We'll see the degeneration of ancient bird and snake goddesses into historic age witches and monsters! Miriam will establish the existence of and meaning of the UNITY of the goddess, for she was unity as well asmultiplicity, multifunctional and an integral whole.
We'll compare archaeological data on prehistoric European bird and snake iconography, and historic mythological data to deomonstrate the broad geographic basis of this iconography and myth, to determine the meaning of the bird and snake and to demonstrate that these female figures inherited the mantle of the Neolithic and Bronze Age European bird and snake goddess. Miriam will touch on the relationship of birds and snakes to ancient goddesses and heroines or the beneficent avatar of the prehistoric goddess, and to witches and monsters the maleificent or, more correctly, the fearsome aspect of the same goddess. Miriam Robbins Dexter, discussing The Frightful Goddess: Birds, Snakes and Witches, a talk she gave recently at a Southern California eco-feminist conference at the Goddess Temple of Orange County/Museum of Woman. 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.Returning to the show after a long absence, I'm happy to back, Dr. 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. Editor Miriam Robbins Dexter has added introductory and concluding remarks, summaries, and annotations. 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. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years.
Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original-and originally shocking-interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars.
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