Like the way medieval Europe, with images of the Virgin perhaps the most common of any, was dominated religiously and politically by women?
I'm always amazed by the way archeologists can find what they want to fine. For decades they had a complex explanation about the Maya civilization. It was a peaceful society dominated by gentle priests.
Then they deciphered their writing and this beautiful theory was raped and murdered by a gang of brutal facts.
The Maya were actually as violent as any people in history, delighting in public torture and human sacrifice and engaging massive wars sometimes lasting over a century.
Confirmation bias. We are all prone to it.
Reminds me of the PC correct version of the Midwest American Indian tribes...
One with the land, gentle souls, spiritual people, only caught enough food to survive, bah, bah, bah...
The earlier settlers who tried to farm in the Midwest used to go hunting and would leave their wife's a small caliber gun with enough bullets to put one in each of their children heads and than one for themselves...
Suicide was a much better deal than being taken captive by plains Indians. ...
Plains Indians committed horrendous atrocities against settlers...