Mother Earth or Mother Nature (Eve) is the spouse whom, in the Bible, Adam/Yahweh embraces in his original ancient function as the Sky-God. Earth and Sky meet, embrace, and create life in so many of the world's mythologies and religions.

For over 35,000 years the Goddess has been revered. Perhaps in the first millennia she was known only to the society of the women, where the secrets of life and death were kept. Over 35,000 years ago small images of the Goddess were created out of stone and ivory. They were used to initiate girls into the society of women. These objects are the most beautiful and most ancient works of art known.

Under the ages of the Goddess there were no great earthworks or wars or other significant events. Society went along smoothly and with little conflict or change.

Most of humanity lived in small villages of only several hundred. But as time went on, a few cities developed, some with populations of up to 10,000 people. It is in these cities that the patriarchal culture began to develop—the culture that would almost destroy the worship of the Goddess.

Where once the Goddess was the be-all, end-all of spirituality, she now was the wife or partner of a higher being, a male god.

This began before 4000 BC. One instance is that of Isis, the archetypical goddess of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Isis is the Greek form of her real name—Ast.

For thousands of years she was worshipped from Spain to Persia, from the Pyrenees to the Atlas Mountains, under her various other names—Astarte, Ashera, Asteroth, Queen of Heaven, and many more.

She was revered as the greatest and most beloved of all the Egyptian goddesses. Her symbol, the star Sirius, signaled the commencement of the Nile flood when it rose with the sun each year in early summer.

Isis was both a celestial and terrestrial goddess, and she absorbed many of the qualities of the more ancient Het-Hert (Hathor), while acquiring her own unique history. She is the goddess of family love, loyalty, all feminine principles and, like the more ancient Het-Hert, of magic and creativity.

The legend of Isis and her husband Osiris (or, in Egyptian, Ausar) is one of the greatest love stories ever told. Since it was customary for Egyptian royalty to marry within the immediate family whenever possible, so it was in their gods. Thus, Osiris was married to his sister Isis, and their brother Seth was married to their sister Nepthys (in Egyptian, Nebt-Het). Because she was unable to bear children with Seth, Nepthys tricked Osiris into sleeping with her. When Nephthys' husband Seth discovered this treachery, he attacked Osiris and chopped him into pieces, hiding the body parts all over the world so that they could not be reassembled.