The idea that there was a prehistoric dominant goddess belief system in Europe fits some ideologies better than it fits any existing evidence. Proponents point to artifacts retrieved with archaeology and to goddesses in male-dominant pantheons from the ancient world. The meaning of the artifacts is by no means clear, and the deduction based on ancient mythologies is a reach lacking proof.

For those who imagine/construct the ancient goddess religion and its imagined associated matriarchal societies, the only way to account for the total absence of documentation of the religion in the written record is to assume that something had obliterated it before the invention of writing. For some, it is easy to imagine that "the rise of writing" was somehow a factor in the imagined decline of a goddess cult. That, however, is backward thinking built on a faulty premise that there ever was a dominant goddess cult: 1. a goddess cult existed (faulty premise); 2. we have no written record of a goddess cult; therefore 3. the goddess cult declined before writing and/or perhaps because of writing. The flaw in the logic is in the premise - #1.