Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GS.OFT Gimbutas / College 3b - Englisch / Regal 315	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 05.12.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

In ihrem bahnbrechenden Werk entwirft die Prähistorikerin Marija Gimbutas ein faszinierendes Panorama von der Welt der Großen Muttergottheit, die die Vorstellung der matriarchalisch organisierten frühen Ackerbaukulturen beherrschte. Gimbutas bezieht in ihre Darstellung Ergebnisse der vergleichenden Religionswissenschaft, die Aussagen von antiken Mythen und Schriftquellen sowie linguistische, ethnologische und volkskundliche Untersuchungen mit ein. Nahezu 2000 Abbildungen von Skulpturen, Tempelmodellen, Fresken, Vasen und anderen Objekten machen den Band zu einem faszinierenden Führer in eine längst vergangene Epoche der Menschheitsgeschichte.The Goddess is the most potent and persistent feature in the archaeological records of the ancient world. She was a symbol of the unity of life in nature, and the personification of all that was sacred and mysterious on Earth. Here, in this pioneering and provocative volume, Marija Gimbutas resurrects the world of Goddess-worshipping, earth-centred cultures, bringing ancient matriarchal society vividly to life. She interweaves comparative mythology, early historical sources, linguistics, ethnography and folklore to demonstrate conclusively that Goddess-worship is at the root of Western civilization. Illustrated with nearly 2000 symbolic artifacts - sculptures, figurines, temple models, frescos, vases, sacrificial containers - Gimbutas' magnum opus is at once a 'pictorial script' of the prehistoric Goddess religion and an authoritative work that takes these ancient cultures from the realm of speculation into that of documented fact. "Bringing together archaeological evidence, comparative mythology and folklore, and symbolic interpretations, Gimbutas's work asserts the existence in prehistoric Europe of a widespread culture centered on the Goddess, lifegiver and sustainer, as well as death-wielder. Through the examination of hundreds of Paleolithic and mostly Neolithic pieces, the author traces cross-cultural and cross-chronological symbolic parallels, some of which are quite broad and open to several types of inference. The central and venerated position of women in the unconscious of early European people seems probable; this order of things changed with the incursions by Kurgan groups (4300-2800 B.C.) and the European world moved "from matrilineal to patrilineal." Whether or not one agrees with these archaeomythological interpretations, Gimbutas offers a thought-provoking symbolic reading of hundreds of selected pieces, beautifully reproduced in this sizeable compendium." Winnie Lambrecht, Brown Univ., Providence, R.I.