The “Holy, Not Whore” Series Pt. 3: Who Stole The Womb

Goddess Confessions

Sheneka Adams

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we trace how women’s bodies went from sacred to controlled. Once seen as life bringers and spiritual guides, women were slowly stripped of power through systems that feared their influence. This is about the moment balance broke — and what it’s cost us.

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0:34.0	Hey, it's your girl simply Shanika, and you are now listening to The Goddess Confessions.
0:45.3	The backlash against powerful women didn't begin with witches, and it didn't always look like
0:57.4	violence at first. Women who carried knowledge, herbalists, midwives, and spiritual healers, many of whom
1:06.2	had passed down wisdom for generations, became targets. Between the 15th and 18th centuries,
1:12.6	tens of thousands of women were tortured and killed
1:16.6	during the European witch hunts.
1:18.6	In some regions, the numbers reach into the hundreds of thousands.
1:23.6	The term witch became shorthand for any woman who couldn't be controlled.
1:28.3	But in the earliest human civilizations, women were not seen as secondary.
1:33.3	They held roles in leadership, land ownership, healing, and spirituality.
1:40.3	Life was understood to begin in the body of a woman, and that wasn't up for debate.
1:45.6	It was honored.
1:47.0	But something shifted when domination became the goal.
1:51.1	Societies that once prioritized cooperation and balance began to favor hierarchy and control.
1:58.3	Masculinity was elevated, not as a complement to the feminine, but as its replacement.
2:04.8	Religion became the most effective tool for spreading these ideas, not because religion itself was
2:11.6	harmful, but because it was reshaped to serve political and patriarchal goals. In 325 CE under Emperor Constantine,
2:22.3	the Council of Nicaea was called to standardize Christianity across the Roman Empire.
2:28.3	What had once been a wide range of spiritual traditions was narrowed into a single male-dominated structure,
2:36.0	and anything that challenged that, including feminine wisdom, was pushed underground,
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