© Peter Watson 2017 formed as a result of early ideas of marriage, itself an institution of human agency. Loyalty to specific parents, loyalty to specific offspring, would all have been new elements in the psychology of those times, all contributing to the new sense of agency. As the French archaeologist Jacques Cauvin has said, at this time there was a massive increase in people’s self-confidence. Chapter 11: The Routinization of Life The excavations at the sites listed above show that, in the upper (later) levels, after about 6000 BC, the celebration of male prowess was replaced by an emphasis on female qualities, a wave of ‘Neolithic feminization’. This too fits the general picture portrayed here. Though early peoples would have been rocked by the discovery of fatherhood, this state of affairs – after several generations – would have adjusted. It would have been treated as no more than normal. In such circumstances, it is easy to see that the female role gradually took over in a domestic environment. A psychological male-female way of life would have emerged, perhaps not so different from now. The excavations confirm this. Chapter 12: The Genesis of Genesis At this point, and in conclusion, we may well ask ourselves whether, with all that was happening, more or less at once, and with some of the changes being shocking – even moving – then, like other powerful events in history, would they have been remembered in myth form? There is one piece of evidence – one myth – that suggests there was just such a powerful change in human consciousness. Could it be that this development, this all-important change in mentality, is in fact contained in the very first book of the bible? Is this what the confusing beginning of the bible is all about? Is this why the bible begins as it does? Genesis is known partly for its account of the creation of the world, and of humankind, but also for the otherwise strange episode of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden because they had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil against God’s explicit instructions.