Did Europe devolve from indigenous ways?

What happened to Indigenous Europeans?

Figurine of West's Mother Goddess

(Claudia Ayuso) Oct. 30, 2025: There’s an unknown chapter of European history that’s no longer told in our books. [The gatekeepers removed it so that no one would know.]

Research suggests that thousands of years ago [in prehistory] — long before recorded history — the Indigenous peoples of Europe built unique, rich cultures. But then something changed — dramatically. Out of that shift emerged the Europe we know today: patriarchy, biblical genocide, violence, sexism, empires, kings, and bloody conquest — a legacy of settler colonialism that shaped today's world.

So what happened? Have traces of that earlier world survived?

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  Matrilineal
• Neolithic (Stone Age)
• The Neolithic Revolution
• Neolithic in the Near East
• Sudden arrival of people from the Steppes
• Sacred Earth-based spirituality
• Veneration for Nature
• Sexual equality
• Settled agriculture
• Males married out.

God's wife, beloved Asherah

Does anyone remember the Western God's wife? And by "God" is meant the Judeo-Christian "God" of the Bible: Her name was the Western Goddess Asherah.

Marija Gimbutas or Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė (1921–1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe. More

Special thanks to: Sylvia Linsteadt, Kristian Kristiansen, Iosif Lazaridis.

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• Claudia Ayuso, Oct. 28, 2025; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly