Earth Mother to Sky Father

I've spent the fall and winter studying the ancient cultural origins of the proto-Europeans sparsely populating that frozen continent from about 45,000 BCE until roughly the end of the Ice Age (or more accurately, the 13,000 year interstadial we're currently occupying within the larger cycle of Ice Ages), rather arbitrarily choosing 12,000 BCE as the beginning of the great melting which resulted in the birth of the Holocene.

Without going into too much detail, the Venus figurines which are ubiquitous in the portable art found in ancient Ice Age caves seem to have begun appearing over 30,000 years ago and were made for perhaps 15,000 years.  They were found throughout the occupied portion of Ice Age Europe, extending over to what is now the Ukraine.

We don't know for certain what they indicated.  One presumes fertility, but also, it seems to me they indicate a way of relating to life as they knew it, or the Earth itself, upon whose bounty they were dependent for everything in their lives.  There are a few books I'm about to delve into based on the possibility of an ancient goddess culture in paleo-and-mesolithic prehistory.

But what seems apparent is that at some point we altered our relationship with the divine, and somewhere began to worship or attune ourselves to a different form of deity -- male sky gods, or a male sky god in particular.

This video makes a case for the etymological origin of just such a deity, spread throughout the near, middle, and far east.  I'll have more to say about its implications a little further down the road.