Religious feeling found its original expression in idols depicting a woman, and not in hunting fetishes of men. How did it happen that it was women who had a religious feeling, a need to venerate a higher being? Such veneration presupposes devotion, commitment, rejection of oneself, submission... The book is dedicated to the life of women in ancient Sumer, Babylonia, Egypt, Asia Minor, ancient Greece, Rome. Chronological range - from the Neolithic revolution to the establishment of Christianity.