Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0520253981
Originally published under the title: God and goddesses of Old Europe, 7000-3500 B.C.
Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520019959
Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2001-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520229150
Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.
Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520253988
Originally published under the title: God and goddesses of Old Europe, 7000-3500 B.C.
Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : 9780500014806
The goddess is the most potent and persistent feature in the archaeological records of the ancient world. In this volume the author resurrects the world of goddess-worshipping, earth-centred cultures, bringing ancient matriarchal society to life.
Author : Lucy Goodison
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :
The nurturing Earth Goddess, the Great Mother worshipped at the dawn of civilization—historical fact or consoling fiction? While Goddess mythologies proliferate and the public devours books by artists, psychotherapists, and enthusiastic amateurs, it is remarkable that those in the field of prehistory have remained largely silent. Did Goddess worship really exist? What actually remains from the earliest cultures, and what can it tell us? What can we learn about the early stages of human religion from the study of prehistoric carvings, pictures, pottery, figurines, and temples? In Ancient Goddesses, historians and archaeologists write accessibly about this intriguing and controversial topic for the first time. Considering a number of significant early civilizations—Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt; “Old Europe;” Early North West Europe; “Celtic” civilization; the Prehistoric Aegean; Malta; the Ancient Near East; Old Testament Israel; Çatalhöyük; and Archaic Greece—these experts review the most recent evidence so that readers can make up their own minds. Contributors include Ruth Tringham and Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley; Lynn Meskell, New College, Oxford; Fekri Hassan, University College, London; Karel van der Toorn, University of Amsterdam; Joan Westenholz, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem; Elizabeth Shee Twohig, University College, Cork; Caroline Malone, New Hall, Cambridge; Mary Voyatzis, University of Arizona; and Miranda Green, University of Wales College.
Author : Charlene Spretnak
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807013434
For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates the contemporary emergence of a spirituality based on our embeddedness in nature.
Author : Glenys Livingstone
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0595349900
PaGaian Cosmology brings together a religious practice of seasonal ritual based in a contemporary scientific sense of the cosmos and female imagery for the Sacred. The author situates this original synthesis in her context of being female and white European transplanted to the Southern Hemisphere. Her sense of alienation from her place, which is personal, cultural and cosmic, fires a cosmology that re-stories Goddess metaphor of Virgin-Mother-Crone as a pattern of Creativity, which unfolds the cosmos, manifests in Earth's life, and may be known intimately. PaGaian Cosmology is an ecospirituality grounded in indigenous Western religious celebration of the Earth-Sun annual cycle. By linking to story of the unfolding universe this practice can be deepened, and a sense of the Triple Goddess-central to the cycle and known in ancient cultures-developed as a dynamic innate to all being. The ritual scripts and the process of ritual events presented here, may be a journey into self-knowledge through personal, communal and ecological story: the self to be known is one that is integral with place. PaGaian Cosmology may be used as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within.
Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Celts
ISBN : 9780719025792
Author : Collin Cornell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1646020936
The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him—but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH’s ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about this challenge. Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual human charges. They spoke and acted. They experienced wrath and delight. They inspired praise. All of this leaves Jews and Christians in a bind: how can they confess that the God named YHWH was (and is) the true and living God, in view of this God’s profound similarities to all these others? The essays in this volume address the theological challenge these parallels create, providing reflections on how Jews and Christians can keep faith in YHWH as God while acknowledging the reality of YHWH’s divine doppelgängers. It will be welcomed by undergraduates studying religion; seminarians and graduate students of Bible, theology, and the ancient world; and adult education classes.
