The invaders had imposed a «patriarchal / androcratic» system and hybridized the lunar and earth goddesses with the «Indo - European male pantheon of sky gods.» (firstthings.com)
More commonly spelt Gaia, she» s the Greek Earth goddess of the religion of Environmentalism. (drtimball.com)
As Lois Daly has noted, some ecofeminists, while suspicious that such self - expansion perpetuates the patriarchal tendency to reduce others to tools of self - realization, still accept the patriarchal identification of man with controlling reason and transcendent deity, and of woman with physical nature and the immanent earth goddess. (religion-online.org)