From the time the Puritans landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, America's morality and sexuality has been controlled by a very small minority. Of the 18 married women on the Mayflower only 5 survived the first winter creating a ratio of 10 men to each women. Adultery was so prevalent among the Puritans at Plymouth that it is impossible to say who the Fathers of our Country really were. Yet as few as two or three male leaders were able to exert such absolute control as to punish adulterers by flogging and branding. Fornicators were only flogged but that did not keep the majority from having premarital and extramarital sex. Premarital sex was so pervasive in fact that by the time of the American Revolution, 65% of Americans were bastards. Estimates of how many children were conceived out of wedlock but born after the mother married, range from 80-90%. Obviously revolutionary America did not believe in, nor follow Puritan morality. America was founded as a nation of minority rule where fewer than 15% of the eligible voters controlled the government. The actual majority, never counted by historians – the Native Americans – were never even considered for the vote. They may have marveled at Puritan bigotry but found themselves not only subject to the white-man's laws but to his genocides as well – after all those heathens, like the priestess of The Goddess before them, would pollute the morals of the christian people.

How is it that a small minority could exert such absolute control over an entire nation? Over our morals and even over what can be taught or preached? The answer lies in the Puritan's drive for self-preservation. The Puritan's zeal to convert the world, was, like the Catholics, secondary to their desire to control the world. And control they did. Although the Puritans originally were forced to endure great persecution, they became the great persecutors. It was at the height of persecution, when the Puritan movement was without political power, that Plymouth was settled. America was not the "promised land" but a hell-hole where no English colony had survived. Being sent to America gave only slightly more hope than being sent to the gallows.

Catholic Spain was laying claim to more and more land as hoards of Spaniards flocked to the New World, and the threat of Catholic expansion sent torrents of fear into the heart of every Protestant – but especially the Puritans. The Puritans had to succeeded where all others had failed because it was their "god's will for his people to rule", "his mandate to establish a new Jerusalem", which became, Salem. Puritan's success was not due to the providence of their god, however, but to their willingness to submit to the absolute control of two strong men, to combine intellect, resources and manpower; to hold all things in common – too many things in common to suit the married men – with a common goal of self preservation. This was religious communism. The Colonists who followed would adopt the ethic of the Puritans who were obviously "God's Chosen". It helped that most of the Colonists were Protestant, as Puritans were nothing more than Protestants with a different political view.

The Puritan's struggle was the ultimate trial by Wager of Battle, in which the mortal combat was waged, not with the accuser but with nature itself. Like the trial by Wager of Battle which was an integral part of English law, in which the accused fought the accuser in mortal combat, letting heaven give the victory to the man who was right, the success of the Puritan colony was seen as divine intervention. So powerful was the divine-message that thirty-three years later the quintessential Puritan, Oliver Cromwell, would be proclaimed "Lord Protector" of England. Cromwell only ruled for 5 years and was so hated by the masses that his body was dug from the grave and hanged on a gallows.

The Puritan's failure in England, did not effect America where arguments of purging the Church of Catholic influence were meaningless. In the hostile “promised land,” Puritan political power became so entrenched that their religious views would be imposed on the generations of colonists to come. 370 years later we are still captives of Puritan moral ethic and sexual proscriptions. The Puritans both as a religion and a political movement are gone, ideologically replaced by the fundamentalist christianity which, like Puritanism, is as much a political movement as it is religious.

Sex is no longer just a religious issue, it has become a political issue. From the mayors and councilmen of cities, legislators and governors of the States, to the United States Senators and Congressmen – the President – the politics of sex demands an outward profession of the Puritan religious ethic; an ethic that was never held by the majority at any time in our history. In no other country in the world is a politician required to parade his wife, children, church attendance and sexual fidelity before the public as a sign of Puritan values. Yet this demand by 15% of the people is not only respected, but courted by nearly every politician in America. But even 15% may be too high a figure as Neo-Puritanism (christian fundamentalism) reached its zenith with the "Moral Majority" which had the support of less then 5% of Americans. Yet the Moral Majority's failure to appeal to the masses was due to its success in political control. The movement had kept "christian" Presidents (Carter and Reagan) in office for ten years and controlled a majority of both Republicans and Democrats at all levels of government. It could go no further. More than a decade after the demise of the Moral Majority, there is still a "christian President" and a "christian" Supreme Court, which will dictate the morals of this nation for years to come.

