Happy Mother’s Day! This inaugural episode of Mothers and Others features our archaeologist friend Laura as we discuss what actual material history has to say about the ultimate primordial mom: our long lost mother goddesses.
Topics Touched:
mother goddesses, maiden mother crone, neopagans, feminist archaeology, wicca phases, neoclassicism, the stone age, vikings, warrior princess skeletons, bioessentialism, birthing hips, TERFs, tumblr feminism, little feets, fat people have always existed, neanderthals, the paleo diet
Works Cited:
- Margot Adler – Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
- Margaret W. Conkey and Janet D. Spector – Archaeology and the Study of Gender
- Marija Gimbutas – The Language of the Goddess
- The Venus of Willendorf
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