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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... images - masks , wall paintings , and statuettes symbolizing death in fantastic and sometimes also humorous forms - would also be designed to impart to the religious initiate a sense of mystical unity with both the dangerous as well as ...
... images - masks , wall paintings , and statuettes symbolizing death in fantastic and sometimes also humorous forms - would also be designed to impart to the religious initiate a sense of mystical unity with both the dangerous as well as ...
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... images of our Goddess - worshiping Neolithic forebears " lin- gered in the substratum which nourished further European cultural developments , " enormously enriching the European psyche.1 16 Indeed , if we look closely at the art of the ...
... images of our Goddess - worshiping Neolithic forebears " lin- gered in the substratum which nourished further European cultural developments , " enormously enriching the European psyche.1 16 Indeed , if we look closely at the art of the ...
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... images " in which the god is represented by his weapons alone , or by weapons in combination with a belt , necklace , double - spiral pendant , and the di- vine animal - a horse or stag . In several of the compositions a sun or stag ...
... images " in which the god is represented by his weapons alone , or by weapons in combination with a belt , necklace , double - spiral pendant , and the di- vine animal - a horse or stag . In several of the compositions a sun or stag ...
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