In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped CivilizationHere, for the first time, an author weaves together threads that explain the mysterious disappearance of ancient cultures in which women and the environment were at the center, a loss that has dramatically influenced 3,500 years of Western history. |
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Contents
Minoan Artifacts Challenge the Inevitability of Patriarchy | 9 |
An Expectation of Rebirth or Immortality | 23 |
Time as a Circle Rather Than a Line | 33 |
The Troubling Question of War | 44 |
Crete and the Issue of Female Sexuality | 52 |
The Ecstatic and the Divine as Inseparable | 60 |
II | 67 |
The Diminishment of Daughters | 79 |
Clytemnestra Is Sacrificed on the Altar of Marriage | 145 |
A Multitude of Myths to Tame Punish and Disparage Women | 161 |
A Glorious Monument Enshrining the Subordination of Women | 175 |
IV | 195 |
Ancient Beliefs Spring Up among the Celts | 209 |
V | 231 |
Appendix | 247 |
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