The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85). |
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... appear , in response to the will to live here and hereafter . " 2 This sacred tradition found expression in the ... appears to have been a central religious theme . Both the ritualized placement of the vagina- shaped cowrie shells ...
... appear , in response to the will to live here and hereafter . " 2 This sacred tradition found expression in the ... appears to have been a central religious theme . Both the ritualized placement of the vagina- shaped cowrie shells ...
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... appears to have been the single most prominent and important feature of life . In the Ana- tolian site of Catal Huyuk the worship of the Goddess appears to per- meate all aspects of life . For example , out of 139 rooms excavated be ...
... appears to have been the single most prominent and important feature of life . In the Ana- tolian site of Catal Huyuk the worship of the Goddess appears to per- meate all aspects of life . For example , out of 139 rooms excavated be ...
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... appear to be — a rudimentary form of linear script - the or- igins of writing are much more ancient than was formerly ... appears to have been an outgrowth of the earlier tradition of using art as a kind of visual shorthand to commu ...
... appear to be — a rudimentary form of linear script - the or- igins of writing are much more ancient than was formerly ... appears to have been an outgrowth of the earlier tradition of using art as a kind of visual shorthand to commu ...
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