Hortensia de los Santos

Seeker of Ancient Echoes

The Wound in the World: When the Mothers Were Forgotten

The erasure of the feminine from history was not merely the silencing of women’s voices—
it was the shattering of balance.
When the image of the divine shifted from Mother Earth to Father God, 
something tore in the soul of humanity. 
No longer was creation a womb, a dance, a cycle
—but a hierarchy, a command, a conquest.
In the world of the Goddess, 
as Mariya Gimbutas revealed, 
life was a spiral—birth, death, and rebirth. 
Earth was alive. Symbols carried power. 
Women were not only givers of life, 
but mediators between the seen and unseen. 
Power was not domination, but flow.
But the arrival of peoples from the Eurasian steppes,
whose warrior culture and sky-god pantheon replaced the older,
Earth-centered traditions of Old Europe created a new mythology:
We inherited instead a world where the divine was far away, unreachable,male
—and where to be born woman was to begin at a disadvantage.

But the spiral never truly ends.
The symbols never stopped appearing.

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