The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization

Description: Bringing together archaeological evidence, comparative mythology and folklore, and symbolic interpretations, Gimbutas's work asserts the existence in prehistoric Europe of a widespread culture centered on the Goddess, lifegiver and sustainer, as well as death-wielder. Through the examination of hundreds of Paleolithic and mostly Neolithic pieces, the author traces cross-cultural and cross-chronological symbolic parallels, some of which are quite broad and open to several types of inference. The central and venerated position of women in the unconscious of early European people seems probable; this order of things changed with th ... (more)

Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Release date: 26 February 2001
ISBN-10 : 0500282498 | ISBN-13: 9780500282496

Tags: Archetypes (1), Spirit (1), Mythology/folklore (1), Goddesses (1), Divine Feminine (1)

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