hi, I'm a lesbian bulldyke feminist & drag king super queer & I dig that you've got a brand new womyn-only religion. I have to add tho since I studied feminist studies, the original religion may be "matristic" but not anything like what you want it to be. First of all monotheism is an invention of Jews after Babylonian captivity, and only after Jews came in contact with civilized world of Mesopotamia. All primitive/native religions are animistic and polytheistic (even that is misleading cos they did not have that inflated big almighty god delusion). Second, the old way was never womyn-only or gynocentric, but only egalitarian, with womyn entrusted with mysteries. Third, there was no hierarchy or what you call traditional social orders before patriarchy. People lived peacefully with the Gaia & everyone was equal. I hope you get some enlightenment, this is okay but still classist, elitist and anti-democratic, just like xtianity. And of course our ancient foremothers all believed in evolution and probably attended the Democratic National Convention. Sorry to be a little flippant, but really - what an overwhelming coincidence that the earth's most ancient civilizations just happened to believe exactly what modern liberals believe and to espouse ideologies of the past few centuries of white European thought. There are so many specifics that might be answered here. The idea that "monotheism" was invented by the Abrahamic faiths, for example is a vast oversimplification. It would be much truer to say that polytheism was invented by the Hebraic cultus. What do we mean by that? We mean that outside of the Hebraic sphere the whole monotheist/polytheist pseudo-argument has never existed. All "native" religions recognize multiple powers, but also recognize a supreme unity. So do we. As for ourselves: do we worship one God, or do we call Her three? Or Seven? The question really only arises when one starts treating the matter with an inappropriate literalism. But "polytheism" in the Hebraic sense of the term has only rarely existed and that in spiritually degenerate societies such as those of the Classical era in Europe. Were the hebraic traditions wrong to attack polytheism? No, because they were confronted with societies in which the multiplicity of the Divine had been over-literalized to the extent that the sense of the Absolute was almost lost. But they were certainly wrong when they imagined that Hindus or most native peoples were "polytheist" in that sense. But to say "I believe in polytheism" - a word coined and defined by Hebraists and taking it in precisely the pejorative sense that they rightly condemned - is to say: "I believe in a universe of pure relativity in which there is no center and no Absolute. I believe in a godless universe." Which of course is precisely what large numbers of people do believe: but there is no warrant for projecting those very recent beliefs on our ancient mothers.