Witch"

Analysis of the POV of story. Deifications. "Fertility cults" of the past of degenerated into "sterility-cults" [155] which associate shame with every aspect of reproduction. The entire work is filled with gems for people who love the study of the Bible. [Abraham was a prince of the Hittites (!) and the Levite prophet Ezekiel tells Israel "Your father was an Amorite, your mother a Hittite" 107].

The highlight for me is Chapter Ten--"Unraveling the Myth of Adam and Eve". Starting with 'Innana, the Divine Mother who reveals the Laws', at the threshhold of the earliest Sumerian period. She was a Serpent Goddess! Interpreter of dreams of an unrevealed future. Then Ishtar of Babylon, through the Pythias, and krait-bitten seers. Then the most important symbol in the story, the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil drawn from the golden rolling apple tree of Hera (Egyptian Hathor - Eye of Wisdom/Serpent Lady, to eat of her flesh is to share communion) about which the serpent Ladon coiled. Despite the warnings of the Levite priests--who had to keep re-asserting the warnings for a thousand years--Jewish women continued to participate in what were essentially Sumerian Goddess rituals surrounding procreation. A male priesthood denigrating a religion with female priests/zonah=meaning both "prostitute" and "prophetess".

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