The author of Women's Rituals, Crone and other feminist classics overturns the traditional patriarchal mythology of our culture, replacing it with a Thealogy which honors women and their essential role in society, free of the superstition and demeaning imagery that has been used to justify the domination of men. Scholarly but never academic, Walker balances a scientific understanding of the universe with a celebration of the innate feminine power to bear new life.