Europe's most renowned researcher of matriarchal studies, Heide Göttner-Abendroth, summarizes her landscape mythological research in Switzerland, Germany, South Tyrol, and Austria in this book. These studies have emerged from her extensive field research in these areas. The material relics of early matriarchal cultural periods are analyzed and related to these landscapes. The author develops the method of "spiritual archaeology," which interconnects insights from archaeology and geography with those from mythology, folklore, and linguistic research. The foundation is a detailed examination of various mountain forms and their surroundings, viewed through the symbolic lens of early matriarchal cultures. This opens up entirely new insights into very familiar subjects.