This book, the final book in English of Marija Gimbutas, details the religion of the goddesses of Neolithic Europe: the forms they take, both human and animal.
List of Illustrations
vii
Editor's Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Editor's Introduction
xv
PART I Religion in Prepatriarchal Europe
1
(126)
Images of Goddesses and Gods
3
(40)
Symbols, Signs, and Sacred Script
43
(12)
The Tomb and the Womb
55
(17)
Temples
72
(27)
Sacred Stone and Wood Ceremonial Centers
99
(13)
Matrilineal Social Structure as Mirrored in Religion and Myth
112
(15)
PART II The Living Goddesses
127
(88)
The Minoan Religion in Crete
131
(20)
The Greek Religion
151
(14)
The Etruscan Religion
165
(7)
The Basque Religion
172
(4)
The Celtic Religion
176
(12)
The Germanic Religion
188
(9)
The Baltic Religion
197
(18)
Editor's Afterword
215
(2)
Editor's Notes
217
(14)
Glossary
231
(4)
Selected Bibliography
235
(26)
Index
261
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