Is there really a Primordial Universal Goddess? The Academic historical debate

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Is there historical evidence to support the idea that once, in a matriarchal past, there was one great mother Goddess from whom all the Goddesses stem?

RECOMMENDED READINGS

The Triumph of the Moon by Hutton https://amzn.to/40xErd5

The Scientification of Religion by von Stukrad https://amzn.to/40RTaPQ

the language of the goddess by Marija Gimbutas https://amzn.to/3zks4p5

Myth, Religion, and Mother Right by Bachofen https://amzn.to/40xpU15

The White Goddess by Robert Graves https://amzn.to/3KnNjfO

The Power of Myth by Campbell https://amzn.to/3G9nqOh

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REFERENCES

Brunotte, Ulrike. 2012. “Unveiling Salome 1900—Entschleierungen zwischen Sexualität, Pathosformel und Oriental Dance.” In Verschleierter Orient—Entschleierter Okzident: (Un‐)Sichtbarkeit in Politik, Recht, Kunst und Kultur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, edited by Bettina Dennerlein, Elke Frietsch, and Therese Steffen, 93–116. Paderborn: Fink

Hutton, R. 2019. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft 2 edition. Oxford: OUP Oxford.

von Stuckrad, K. 2014. The Scientification of Religion. Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter.

00:00 Intro: Where did the idea of a Great Goddess originate?

00:50 Evolutionism & ancient matriarchy

01:42 Johann Jakob Bachofen

04:33 Bachofen’s views influences others

08:37 Jane E. Harrison

10:05 Other scholars

12:34 Reaching a broader readership

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Published on April 4, 2023

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