I don't know about that, but certainly guardians of the gen…

I don't know about that, but certainly guardians of the gene pool. I probably went off about this before, but I think it's fascinating how the concept of a creator goddess is connected to the somewhat confused idea that life just springs forth from women unprovoked. This probably goes back to before we as a species made the connection between sexual intercourse and pregnancy/birth. Life just miraculously sprang forth from the womb. When we made the connection between intercourse and pregnancy, the picture changed: Now you have a father who plants a seed which then grows in the earth (female). On the metaphysical level this sparks the idea of going one step deeper and thinking about what created the universe or "mother earth" in the first place, instead of looking at them as the first thing, thus going from a mother-goddess concept to a Father-Creator. Interestingly, we seem to be returning to the arguably more primitive pagan concept, as evidenced by the contemporary deification of the feminine and female supremacist ideologies.