When God Had a Wife pdf

Lynn Picknett est une auteure de livres qui traitent principalement de la pseudo-histoire et des théories populaires du complot, du paranormal, de l'occultisme et des mystères historiques et religieux.
Né à Folkestone, Kent, Angleterre, en avril 1947, Picknett a grandi dans une prétendue maison hantée à York, fréquentant la Park Grove Junior School et la Queen Anne Grammar School. Après avoir obtenu un diplôme universitaire avec un diplôme supérieur (avec distinction) en littérature anglaise, elle est brièvement devenue enseignante, vendeuse et comique avant de déménager à Londres en 1971 pour rejoindre Marshall Cavendish Publications en tant que sous-rédactrice en chef stagiaire.
Dans les années 1980, elle a été rédactrice en chef adjointe de The Unexplained et a contribué à de nombreuses autres publications. Elle a également contribué régulièrement à diverses émissions de radio, notamment celles de Michael van Straten et de Clive Bull sur LBC et Talk Radio. Elle a également été présentatrice de télévision pour Anglia et Southern TV.
En 1990, elle a été commissaire invitée de l'exposition The Unexplained at Bath de la Royal Photographic Society, assumant la même fonction en 1999 pour le National Museum of Photography, Film and Television de Bradford.

When God Had a Wife pdf par Lynn Picknett

When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition

• Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, including a 20th-century discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the warrior goddess Anat
• Explores the Hebrew pantheon of goddesses, including Yahweh’s wife, Asherah, goddess of fertility and childbirth
• Shows how both Jesus and his great rival Simon Magus were attempting to restore the ancient, goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. Despite what Jews and Christians--and indeed most people--believe, the ancient Israelites venerated several deities besides the Old Testament god Yahweh, including the goddess Asherah, Yahweh’s wife, who was worshipped openly in the Jerusalem Temple. After the reforms of King Josiah and Prophet Jeremiah, the religion recognized Yahweh alone, and history was rewritten to make it appear that it had always been that way. The worship of Asherah and other goddesses was now heresy, and so the status of women was downgraded and they were blamed for God’s wrath.
However, as Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal, the spiritual legacy of the Jewish goddesses and the Sacred Feminine lives on. Drawing on historical research, they examine how goddess worship thrived in early Judaism and included a pantheon of goddesses. They share new evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship that prayed to both male and female gods, including a 20th-century archaeological discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the goddess Anat. Uncovering the Sacred Feminine in early Christianity, the authors show how, in the first century AD, both Jesus and his great rival, Simon Magus, were attempting to restore the goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. The authors reveal how both men accorded great honor to the women they adored and who traveled with them as priestesses, Jesus’s Mary Magdalene and Simon’s Helen. But, as had happened centuries before, the Church rewrote history to erase the feminine side of the faith, deliberately ignoring Jesus’s real message and again condemning women to marginalization and worse.
Providing all the necessary evidence to restore the goddess to both Judaism and Christianity, Picknett and Prince expose the disastrous consequences of the suppression of the feminine from these two great religions and reveal how we have been collectively and instinctively craving the return of the Sacred Feminine for millennia.