The Living Goddesses

The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original—and originally shocking—interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years. This volume, which was close to completion at the time of her death, contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new discoveries, insights, and analysis. Editor Miriam Robbins Dexter has added introductory and concluding remarks, summaries, and annotations. The first part of the book is an accessible, beautifully illustrated summation of all Gimbutas's earlier work on "Old European" religion, together with her ideas on the roles of males and females in ancient matrilineal cultures. The second part of the book brings her knowledge to bear on what we know of the goddesses today—those who, in many places and in many forms, live on.

History

Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas

Miriam Robbins Dexter

Ancient Civilizations

University of California Press

Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book

Religion & Spirituality

Teachers College Pr

STUDIES IN IRISH SAGA AND CELTIC MYTH; The Hero: Late If Not Last Thoughts-Dean Miller. From Protected to Protector: Some Legal Language in Cú Chulainn's Boyhood Deeds-Colin Ireland. Extraordinary Beings in Chrétien de Troyes and their Celtic Analogs-William Sayers. Láeg's Line: A Route for the Gods?-Richard B. Warner. With One Hand Tied behind his Back: Exploring the Iconography of Single-handed Single Combats-Paula Powers Coe. STUDIES IN NORTHWESTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; Dialect and Language Contact in Emerging Germanic-Benjamin Frey and Joseph Salmons. Taking a Position in Latin-Philip Baldi and Pierluigi Cuzzolin. AEGEAN-ANATOLIAN STUDIES; The Cities of Kumme, Kummanna and their God Tesˇsˇub / Tei sˇeba-Armen Petrosyan. A Preliminary Note on Application of Functional Markings to the Scenes Depicted on the Chest of Kypselos-Chris Lynn. Homeric péploς and Hittite palah˘ sˇa sˇ-Jaan Puhvel. OUT OF ASIA; Hobbyhorses-E.J.W. Barber. Substrate Continuity in Indo-European Religion and Iconography: Seals and Figurines of the Indus Valley-Culture and Historic Indic Female Figures-Miriam Robbins Dexter. The Da¯sas of the R°gveda as Proto-Sakas of the Yaz I-related Cultures-With a revised model for the protohistory of Indo-Iranian speakers-Asko Parpola. The Earliest Identifiable Written Chinese Character-Victor H. Mair. TECHNOLOGY; Some Observations on the Development of Indo-European Metallurgy-Martin E. Huld. Publications of J.P. Mallory.

Archaeology and Language: Indo-European Studies Presented to James P. Mallory (The Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Jaan Puhvel

E.J.W. Barber

Colin Ireland

William Sayers

Richard B. Warner

Paula Powers Coe

Benjamin Frey and Joseph Salmons

Chris Lynn

Armen Petrosyan

Archaeology

The Institute for the Study of Man

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