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 her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed through her tireless research in the field and in local texts and mythologies 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 Gimbutas studies combining the memorable findings of her earlier work with new discoveries, insights, and analysis."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1999
History
xx, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780520213937, 9780520229150, 0520213939, 0520229150
40135270
PART I: 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
PART II: 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