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The historical aspects of this book were very interesting and well developed. The characters were all deep and meaningful. It could have been a believable story of culture and spiritual beliefs, save one important set of details. The altering of the Christian Gospels and creating a story with them that is completely at odds with the true tenets of Christianity. The belief and worship of a Mother/Earth/God goes back to the earliest man. Healing of body and soul have been practiced in her honor since the beginning of man. But the Christian gospels are not based on a MotherGod. They are all about a one and only God the Father, who ultimately sends His only SON to tell men the story of God and His wisdom and goodness and desires for mankind, and for that SON to ultimately sacrifice His life in our place for us mortal men and our failures to live as God the Father intended, and allowing a new chance to live God's way. If this had simply been a book about a sisterhood of that time period and the way they served their Mother/Goddess, it could have been a great story. By including and twisting the Bible story it left me feeling conflicted about continuing to read it at all. I finished reading the book in hopes it would redeem itself. It did not. It was just an attack on true Christianity by someone pushing the concept of gender fluidity. "Blasphemy" is not a word I have ever really used before, but that was what constantly came to mind as I read this book. It could have been a great book, but messing with the Word of God simply does not work. I am sorry I wasted my time. God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth; and Jesus Christ is His only Son, our Lord.