The ideas of divine Mother and divine Creator may be studied in a thousand forms; I am now referring rather to the sentiment, to the feeling, than to the philosophical conception.
You may ask, if the idea or sentiment of divinity attaches to woman in the abstract, what about woman in the concrete--individual woman?
Are women individually considered as gods?
Well, that depends on how you define the word god.

The following definition would cover the ground, I think:--"Gods are beings superior to man, capable of assisting or injuring him, and to be placated by sacrifice and prayer." Now according to this definition, I think that the attitude of man towards woman in Western countries might be very well characterized as a sort of worship.

In the upper classes of society, and in the middle classes also, great reverence towards women is exacted.

Men bow down before them, make all kinds of sacrifices to please them, beg for their good will and their assistance.

It does not matter that this sacrifice is not in the shape of incense burning or of temple offerings; nor does it matter that the prayers are of a different kind from those pronounced in churches.