![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Archaeological findings, folklore, and historical texts, including images and texts from ancient Greece and the ancient Near East, are drawn on, and together they produce a coherent, seamless imagery."-Kees Bolle, University of California, Los Angeles "The overall view of 'Old Europe' Marija Gimbutas presents is not only readable but spellbinding. For sure, the ideas of Marija Gimbutas about the 'Old European' civilization are controversial, but they are built on strong arguments and valid bases, which make it indispensable for her dissident colleagues to take heed of her writings."-Edgar Polome, Editor of the "Journal of Indo-European Studies" ![]() ![]() It excellently illustrates the various manifestations of the Goddess in the Minoan world and in ancient Greece, among the Etruscans and the Basques, in Celtic, Germanic, and Baltic religion. "The quintessence of decades of research. ![]()
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