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When God Was a Black Woman: And Why She Isn't Now John M. Carrico believing they are the keyA few years ago I read a book by Merlin Stone called When God Was a Woman, in which she wrote that "in the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman the female deity in the Near and Middle East was revered as Goddess much as people today think of God the original status of the Goddess was as supreme deity the Great Goddess was regarded as immortal, changeless, omnipotent;