The very first, most ancient religion on earth was the religion of the Great Goddess Mother. Stone Age people arranged lush thankful feasts in honor of female deities, venerated by the ancestors and patrons of the human race. Since the first deities were female goddesses, then female priestesses served them. So it should be. The great goddesses and their priestesses were the living embodiment of the unity of body, mind, and spirit. Female priestesses symbolized the Great Goddess Mother, who gives life to all that exists. A woman was divine because only a woman gives birth to children. In all primitive cultures, the creation of man is associated with Mother Earth. The Aztecs depicted the earth in the form of a woman with a wide chest, the Peruvians called her Mama allpa - the Good Mother, the source of all good.