The main idea of this book, which abounds in words, dates and data, is basically very simple. It is about continuity. Not in the sense of a culture that ends after a time, of gods that disappear and, in their place, other cultures appear with other similar gods. It is not a continuity of diverse peoples with their diverse interests and cults. We are talking about the thread that binds all beings together from the beginning of history like the beads of a necklace. Although the Romans may seem very different from the Hindus, the Scythians or the people who painted Altamira, the truth is that their interests, their concerns and their perceptions of the transcendent were not so different. In what we call human beings there is an essence that takes on apparently different cultural or religious forms over time and space, but there is something in all this that continues, that continues to live and pulsate from the time the first human being became aware of himself until now. That ‘something’ took, over time, different names and appearances in women's cults from the most remote antiquity to the present day. Whether we call them Saraswati, Cybele, Kubaba, Hecate, Artemis, Anaitis, Demeter, Ishtar or Mary, they are considered different goddesses in different cultures; however, all of them, all our goddesses, come from the same mother, the Goddess. Each and every one of them is also the Goddess.
