by Enrica Tedeschi Those who considered her indigenous and autochthonous (Vespasian and Titus Tatius) defined her as daughter of Sabo, mythical king of the Sabines, and granddaughter of Sanco (god of oaths, main male Sabine deity). According to other narratives (Varro and Dionysius of Halicarnassus), the goddess arrived in Italy with the Pelasgians...

From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – GODDESS MYTH – Origins: Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 A long time ago, perhaps 20.000 years or more, the image of a goddess appeared in a vast territory extending from the Pyrenees to Lake Baikal in…

The Goddess as bird From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 The bird that emerges from a distant sky has always been a messenger of wonder, the visible embodiment of invisible world. In many myths…

The cave, womb of the Mother Goddess From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 A little over a hundred years ago, no one suspected that there was human life, at the a time when woolly mammoths grazed…

Taken from: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 The first question that arises when analyzing Paleolithic art is why the Mother Goddess was only sculpted, and never painted , on cave walls, and…

by Sarah Perini Based on Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin Circe Circe portrayed on a Greek vase, kept in Taranto, Museo Nazionale La Marconi acknowledges in the figure of Circe and in…

by Sarah Perini Based on Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin Fortuna Statue of Fortuna italica, found in Trieste, Bosco di Pontini She is the protector of fertility human and parthian, she who…

by Sarah Perini Based on Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin In this speech I will analyze the contribution of an Italian researcher of the last century, unknown to most , but at the forefront of matrifocal studies…

by Elena Fornari Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin In central Italy, in the Tuscany region, a few kilometers from the coast of Versilia, the Apuan Alps rise majestically. This area…

by Adele Campanelli Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin This brief intervention is dedicated to our ancestors, “wise women” and to the ability to Marija Gimbutas to seek and find the…

by Giovanni Feo Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin The traditional mythological icon associated with the city of Rome, the She-Wolf and the Twins, was interpreted according to different points of…