In Ancient Times, it was WOMEN who held all the power...harking back to the days of the Great Goddess. Snakes and so on...heavy stuff!!! Men worshipped the goddess by fornicating with her priestesses!
This is from the Paleolithic period...so VERY ancient history...
Amenhotep in Egypt introduced the ONE GOD. around 1525 BCE.
ALL lesser gods and goddesses were overthrown. Until Amenhotep died, that is.
Judaism similar to that which we know today derived from Amenhotep's one God, and the Patriarchal structure of religion began to be more common. In early Judaism...there was a goddess...but today she is largely ignored...just as women were largely ignored and relegated to the status of cattle in ancient Judea.
