Post AT93IZjRIpvWqMphdQ by kernowbear@mastodon.scot
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 (DIR) Post #AT92697eJK8kt1fN9E by GayDeceiver@mstdn.social
       2023-02-28T17:09:36Z
       
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       Did you know that prehistoric Europe, before encountering Middle Eastern cultures, was a matriarchal society that worshipped goddesses and followed the female leadership model?
       
 (DIR) Post #AT935nFxhvkt1awyjQ by gnomic_heresy@kolektiva.social
       2023-02-28T17:20:43Z
       
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       @GayDeceiver I know as an anthropologist that that is a radical oversimplification, and putting the end of "goddess culture" down to encountering "middle eastern cultures" ignores the large number of middle eastern goddess-worshipping matriarchies.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT93IZjRIpvWqMphdQ by kernowbear@mastodon.scot
       2023-02-28T17:23:02Z
       
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       @GayDeceiver: You have us Celts to thank for that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT93vpPkvgQEmALLsW by GayDeceiver@mstdn.social
       2023-02-28T17:30:09Z
       
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       @gnomic_heresy you are right. I made one change. I hope to helps.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT94iNC0e5upRB3sLQ by gnomic_heresy@kolektiva.social
       2023-02-28T17:38:53Z
       
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       @GayDeceiver Some. It still states that Europe was all one society, which was neither true nor feasible. I suspect you're basing this on Marija Gimbutas, who had a lot of great stuff to say about the ways male-dominated anthropology swept evidence of veneration of women under the rug, but whose conclusions about a single pan-European goddess culture were based on fairly tenuous interpretations of the evidence. There's some great updates to feminist archaeology theory in "In Search of God the Mother" by Lynn Roller, which focuses on Cybele, and has some good info on the Gallae and the history of goddess worship in Anatolian Phrygia.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT96SxMkaQXmtxrViq by gnomic_heresy@kolektiva.social
       2023-02-28T17:41:25Z
       
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       @GayDeceiver Sorry if this is coming off as a lot of pedantry. There is an undercurrent of Eurocentrism in the story of the pan-European goddess culture that rubs me the wrong way, as a trans Earth-venerating Jew.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT96fky3zgZsDKQ0Tg by GayDeceiver@mstdn.social
       2023-02-28T18:00:51Z
       
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       @gnomic_heresy I’ll have to read it. I was still operating from the original theory I heard many moons ago … and attended a class about. Even the Wiccan girls had a bit of a hard time swallowing the whole “pan-European mother goddess culture” from the prof after a while. She was a true believer and a zealot. I did learn a lot of good things in spite of the bias.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT96k4wDgeLNJDcJoO by GayDeceiver@mstdn.social
       2023-02-28T18:01:38Z
       
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       @gnomic_heresy no worries. This is your wheelhouse. Thank you for expanding my knowledge. It is always welcomed.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT98XAjd1T07QohWTo by sofiav@mastodon.online
       2023-02-28T18:06:09Z
       
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       @gnomic_heresy @GayDeceiver yeah, this is sort of fertile ground for the intersection of neopaganism with TERFs and Nazis, right? Three groups that already overlap a lot more than most people realize...
       
 (DIR) Post #AT9DITbX5GPdNgj5Hs by gnomic_heresy@kolektiva.social
       2023-02-28T18:39:24Z
       
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       @sofiav @GayDeceiver Sadly, yeah. We've seen that in the neopagan community before. (I say we because I used to identify as part of that community; I'm not so much anymore.)