The Sage, the Shaman, The Mage. 

They all mean the same thing,

Yet there is one that sticks out as sounding sinister to our societally conditioned minds, because of a very old smear campaign.

It is hard to ignore the subjugation of the divine feminine within religious and spiritual theology.

Prior to the spread of Christianity there were many cultures and spiritual traditions- which held equal reverence for both the masculine and the feminine poles. 

But more recently- the divine feminine been subjugated,

This is where