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Lost Goddesses
Writing Found
We've just excavated the first amazing words from the last writings of a
renowned archaeologist and reveal them here on goddesses.com for the
first time, quoted exactly as the words were
discovered: “By 4500 BC, the European continent hosted a flourishing group of Goddess worshipping cultures. Over the preceding two millennia, from about 6500 BC to 4500 BC, these cultures had undergone a peaceful evolution, and by the end of this time achieved what could properly be called a Golden Age of Old European civilization. They produced arts and crafts of remarkable quality. Communities achieved populations of many thousands and were laid out in a planned manner. Towns were located at consistently even distances from each other, with larger cities acting as religious and trade centers.” Recovery of these words offer readers a look deep into the prehistory of Europe, further back than it is likely many have pondered. Importantly, these paragraphs reveal the work of a scholar whose assertions are backed up by a lifetime of excavation and analysis. “Metallurgy was practiced in east-central Europe;
artisans produced copper and gold, tools, jewelry and symbols that
display a complete mastery of these media. Old European ceramicists
produced pottery so refined in execution that it would not be matched
for thousands of years. They developed a form of writing which shows the
ability to deal with a high level of abstraction.
“The focus of life for these peoples was religion: the perpetual functioning of the cycle of life, death, and regeneration embodied by a central feminine force – the Goddess. “The tens of thousands of figurines and sculptures, the burial rites, the rich religious symbolism, all attest the ideology of these peoples. The most advanced architecture - two-story buildings - were reserved for temples. Religion pervaded every aspect of life, and even weaving and the baking of bread were included as sacred activities in the temples. “The achievements of these ancient civilizations were attained without the use of force. Nowhere in Old Europe is there evidence of warfare. Heavy fortifications are absent, and settlements are located for their proximity to fields and water sources, not for protection from attack...Evidence of pitched battle and violent invasions is nonexistent. Nowhere are there buried warriors, with limbs hacked off or spearheads embedded in bones, and nowhere are there signs of glorification of war heroes."
Amazing stuff, these six paragraphs of nearly forgotten text. Especially illuminating perhaps, if this is your first look back into a time in Europe that was thousands of years before male dominated Greek civilization. If you are unfamiliar with this information, hold the last paragraph close within your cranium and perhaps ponder from time-to-time the thousands of years during which humans in Europe lived in peace in harmony with Nature. Goddesses.com editors had never before seen this
article when it was discovered, through we had read the complete works of
the author and had met with her one-on-one for an in-depth discussion.
Enough mystery already!
This
clear statement about what was happening during deep European prehistory is the
opening page of
the last article written by famed UCLA archaeologist Marija Gimbutas just
before her death in 1993. It was found in the back of a book, wedged on a high shelf,
in a place that sometimes seems remote during this Internet age, a library.
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