In this "Land of the Free" where there is freedom of religion, we are slaves to a minority religion. For it is not christianity that rules, but the small purists christians, be they Catholic, fundamentalist or bigots. Our education system had become a tool for the preservation of christian history and morality. Sex education – denounced by their churches – is nothing more than a biology course in reproduction. Television prohibits offending christian morality. Fundamentalists regulate what sexual material we can buy, where we can buy it and how it is advertised; and all this is to preserve and perpetuate their Judaeo/Christian religious doctrines. Paramount among these doctrines is that the "Adversary" uses sex to gain control over people – that sex is evil outside marriage.

But marital fidelity is as much a political concept as it is religious. The "christian family" with the father as the patriarch ruler is as anachronistic as a christian America. Yet with 50% of all marriages ending in divorce, maintaining the "white christian" family, has become a political-religious issue, just as abortion has become the quintessential religious issue – an approval of the christian doctrine that life begins at conception. But even that concept had no support outside the Catholic Church until about 1882. The Common Law of England and the civil laws of most European countries held that life began when the infant drew its first breath of life. But this was a doctrine of The Goddess religions, and like Her people who had been eliminated by christian genocide, Her doctrines had to be replaced completely by christian doctrines.

The sexuality of The Goddess was feared by christians from their beginning, and Her sexuality is feared today. Christians – Puritans – fundamentalists are in dread of a sex-positive religion that will have a greater appeal than their sex-negative, ascetic doctrines. Christians fear the haunting shadows of their forgotten ancestors – those ancients who worshiped The Goddess in Her temples and groves – who still bring up images of hidden memories of Her priestesses in their subconscious and speak a truth, which christians must openly deny. Christians fear the obvious, that after 2000 years their dead god has not returned, and the twilight of christianity has arrived – that long awaited time when the "Lady of the New Dawn" would arrive.

And I have arrived.

The religion of The Goddess is the oldest in the world. The priesthood that I hold is dated back to 3200 B.C. by the oldest written records that have yet been discovered. I am the 537th High Priestess in direct line of that Order, an Order which has its roots in the din of mankind. But it is in Egypt that my religion and my priesthood has its most glorious recorded history. For it was my religion that founded Egypt and made it the land of secrets. Egypt's monuments, her art, her culture, and her religion ring true and attests to the Goddess-given sexuality and sensuality of the mortal body.

The Palate of Narmar (c. 3200 BCE) is done in elaborate Egyptian art and hieroglyphics that relate how "Min" (Greek Menes) united Upper and Lower Egypt under the Goddess Hathor and Her High Priestess, TeTa. TeTa was the 354th High Priestess in my direct Priesthood linage. Menes is called Narmar by Egytologist who assume because the pictographs are depicted from bottom top, the hieroglyphics must also read from bottom to top.

Menes is called Narmar by Egytologist who assume because the pictographs are depicted from bottom top, the hieroglyphics must also read from bottom to top.

Menes (literally of Min) was king of Upper Egypt and clearly displays the marks of Hathor's vulva on his knees, symbolizing that even the great king knelt before Hathor and Her High Priestess. On the palate which was used to mix eye makeup, TeTa is shown as Menes' wife leading the armies of Lower Egypt before her husband. It was only when Menes and TeTa united to drive out the foreign invaders that the "Two Lands" became one. The new capital was established at Min (Memphis) in Lower Egypt which was the ancestral home of Teta. It was the king, depicted as twice the height of Teta, who came to the queen. The union of the "Two Lands" was further solidified by making Dendra in Upper (Southern) Egypt the seat of the Goddess Hathor. Her temple at Dendra remained the seat of Her power well into the Christian era.

These are not mere stick drawings like those found on cave walls in Europe during this period, but shows a sophistication that was never obtained by the Hebrews even 3000 years later. It is obvious that the civilization and religion existed long before the time of Menes, but no other record has survived.

The palate, which is in the Cairo museum, measures (approxmiately) 25 1/2 inches high - the height of the Egyptian Sacred Cubit. The entire palate is laid out in geometric proportions which (with a single later modification) were used in all sacred Egyptian writings for over 3,500 years.

