ABSTRACT
Gnostic creation myths of the early Christian era were still telling versions in which the female principle was pre-eminent, which is why they were declared uncanonical. “In his madness,” Jehovah claimed to be the only God, because he had forgotten the mother who brought him into being, according to one source. The Mother of Gods was angry that he had impiously sinned against her, and against her other children, the male and female Immortal Ones. These were the elohim of the Book of Genesis. God grouped himself with them, calling the group “us” (Genesis 3: 22). But Bible revisions tended to erase earlier deities, especially female ones. After the centuries of choosing and revising canonical books, nearly every trace of female divinity had been eliminated from Christian literature.
