Hortensia de los Santos

The Wound in the World: When the Mothers Were Forgotten

The erasure of the feminine from history was not merely the silencing of women’s voices— it was the shattering of balance. When the image of the divine shifted from Mother Earth to Father God, something tore in the soul of humanity. No longer was creation a womb, a dance, a cycle —but a hierarchy, a command, a conquest. In the world of the Goddess, as Mariya Gimbutas revealed, life was a spiral—birth, death, and rebirth. Earth was alive. Symbols carried power. Women were not only givers of life, but mediators between the seen and unseen. Power was not domination, but flow. But the arrival of peoples from the Eurasian steppes, whose warrior culture and sky-god pantheon replaced the older, Earth-centered traditions of Old Europe created a new mythology: We inherited instead a world where the divine was far away, unreachable,male —and where to be born woman was to begin at a disadvantage. But the spiral never truly ends. The symbols never stopped appearing.

Acknowledgment

I extend my deepest gratitude to the pioneering researchers and authors who have challenged conventional narratives and illuminated the forgotten history of our civilization. The groundbreaking work of Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, John Anthony West, Robert Schoch, and many others has reshaped our understanding of ancient civilizations, pushing the boundaries of accepted timelines and questioning the limitations imposed by mainstream academia.

Without their contributions, the search for lost civilizations and advanced knowledge from antiquity would remain obscured by dogma. To these trailblazers, I offer my profound appreciation and recognition.