Later ages dismissed accounts of Goddess-worship as “myths” or “cults.” But since Sir Arthur Evans, discoverer of the lost Minoan civilization at the turn of this century, stated that all the innumerable goddess-figures he had discovered represented “the same Great Mother…whose worship under various names and titles extended over a large part of Asia Minor and the regions beyond,” modern scholarship has accepted that “the Great Goddess, the ‘Original Mother without a Spouse,’ was in full control of all the mythologies” as “a worldwide fact.”
