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Book Synopsis
Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. This text contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new disco veries, insights, and analysis.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction

Part 1 Religion in Prepatriarchal Europe
1 Images of Goddesses and Gods
2 Symbols, Signs, and Sacred Script
3 The Tomb and the Womb
4 Temples
5 Sacred Stone and Wood Ceremonial Centers
6 Matrilineal Social Structure as Mirrored in Religion and Myth

Part 2 The Living Goddesses
7 The Minoan Religion in Crete
8 The Greek Religion
9 The Etruscan Religion
10 The Basque Religion
11 The Celtic Religion
12 The Germanic Religion
13 The Baltic Religion

Editor's Afterword
Editor's Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

The Living Goddesses

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 12 January 2001
      ISBN-13 9780520229150
      978-0520229150
      ISBN-10 0520229150
      Also in:
      Education Archaeology by period / region Religion Nature and existence of God

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. This text contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new disco veries, insights, and analysis.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Editor's Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Editor's Introduction

      Part 1 Religion in Prepatriarchal Europe
      1 Images of Goddesses and Gods
      2 Symbols, Signs, and Sacred Script
      3 The Tomb and the Womb
      4 Temples
      5 Sacred Stone and Wood Ceremonial Centers
      6 Matrilineal Social Structure as Mirrored in Religion and Myth

      Part 2 The Living Goddesses
      7 The Minoan Religion in Crete
      8 The Greek Religion
      9 The Etruscan Religion
      10 The Basque Religion
      11 The Celtic Religion
      12 The Germanic Religion
      13 The Baltic Religion

      Editor's Afterword
      Editor's Notes
      Glossary
      Selected Bibliography
      Index

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