Pregnancy / Chakra Balancing Amulet

Humans originated in Africa 250,000 yrs ago. Until 8000 BCE, our ancestors organized themselves into hunter-gatherer societies. Humans developed realization that their life was finite; they would all die. This resulted in religious belief. Societies which relied on hunting developed hunting gods to worship. Gatherers created Goddesses. The importance of fertility in crops, domesticated animals, wild animals & tribe itself were of great importance to survival. Female life-giving principle was divine & a great mystery. Goddess statues still survive from this era circa 30,000 BCE to 1987 CE. Old European culture stressed the female as divine & lasted for tens of thousands of yrs in what is now Europe. They lived in peace; with a lack of defensive fortifications around their hamlets. As evidenced by their funeral customs, males & females had equal status. Their society was matrilineal; children took their mothers' name. Life was based on lunar/not solar calendar. Time was experienced as a repetitive cycle not linearly. Suppression of Goddess worship in Western Europe occurred a few thousand yrs BCE, when Indo-Europeans invaded Europe from the East. They brought refinements of modern civilization: horse, war, belief in male Gods, exploitation of nature, knowledge of the male role in procreation. Goddess worship was combined with worship of male Gods to produce a Pagan polytheistic religions, among Greeks, Romans, Celts. The invention of writing rewired the human brain with profound consequences for culture. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain function, anthropology, history & religion & literacy reinforced the brain's linear, abstract, predominantly masculine left hemisphere at expense of holistic, iconic feminine right one. This shift upset balance between men & women initiating the disappearance of goddesses, abhorrence of images & in literacy's early stages, decline of women's political status. Patriarchy & misogyny followed.