However this is not the earliest record we have of the Egyptian religion. Many early historians have written about the events that took place in Egypt before 3200 B.C. There is historical evidence that many writings, statues, tombs, obelisks and monuments once existed from long before that time. Some of these recorded the events of 12,000 years of Egyptian history, but they are forever lost. Many historians claim these lost records that are mentioned in several texts, were actually written long after the events. The problem with that is the Egyptians did not write history. They recorded the events of the day and while these documents were often copied, the Egyptians and did not rewrite them or change them. The Palate is merely the oldest, extant written record that attest to the religion of the Goddess.

Archeology has uncovered even earlier evidences of the worship of a Goddess outside of Egypt. Female figures called "Venus figurine" have been found which date back as far 25,000 B.C. in what has been interpreted as sacred settings, that is, in a circle of stones. Statues of Goddess figures have been found all over the near east and Europe, Africa, as well as in both North and South America. Excavations at Jericho (in modern Jordan) dated to 9,000 (BCE) reveal that Goddess worship was well established 4,000 years before the Jewish god created man. Excavations at Catal Huyuk (in western Turkey) date to 6,500 BCE and reveal an extensive Goddess worship in which sex was not only evident but paramount in the cultures.

Sometimes when people call me on the phone they ask, usually rather belligerently, "Who is your Goddess?" "What's Her name?" These belligerent callers usually are believers in a male god whom they call God, with a capital "G" . But they refuse to allow the Goddess to be called Goddess with a capital "G". They insist that She must have some other common name. In the English language we refer to The Goddess as "The Most High Goddess",, our Heavenly Mother, The Goddess of The Most High. She has a name, but we do not reveal it outside of the religion. However, most people do not even know the name of their own god. They call their god, God, or Heavenly Father. But God is not their god's name, it's a title men give to a deity they neither know nor understand.

If you ask a christian or Jew who their god is, what's his name, they can't tell you. Jews and Christians alike refer to their god as "the God of the Most High" and even "the Most High God". Christians will tell you their god's name is Jesus Christ. But Christ is a title, meaning the anointed one. The man, Jesus, was given the title, "the Christ" by his followers. However both Jesus and Christ came into existence a mere 2000 years ago, and Jesus was certainly not the name of the Jewish god.

The closest the Jews come to a name for their god is Yahweh, or as some call him Jehovah. But Jehovah had never been pronounced until about 1500, when the letter “J” was added to the English language, and religious scholars gave that as a pronunciation. Yahweh is translated in the Bible as LORD. But Lord is just another title, so that the name of the Jewish god becomes two titles, LORD God. It was their Shem Hammephorash for which neither Yahweh nor Jehovah are the correct pronunciations. The Jews considered the name of their god to be so sacred that it was only pronounced once a year and only by the High Priest in the temple in Jerusalem. Additionally, only the Hebrew consonants which correspond to IHUH or JHUH, which comprise the Tetragrammaton - the Ineffable name, were written. Instead of pronouncing the name the Jews substituted the name "Adonai" for the name of their god. Or so they claim. But Adonis is the Greek God of love and beauty. It is quite probable that the Jews simply did not have a name for their god, so they borrowed the Greek name early in Jewish history. Whatever the name of the Jewish god may have been, there hasn't been a Jewish high priest who could pronounce that name in the temple for over 1900 years. The fact is, there is not a modern Jew who knows how to pronounce his own god's name. And the christian god does not even have a name.

Of the trinity religions, (Judaism/christianity/Islam) only Islam has a name for their god, Allah. However, Allah was a god until the time of Mohammed, c. 650 A.D. Before that time Allaht, (with a feminine "t" ending) was the name of the Arab Goddess. Even today, the Arabs in Egypt speak of the Goddess, Allaht, or refer to Allaht as the Spirit who guards the ancient monuments when the sun goes down.

There are some, like the Mormons, who give Elohim, as the name of God, but Elohim is actually a feminine word meaning a plurality of gods, i.e. goddesses, not god. But a female god disturbs Jews and Mormons alike – how can there be a god with a female name?

