Merlin Stone

Merlin Stone, born Marilyn Jacobson (1931-2011), was an American scholar and visionary whose work profoundly illuminated the ancient roots of feminine divinity. A pivotal voice in the burgeoning feminist theology and Goddess movements, Stone courageously challenged patriarchal interpretations of religious history. Her seminal work, *When God Was a Woman*, meticulously reconstructs a lost era where the divine was primarily understood as feminine, drawing upon archaeological evidence and forgotten…