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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Women's Early Culture: Beginnings | |
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| The First Sex "In the Beginning, We Were All Created Female" | |
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| Marx and the Matriarchy | |
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| The Original Black Mother | |
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| Women as Culture Creators | |
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| The First Speech | |
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| Women's Early Religion | |
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| The First Mother | |
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| The Organic Religion of Early Women | |
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| Female Cosmology: The Creation of the Universe | |
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| The Cosmic Serpent | |
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| The World Egg: Yin/Yang | |
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| The Gynandrous Great Mother | |
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| Mysteries of the Throne, the Cave, and the Labyrinth | |
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| The Cult of the Dead | |
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| The Mother of Wild Animals and the Dance | |
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| Women's Culture and Religion in Neolithic Times | |
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| The First Settled Villages | |
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| Southeast Europe: The-Bird-and-Snake Goddess | |
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| The Megalithic Tomb: The Moon and the Stone | |
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| The Earth Mound as Cosmic Womb of the Pregnant Goddess | |
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| The Islands of Malta and Gozo | |
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| Twelve Circling Dancers | |
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| Earth Spirit, Serpent Spirals, and Blind Springs | |
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| Underground Caverns and Alchemic Mysteries | |
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| The Goddess at Avebury in Britain | |
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| Moon Time: The Great Intellectual Triumph of Women's Culture | |
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| Lunar Calendars | |
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| Moon Minds | |
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| Moon Mother | |
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| The Cow Goddess and New Foods | |
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| Mother and Daughter, and Rebirth | |
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| The Moon Tree | |
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| The Dark of the Moon and Moon Blood | |
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| Moon and Womb | |
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| Menstrual Rites: Rights and Taboos | |
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| The Original Woman: Witch, Rebel, Midwife, and Healer | |
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| Goddess of the Witches | |
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| Crete and the Bronze Age | |
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| Tantra and the World Spine | |
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| Patriarchal Culture and Religion | |
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| God as Father | |
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| The Olympian Male | |
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| Sun's Victory over the Dark Mother | |
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| The Sun God | |
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| The Jealous God | |
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| Split in the Garden | |
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| Life as a Mistake | |
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| The Witch-Hunts | |
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| Denial of the Mother: Denial of the People | |
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| The American Split | |
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| "The Divine Homosexual Family" | |
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| The Machine | |
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| Beyond the Male God and His Machine... | |
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| ...The Magic Flight Home | |
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| Respell the World | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photograph and Illustration Credits | |
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| Index | |