It's no secret that as monothestic religions gained prevalence a lot of female archetypes and gods were removed or naturally given back seats as their roles changed. And it wasn't just in large polythestic religions with many many gods, it happened in other religious paradigms too. I mean look at ancient Egyptian beliefs. Osiris had his Isis, and that seemed to be a loving partnership. Further on the point of religious evolution, he had a brother Set (half brother? cousin? I forget exactly.) and he was a Satan character. Some even say that that's a large part of where Satan evolved from. There are of course other pieces, like the Pagan Horned God. But when you look at the history of religions there are places where they change quite significantly, yet many of them come back to a common branch in philosophy and time.
However that makes it hard to say where one religion or belief ends and the other starts.
Many people feel threatened when looking at theories (or really just historical records of the evolution of beliefs) like this because beliefs are so deeply ingrained and they often don't have a ton of knowledge of the evolution of their own religion or other belief systems.
The common belief that prevails of God in the western world is of a lone male creator. So naturally, any digging into where this belief may have started and if it actually started as a different idea will not be looked as a better understanding of this belief, but rather a completely different belief or religion that is obviously erroneous to those holding the current one.
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