The story of the Devimahatmya being long before its actual composition. Throughout the Eurasian land-mass as far back as Paleolithic times, woman and men observed the female's awesome capcity to create new life and identified that power with divinity.They left traces of their beliefs in figurines that display the universalphysical attributes of female fertility and montherhoob.These mute but eloquent reminders continued into the Neolithic period, reaching a high state of development in the ancient Near East.