Category archives: Research

From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – GODDESS MYTH – Origins: Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 A long time ago, perhaps 20.000 years or more, the image of a goddess appeared in a vast territory extending from the Pyrenees to Lake Baikal in…

The Goddess as bird From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 The bird that emerges from a distant sky has always been a messenger of wonder, the visible embodiment of invisible world. In many myths…

The cave, womb of the Mother Goddess From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 A little over a hundred years ago, no one suspected that there was human life, at the a time when woolly mammoths grazed…

Taken from: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 The first question that arises when analyzing Paleolithic art is why the Mother Goddess was only sculpted, and never painted , on cave walls, and…

by Kristina Berggren In 1934, it fell to a farmer working on his land just outside the town of Capestrano to find a large statue. The front was badly worn, but the back was in perfect condition. It was broken below the knees but the base with the legs…

by Brunella Campea The presence of finds of Phoenician, Cypriot and Syriac origin in the Peligna Valley demonstrates that, although enclosed by high mountains, it was open to the currents of the various civilizations of the pre-Roman era (or, to quote Momolina Marconi, of that great Pelasgian or Mediterranean civilization) by direct immigration following…

by Francesca Principi The spiritual world of our most ancient predecessors is one of the most debated topics in the field of prehistoric studies: the sense of the sacred is a theme with elusive outlines and the difficulties increase if prehistory is taken into consideration, a period where we have…

by Alessandra de Nardis Some time ago an article by Dr. Izzy Wisher, researcher at the Archeology department of Durham University in the United Kingdom, appeared on the web dissemination channels. The article deals with an interesting find that occurred in Saint-Germain-La-Rivière in southwestern France where a burial was found…

by Maria Laura Leone In dealing with funerary spirituality, we touch upon the concept of the afterlife, the most distant world that man has ever attempted to ideally elaborate and explore. Thus, in the different approaches to death, we constantly encounter the concern for existence, the desire for permanence, continuity, the preservation of the body…

by Sarah Perini Based on Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin Circe Circe portrayed on a Greek vase, kept in Taranto, Museo Nazionale La Marconi acknowledges in the figure of Circe and in…