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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... Later on , as the Cretan Goddess Ariadne ( the Very Holy One ) , and the Greek Goddess Aphrodite , she rises from the sea.14 In fact , this image was still so powerful in Christian Europe that it inspired Botti- celli's famous Venus ...
... Later on , as the Cretan Goddess Ariadne ( the Very Holy One ) , and the Greek Goddess Aphrodite , she rises from the sea.14 In fact , this image was still so powerful in Christian Europe that it inspired Botti- celli's famous Venus ...
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... later taken one step further , what is probably the first form of human script evolved . These are ideograms in ... later than the sixth millennium B.C.E. " 55 Through intensive study of symbols and signs first found primarily on figures ...
... later taken one step further , what is probably the first form of human script evolved . These are ideograms in ... later than the sixth millennium B.C.E. " 55 Through intensive study of symbols and signs first found primarily on figures ...
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... later on as the more civilized God of the prophets , there is here only one God : the " jealous " and inscrutable Jehovah , who in later Christian mythol- ogy sends his only divine Son , Jesus Christ , to die and thereby atone for his ...
... later on as the more civilized God of the prophets , there is here only one God : the " jealous " and inscrutable Jehovah , who in later Christian mythol- ogy sends his only divine Son , Jesus Christ , to die and thereby atone for his ...
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