The First God Was Woman: How Patriarchy Buried the Divine Feminine

The First God Was Woman is a bold, thought provoking exploration of how the feminine sacred was pushed to the margins of history, religion, and collective memory.
In Book Three of the Matriarch Emerges series, M.K. Spryte goes deeper than doctrine and asks a more dangerous question: before patriarchal systems crowned the father, what did humanity understand about the womb, the motherline, and the female body as sacred origin?
Blending anthropology, memoir, spiritual reflection, cultural criticism, and independent scholarship, this book examines ancient goddess traditions, matrilineal memory, the politics of religion, and the long erasure of female divinity from dominant sacred narratives. It challenges the assumption that male God language is natural, eternal, or neutral, and instead argues that it was constructed, protected, and repeated through systems of power.
This is not a shallow attack on faith. It is a serious excavation of what was buried.
Inside this book, readers will explore:
- the womb as humanity's first experience of creation
- ancient goddess traditions and the memory of female sacred power
- the rise of patriarchy as both social order and theology
- how language, translation, and religious institutions shaped belief
- why reclaiming the feminine divine matters for women, men, and the future of human balance
Written in a voice that is personal, intelligent, fierce, and accessible, The First God Was Woman speaks to readers who are questioning inherited religion, reexamining history, recovering from spiritual harm, or searching for a deeper sacred truth beyond patriarchal control.
For readers of goddess studies, women's spirituality, cultural criticism, sacred history, and feminist theology, this book offers both challenge and restoration.
M.K. Spryte is the author of Why the Matriarch Was Silenced and The Truth About Mary and Yahshuah, continuing her mission to restore balance, memory, and truth through the Matriarch Emerges series.