, but whatever they were the shamans and special people.
So, obviously things changed, and that change was supported in writing, something men took control over.
So, I'm going back to the beginnings of humanity. And women have been slapped back many times. By religion. That's documented. It's not perceived slights that happen in our culture that I've spent 15 years studying. It's the history of humanity.
