This book will help you to recognize her symbols, learn their meaning and realizes that the goddess lives today. Yet Old European religion and customs remained a strong undercurrent that influenced the development of Western Civilization. As the two cultures fused to form modern European society, women and the goddess were made subservient to males and their warrior gods. The Old Europeans were matriarchal agriculturists who lived without weapons, worshipped the Living Goddess and sanctified life and the earth. That expanded from the Russian steps into homelands of Old Europe and suppressed their culture with force. Her work showed that the Kugan culture was a Proto-Indo-European pastoral patriarchal warrior society that rode horse, built forts, worshipped male warrior gods and weapons. Marija Gimbutas was a professor of archaeology at UCLA and internationally known for her research into ‘Kurgan” and “Old Europe” culture. This book was Marija Gimbutas last work, it a synthesis of her work on the religion of the Living Goddess before and after patriarchal Europe. The book is about the time, when God was worshipped as female in Europe and Asia Minor, between 7000 B.C.-3000 B.C., her violent suppression by male gods and its effects on today’s society.
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