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Title: The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas, Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0-500-28249-8 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gimbutas is great
Comment: This is a truly wonderful book by a now deceased author. Marija Gimbutas was a fine scholar (chair of European Archeology at UCLA), and if she were alive today, would gladly take part in the storm of response that her ideas on prehistoric religion have inspired. All such scholarly theories require work and refinement, and the ideas presented in this book are no exception. There is, however, no other single text on the subject of early human religion that I think is more important. Read it, love it, and give it to all your friends.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ignorance is bliss only when kept to oneself
Comment: Marija Gimbutas and Joseph Campbell are internationally recognized authorities on myth, symbol, and - in her case -archeology. It concerns me that an anonymous reviewer chooses to bash this book without indicating some authority for doing so. I suspect the lack of this authority may account for the anonymity.
Regardless of one's political stance or one's bias regarding gender, this is a high-quality, highly educational book.
It is not easy to read, nor are easy things worth much.
It may offend some persons whose perspectives it challenges - so does, has, and will the Bible, which most of the folks who object to this book are fond of.
Gimbutas and Campbell both color outside the lines of what I tend to identify as the Matrix. It is my deepest desire that they continue.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspirational
Comment: It's been a few years since I read this, but I remember that it sparked a small burst of artistic activity for me. We can argue whether everything in it is factually true, as one reviewer said, we may never really _know_, but Gimbutas' interpretation certainly deserves consideration. It offers a counter-balance to the traditional patriarchal view of prehistory which is just as likely to be biased and wrong. I found Gimbutas' theories on the origin of writing very believable.
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Title: The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas, Miriam Robbins Dexter ISBN: 0520229150 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 12 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 B.C.: Myths, and Cult Images by Marija Gimbutas ISBN: 0520046552 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: When God Was a Woman (Harvest/Hbj Book) by Merlin Stone ISBN: 015696158X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1978 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler ISBN: 0062502891 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Great Cosmic Mother : Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjoo ISBN: 0062507915 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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