"Male writers through the centuries broke the goddess figure down into innumerable 'goddesses,' using different titles or names she received from different peoples at different times. . . . During the Middle Ages, most of the old names and titles of male deities were amalgamated as 'secret names' of the one God, while the names and titles of the Goddess were ever more minutely classified, and some were even masculinized, humanized, or diabolized. . . ." Barbara Walker The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets