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The goddesses and gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 BC: myths and cult images

by  Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas

Table Of Contents

  • Cultural background
  • The designation civilization of old europe and its significance
  • Regional and chronological subdivisions of old europe
  • The aegean and central balkan area
  • The adriatic area
  • The middle danube basin
  • The east balkan area
  • The moldavian-west ukrainian area
  • Shematicism
  • Shorthand
  • The neolithic artist's reality - not a physical reality
  • The trend towards more naturalistic sculpture in the chalcolithic era
  • Ritual costume
  • Decorative motifs on clay figurines as a reflection of costume and ornaments
  • Hip-belts
  • Dresses
  • Men's costume
  • Footwear
  • Coiffure and caps
  • Summing-up
  • The mask
  • Non-human visage
  • The vinca mask
  • Evolution of the vinca mask
  • Decoration and perforations for attachment
  • Parallels in crete and ancient greece, and the theatrical emphasis
  • Shrines and the role of figurines
  • Clay models of shrines
  • Remains of sanctuaries and sacrificial places
  • Parallels with minoan-mycenaean shrines
  • Shrine equipment and objects related to cult practices
  • Votive offerings. inscribed figurines, vessels, spindle-whorls, and other objects
  • summing-up
  • Cosmogonical and cosmological images
  • The four corners of the world, the moon and the bull
  • The snake
  • The primordial egg
  • The fish
  • Mistresses of waters: the bird and snake goddess
  • The invocation of rain, the bear and the ideograms of the bird goddess
  • The meander, symbol of cosmic waters
  • The origin of the bird goddess and her image during the neolithic
  • The lady bird and the lady snake of the chalcolithic era
  • The snake and bird goddess as nurse
  • Recapitulation
  • The bird goddess and snake goddess in minoan crete and in ancient greece
  • The great goddess of life, death and regeneration
  • The androgynous and corpulent goddess with folded arms of the neolithic period
  • The chrysalid goddess with folded arms of the chalcolithic period
  • The magical source of life within the goddess: her mouth, hands and eggs
  • The epiphanies
  • The dogs, a double of the moon goddess
  • The doe, a double of the goddess of regeneration
  • The toad and the turtle: the goddess in the shape of a human foetus
  • The hedgehog: the goddess in the shape of an animal uteruw or foetus
  • The bee and the butterfly: the bull-born goddess of transformation and regeneration
  • The bear: the goddess and mother and nurse
  • Recapitulation of various aspects of the prehistoric great goodess
  • Hekate and artemis: survival of the old european great goddess in ancient greece and western anatolia
  • The pregnant vegetation goddess
  • The dot (seed) and the lozenge (sown field)
  • The enthroned pregnant goddess
  • The pig, the sacred animal of the goddess of vegetation
  • Allusions to demeter, kore and persephone in greek mythology
  • The year-god
  • The phallus
  • The ithyphallic masked god
  • The bull with a human mask
  • Allusions to dionysus
  • The sorrowful god
  • The divine child

Subject

Antiquities / Religion, Prehistoric / Goddesses / Prehistoric peoples / Europe

Details

Published London : Thames and Hudson, 2007,
Language English
Material 304 p.
ISBN 0500272387
Location
GN 803 G491 2007 C.1
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack
GN 803 G491 2007 C.2
TCDC Khon Kaen - General Collection

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