This episode traces misogyny back to its origins and then on through western religions and cultures. Ancient Egyptian deities represent natural and social phenomena, as well as abstract concepts. The beliefs and rituals surrounding these gods formed the core of ancient Egyptian religion, which emerged sometime in prehistory. These gods and goddesses appear in virtually every aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization, and more than 1,500 of them are known by name. Maʽat refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Ma'at was the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and of the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation. The earliest surviving written reference to Ma’at was in the texts found in the Pyramid of Unas, dated to two thousand three hundred seventy-five BC, however it is certain that belief in her, and the principles which she embodied, went back into prehistory. Ma’at, it should be noted, was not a “fertility goddess” or a “mother goddess.” Instead she the feminine principle of truth, balance, order, harmony law, morality and justice. To put it another way, for the Egyptians these were feminine principles. Randolph Pitts holds Summa Cum Laude degrees in Social Psychology and Egyptology from the University of California Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law from UCLA. He has also done advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationships dynamics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of Philosophy. He is also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Randolph has been a top executive at several entertainment companies, including a ten year stint as Chief Executive Officer of the company that produced Leaving Las Vegas for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award as best actor. The first volume of his eagerly anticipated tetralogy of novels will be published during 2022. Pitts' spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between philosophy, psychology and history. He is the founder and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world. Musical Excerpts: Sonate pour Anita, Der Schatten eines Traumes

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