that said, goddess worship - or at least the crafting of feminine figurines which modern archaeologists think were probably figures of goddesses - goes back to the very beginning of our species. in fact, the presence of such figurines is one of the indicators that archaeologists use to differentiate homo sapien sapiens remains from the remains of other species of hominids that have since gone extinct.

i’m also not convinced that goddess worship and a cyclical understanding of time are necessarily linked. correlation does not prove causality, after all, though it can be an indicator of a common origin. Personally, I would guess that that common origin would be an economy based on hunting, gathering, and permaculture; as oppossed to agriculture.

none of which means that we can’t learn something from other earlier cultures whose conception of deity included both female and male aspects.

just my 2 cents,
lynx