Pre-Christian Greek and Roman civilization is already patriarchal or male-dominated, although religiously it is still pagan. So although Goddess worship did not at first disappear completely, it tended to take back seat to the worship of male war-gods. Goddess-worshipping cultures were defeated and their new rulers began subordinating goddesses to gods within the mythically portrayed society of deities. 4 That started much earlier, in Western Asia and India, probably with the invasion of Indo-European warrior-nomads. On Eisler's account, it is not institutional Christianity that initiated the suppression of women. One difference between Eisler's book and Brown's novel is that for Eisler the chalice represents Goddess-worshipping egalitarian cultures that were overrun at least 1500 years earlier.
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