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Religious Books, Rasta Books, History Books, African Studies, Rastafari Books, Jamaica History, Egyptian Books and studies
Archaeologically documented, this story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names – Astarte, Isis, Ishtar, among others – she reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. Under her, women’s roles differed markedly from those in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Women bought and sold property, traded in the marketplace, and the inheritance of title and property was passed from mother to daughter. How did the change that followed come about? By documenting the wholesale rewriting of myth and religious dogmas, author Merlin Stone details a most ancient the patriarchal re-imaging of the Goddess as a wanton, depraved figure. This is the portrait that laid the foundation for one of culture’s greatest shams – the legend of Adam and the fallen Eve.
