The monograph explores the place of women in family and calendar rituals within the general framework of the structuring of the traditional cultural space of male and female and in the resulting relations between men and women. Answers are sought to quite logical questions: Should we accept the categorical rejection of any role of women in the long-term development of humanity, which would hardly be realistic? What lies behind the complete denial of women in terms of values? Can this denial really be so complete and categorical, and whether and to what extent is it convincing? Questions are argued, the answers to which are diverse – about the main mediatory role of women in both calendar and family rituals; about her role as a biological and intellectual continuer of the genus, as a mediator between the world of the living and the world of the dead; about the function of the esoteric in female initiation, about the specificity of the semantics and mechanism of female initiation. Of interest are the biblical interpretations of the role of women in the conclusions from the comprehensive analysis of the two anthropogonic biblical myths as symmetrical and inverse to each other, canonizing in Christian culture the subordinate position of women. An undoubted contribution is the publication of the archive of the Elisaveta and Hristo Karaminkovi family - a rich array of words between the two spouses and other members of both families, providing in itself rich material for scientific research. The epistolary communication between an alert, educated and struggling to be, as far as circumstances allow her, spiritually emancipated woman and her husband, also representative of his time, "dominating" his wife, a man, is intriguing. The analysis of the letters, compared with the official materials of the era, allow us to trace the mechanism of social and everyday female initiation in more recent times. The existing tension between norm and reality, between etiquette and what is behind it, crystallizes.