id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 639 Gamble, Eliza Burt The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion .txt text/plain 92055 3821 64 female and male, has had on the development of our present God-idea, of various nations, in the customs, and popular usages."(6) As treeand sun-worship, or the adoration of Nature's processes, finally became a time when a mother and her child represented the Deity, the sun was dethrone the female principle in the god-idea, the Great Mother, under female element throughout Nature as God. The length of time which the principles which in preceding ages they had adored as God. We have seen that in every country upon the earth there is a tradition power, and Vishnu herself has become transformed into a male God. Although the rites connected with the worship of Cybele were phallic earliest form of religion, namely, Nature-worship, the gods have never female God of Nature who was once worshipped by every people on the the fact that the god-idea was originally worshipped as female, still, ./cache/639.txt ./txt/639.txt