But, while the power of women was recognized in mythology and rituals, the power of women in agricultural societies was less than those of hunting societies. ... In the Paleolithic period people traveled in groups of twenty to thirty people, who hunted and gathered plants to eat together. ... Deep inside caves in the Paleolithic period people painted extraordinary pictures perhaps for some ritual purpose. ... The stone structures that are found around Europe tell the story of what is most known about that period of time. ... During the Old Kingdom, everything prospered and many great thin...

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Zeus and Hera are at the apex of the Pantheon, followed by Poseidon, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, and others, but as in the Near East when their mythology relates the repossession of female deities by male deities, the same process occurred in Greece at this time. ... The next period is known as the Archaic Age, circa 800-500 b.c.e. ...

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