The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas

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. Marija Gimbutas was a Lithuanian-American archeologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of Old Europe, a term she introduced. 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. A panoramic survey of the Neolithic culture of Europe before the Indo-Europeans. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years. Presents evidence for the existence of an agrarian earth goddess- worshiping civilization in Old Europe that was destroyed by horse-riding, patriarchal, sky-god-worshiping warriors from the east. She maintained a lifelong interest in the culture and customs of her homeland. shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. The Civilization of the Goddess Marija Gimbutas was born in 1921, in Vilnius the capital city of Lithuania, situated in the southeast of the country.

Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original-and originally shocking-interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Books by Marija Gimbutas The Living Goddesses 9780520229150 University of California. The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe 3 likes Like The sophisticated, complex art surrounding the Neolithic goddess is a shifting kaleidoscope of meaning: she personified every phase of life, death and regeneration.

The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas