One place where this is obvious is in the various forms of goddess spirituality, where more radical versions of feminism merge with new spirituality ideas. The underlying idea is that in the ancient past, goddess worship was the religion of humanity, and people lived in peace and harmony in egalitarian, matrilineal societies. (These were originally described as matriarchal, but the term implies that women were superior to men, which describes a hierarchical system that only came with patriarchy. So the description of the prehistoric state was rewritten as egalitarian but matrilineal, that is,
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