[...] around 4400 BCE, the Age of Patriarchy can be synchronized with the Count along these lines. Since the dawn of that Age, communion with the intelligence of nature, embodied awareness of the Sacred, and reverence for the Divine Feminine, not to mention mortal woman herself, have all declined drastically. With this decline, the human species lost its gender balance, its natural moral disposition to goodness and cooperation, and fell under the spell of patriarchal and theocratic narratives such as the Egyptian and Babylonian fables of divine kingship and, of course, the Old Testament tale of the Chosen People.