© 2014 | UHD 50 min | TV-Documentary
Script: Hansjürgen Schmölzer, Markus Mörth
Directors: Markus Mörth, Hansjürgen Schmölzer
Camera: Stephan Musil
Editor: Oliver Wendlinger
Production: EPO-Film, Mokino Film, Servus-TV
Did monotheism arise purely from political calculation?
Jerusalem: the cradle of monotheism. 2,700 years ago, the political upheavals that led to the triumph of monotheistic belief and the monotheistic world religions took place here. From many local cults, a religion centred on a single temple was formed as a political instrument of power.
Female deities no longer had a place in it. The memories of them were erased, rewritten and absorbed. But their roots have survived to this day.
Tracing this history back, one encounters a multitude of female deities since humans first settled, which themselves derive from far older belief systems. The forms and symbolism of the enigmatic Venus figures of the Palaeolithic periodshow striking similarities to the female deities of early settled cultures. The oldest female figure ever found is more than 40,000 years old. Where did they come from? And where did they go? This film sets out in search of their traces.