The Goddess has been know throughout the world in different languages and cultures by different names. Nonetheless, She was still the same Goddess. In Sumer, which has some of the oldest written records of the sacred rituals, she was called Inanna. The same name, written with the same cuneiform (wedged writings) is pronounced Ishtar in the Assyrian and Babylonian languages. She was Astarte in Phoenicia, while the Bible refers to her as Ashtoreth. In Greece She was Aphrodite and in Rome, Venue. Although the Goddess was known by many names, these were different attributes of her character, and more correctly, the title of Her Priesthood. Many of Her names, such as Ishtar and Astarte mean, "The Star", which refers to both Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens, and to the planet Venus, which is also known as the Evening and Morning Star.

In Egypt, where our religion has its most ancient roots, most people would know Her as the Goddess, Isis or Hathor. Those are, however, Greek pronunciations. The Egyptian name, Aset, became Isis in Greek, while the Egyptian name, HtHru became Hathor. But these too were not names of actual Goddesses, but rather the title of Her Priesthood for women.

It was the Priesthood and its sacred sexual rituals that distinguished the Goddess religion from other forms of female worship. In the temples of The Goddess priestesses would perform sexual rituals for the purification of men and the fertility of the land. I have performed the same sexual rituals, which involve oral sex and vaginal intercourse, with thousands of men. The rituals are performed as they were anciently by the priestesses of Isis. As I stated, Isis, is a title – a short title for, "The Priesthood of the Order of The Most High Goddess after the Order of the Mother of the Earth's seat of Power." In Egyptian this was shortened to Mut Aset, meaning, "mother of the earth", or "mother of the seat of power", which was further shortened (by dropping Mut) to just "Aset", which under the Greek influence became, Isis. The Greek Temples of ISIS, were not the same as the Egyptian temples, but they were so close that the casual observer could not distinguish them.

Mut was the first woman on earth to whom the priesthood was given by the Most High Goddess. She was, thus, the Mother of Mankind and Mother of the Priesthood. Her daughter was given the name and title, "Aset", which became Isis. Hathor, or HtHru, means literally, "The house of the Light of God". The "House" refers to the blood line of the house of the Pharaohs. To understand why Aset and HtHru were considered Goddesses by the Egyptians, you must understand the theology of the religion and how the Egyptians looked at time.

Christians and Jews will mouth those words, "Man was made in the image and likeness of God", then turn right around and say that God is a bodiless, spirit that fills the universe and yet is so small he can dwell in your heart. I don't know of any man that looks like that. They also refer to their god as being a "living god". But "life" is the union of a spirit and body, or as atheists would have it, the animation of the body - a body that has movement, i.e. blood circulation, respiration etc. We have all heard of spirits of dead people who haunt houses. When the spirit leaves the body the body is dead. The spirit continues to exist, but it does not live. A god, which is only a spirit, does not live either – if it existed at all it would be as a dead god. Jews and Christians have confused existence with life. They have to. The doctrines of their religion are refuted by a living god. Yet the concept of a living god was understood by the early Christians who were quite clear in their understanding of their resurrection.

We can only imagine how ridiculous the Christians would have appeared if they had gone to the Jewish leaders after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth and said, "Jesus has risen". Then everyone would rush to the tomb and find his body still there. "Well his body is still in the grave, but his spirit has risen?" That would have ended Christianity right then and there. Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected with the same physical body he had during his life. Yet their god is without a body.

The Christians so called New Testament illustrates what the early Christians believed about the resurrection. Luke 24:29, speaks of the time when Jesus is claimed to have appeared to his disciples after the resurrection. Jesus is quoted as saying, "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have." He then took some fish and a honeycomb and ate them. His disciples even touched him and felt the print of the nails in his hands and the hole from the Roman spear in his side. Obviously Jesus had a physical body. Later Paul would write to the Romans that "Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him." (Romans 6:9)

It took Christianity another 300 years before Jesus would die again. In 325 A.D. christianity was confronted with the contradiction of the Jewish belief in only one god and the obvious three gods of the trinity, God the father, the son – Jesus Christ – and a Holy Ghost. After all how can you claim to worship only one god when there is a father, son and holy ghost? Christianity changed the nature of their polytheistic god to one god. They removed his resurrected body – the one their bible said he had – and the Christian god who could die no more, was dead – yet he somehow lived without a body – another mystery of a god, which men can not comprehend. Mysteries aside, either Jesus was resurrected with a living body, or he was not.