Living Goddesses

Name: Living Goddesses
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ISBN: 9780520229150

ISBN-10: 0520229150

ISBN-13: 9780520229150

Edition: 1999

Authors: Marija Gimbutas, Miriam R. Dexter

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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,…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/12/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Editor's Preface


Acknowledgments


Editor's Introduction



Religion in Prepatriarchal Europe



Images of Goddesses and Gods



Symbols, Signs, and Sacred Script



The Tomb and the Womb



Temples



Sacred Stone and Wood Ceremonial Centers



Matrilineal Social Structure as Mirrored in Religion and Myth



The Living Goddesses



The Minoan Religion in Crete



The Greek Religion



The Etruscan Religion



The Basque Religion



The Celtic Religion



The Germanic Religion



The Baltic Religion


Editor's Afterword


Editor's Notes


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index