There is a growing women’s spirituality movement concerned with the way of the Goddess, the way of natural law and natural wisdom, which is still a living tradition in some parts of the world. This movement acknowledges the sacred dimension of women’s experience and empowers women to transform their lives. Women’s spirituality sees humanity as part of the whole, part of the cosmos and part of nature.

Modern women, such as Merlin Stone, author of When God Was a Woman (1976), Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess (1990), and Mary Condren, author of The Serpent and the Goddess, Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland (1989), and many others, challenge and no longer accept the subordinate role dealt them by mainstream religions. The serpent was the symbol associated with Goddess worship. In his mammoth work, The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell tells us of the role of the serpent in the mythologies of ancient worlds.
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