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Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book
Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book
1990 •
Miriam Robbins Dexter
This book is a source book in two ways. It traces the sources of early historic Indo-European (Greco-Roman, Indic, Iranian, Germanic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slavic, Irish, and Welsh) goddesses and heroines, beginning with Neolithic iconography and continuing through the iconography of Near Eastern goddesses and texts dating from the third through the first millennia BCE. It is found that Neolithic European bird and snake iconography, as well as iconography, functions, and epithets, are given to many Indo-European female figures. The other way in which this is a source book is that the author has translated texts from all of these cultures, so that the reader may have primary sources for all of these female figures.
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Water and Mythology: Water Deities and Creation
Damien Marie AtHope
“Primordial Sea, Cosmic ocean, Primordial Waters, or Celestial River is a mythological motif that represents the world or cosmos enveloped by a vast primordial ocean. Found in many cultures and civilizations, the cosmic ocean exists before the creation of the Earth. From the primordial waters the Earth and the entire cosmos arose. The cosmic ocean represents or embodies chaos. The concept of a watery chaos also underlies the widespread motif of the worldwide flood that took place in early times. The emergence of earth from water and the curbing of the global flood or underground waters are usually presented as a factor in cosmic ordering. In creation myths, it is common for the primordial ocean to be separated into upper and lower bounds of water (i.e. cosmic bodies of water located above the sky or below the earth) by the creation of a solid structure known as a firmament. Some cosmologies depict the world plain as being surrounded by a circular ocean-river, such as Oceanus in Greek cosmology or Raŋhā in Zoroastrian cosmology. The cosmic ocean is also present in the mythology of Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks, Jews, Ancient Indians, Ancient Persians, Sumerians, and Zoroastrians. It plays a prominent role in ancient near eastern, biblical, and other cosmologies.”
Isthmo Colombian Area mainly by Chibchan languages and Seats of Power
Damien Marie AtHope
Isthmo-Colombian Area (portions of Central and South America) mainly by Chibchan languages and Seats of Power I see seating in art and archaeology can often seem to relate to hierarchy: elites, chiefdom/religious figures, or deities. “The oldest known “shaman seats” are small ceramic models from the Valdivia culture in Ecuador that date to about 2500 BCE. Seats and their relations are such a rich source of information. I could do a whole book on just seats, stools, duhos, and thrones. Donald Lathrap thought this modeled spout was an early representation (ca. 2500 BCE) of a shaman wearing a jaguar pelt. You’ll be interested to know that I’m returning to more scholarship on shamanism.” – John Hoopes @KUHoopes (Anthropologist with broad training in the archaeology of pre-Hispanic indigenous cultures in Latin America) “A throne is the seat of state of a potentate or dignitary, especially the seat occupied by a sovereign (or viceroy) on state occasions; or the seat occupied by a pope or bishop on ceremonial occasions. “Throne” in an abstract sense can also refer to the monarchy or the Crown itself, an instance of metonymy, and is also used in many expressions such as “the power behind the throne“. A throne is a symbol of divine and secular rule and the establishment of a throne as a defining sign of the claim to power and authority. It can be with a high backrest and feature heraldic animals or other decorations as adornment and as a sign of power and strength.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne
Joan, Eahr Amelia. Re-Genesis Encyclopedia: Synthesis of the Spiritual Dark– Motherline, Integral Research, Labyrinth Learning, and Eco–Thealogy. Part I. Revised Edition II, 2018. CIIS Library Database. (RGS.)
181. 587-500, Demise of Sumerian and Babylonian Goddesses.pdf
Eahr Joan
Sumeria and Babylon departed from goddess religions as discussed previously in the Babylonian myth of Tiamat and Marduk. Son (God) Marduk killed his mother then smashed her carcass but kept her skin. (BAC: 18.) (See, Killing of Rahabsu, (or Rahab) in Psalm 89: 9-10.) Introducing this entry is the earlier Enuma Elish summary in RGS, Proto Bronze Age Crete.
Mythical Sexual Politics
Sarojini Sahoo
Amanda Laoupi
Previous research has revealed that Sirius and Hephaistos myths and legends were strongly present in Bronze Age Mediterranean communities via an interrelated cultural network amongst various cultures and societies (Laoupi, 2006a & b; Laoupi, 2011). The aim of the present monograph is to deepen this research, enrich it with the latest evidence and cover broader geographical and chronological boundaries. The Sirius, Moon and Venus cults came from the Paleolithic Times amazingly enriched by their “journey” into the human psyche starring at the Cosmos. Especially, Sirius cult was a pivotal cult of the Pelasgian substratum coming from Neolithic and late Paleolithic Times.
