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The Goddess and the Bull defines and describes the aspects of the
Mother Goddess as an archetype. Through this study, the role of the
feminine comes to light as one of the most important facets of the
Minoan-Mycenaean culture. By examining the feminine emphasis in the
Bronze Age world of religion and science, the study of the Goddess
changes our views of ancient cultures such as this one. The
relationship between the Goddess and the Bull forms the basis of
the study of the astronomer priestesses of the Minoan-Mycenaean
culture. Their relationship and the iconology that surround it,
reveals their interest in cycles of the moon, the sun, and the
stars. The Bull also becomes an icon of regeneration and
resurrection by measuring its progression through the night sky in
cycles of time beyond the year. Amazingly, the Minoan's scientific
observations are based on information from as far back as the
Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras, which has been transferred to their
culture through the celebration of the Goddess and her consort and
son, the Bull.
The Myth of the Year reveals the astronomy underlying Celtic and
Greek mythology using the calendar of the Druids discovered in
Coligny, France and the Sacred Calendar of Eleusis of ancient
Greece. The myths of the ancients follow the seasons through the
constellations illuminating the path of knowledge our ancestors
lived throughout their year. To fully explain the meaning of these
seasonal myths, the origin of the goddesses and the gods are traced
to their Neolithic roots using Marija Gimbutas' archetypes of the
Neolithic Pantheon. Indo-European adaptations made to some of the
major deities are also discussed providing a profile of the
evolution of the ancient goddesses and gods from Neolithic times to
their present representations in the night sky. Besides linking
astronomy to mythology, The Myth of the Year presents an effective
and carefully researched path of ancient knowledge viable as a
source of patterns of the sky, the earth, the moon, and the sun,
meticulously plotted through eons of ancient knowledge.
This book of poetry is something that lets her express how she
views the world around her in her day to day life. There are many
ways of expressing ourselves, poetry just happens to have become a
way of releasing frustration of what she feels we all go through.
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