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Sacred Sites and Megalithic Mysteries >> Archaeology of Mother Earth Sites and Sanctuaries through the Ages
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Andy B
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|  Posted 17-10-2012 at 16:17
Interesting new book out
BAR S2389 2012: Archaeology of Mother Earth Sites and Sanctuaries through the Ages Rethinking symbols and images, art and artefacts from history and prehistory edited by G. Terence Meaden.
ISBN 9781407309811. £42.00. i+132 pages; illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.
Papers from a session on ‘Mother Earth’ sites presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in Valetta, Malta, in September 2008.
The papers discussed the various forms of evidence not only from definite ‘Mother Earth’ sites but from others for which an expression of a divine feminine principle, personified as belief in an Earth Mother or other female deity, may be inferred as possible or sometimes likely—especially where the work is based on new discoveries.
Contents: Introduction (G. T. Meaden);
1) Mythical Representations of ‘Mother Earth’ in Pictorial Media (Nikos Chausidis);
2) Perceptions Of The Landscape: At the Palaeolithic Sites Potocka Zijalka and Divje Babe I, Slovenia (Bostjan Odar);
3) Sacred Sites and Symbolism in the Neolithic Landscape of Barbagia Di Seulo, Central Sardinia (M. G. Gradoli and G. T. Meaden);
4) Neolithic Art and Artefacts in Caves Near Seulo in Central Sardinia: ‘Grutta 1 De Longu Fresu’ (M. G. Gradoli and G. T. Meaden);
5) Prehistoric Occupation and Use of a Cave near Seulo in Central Sardinia: ‘The Oval Room’ at ‘Is Janas’ (M. G. Gradoli and G. T. Meaden);
6) The Neolithic Monument of Newgrange in Ireland: a Cosmic Womb? (Kate Prendergast);
7) Proto-Sardinian Iconography and Ideology of the Cult of the Mother Goddess (Giovanni Ugas);
8) The Five Megaliths of the Avebury Cove (G. T. Meaden);
9) Testing Stonehenge Experimentally Using a Replica Full-Size Altar Stone Positioned at the Focus of the Monument (G. T. Meaden);
10) Towards the Interpretation of Neolithic Corporeality: Committing ‘Mothers’ to Earth (Goce Naumov);
11) “The Bee Goddess”: Another Form of a Great Female Divinity? (Angeliki Liveri);
12) A Case of Prehistoric Incubatio: the Cult Site of Civitaluparella, Chieti, Italy (Tomaso Di Fraia);
13) The Mother Goddess in the Monuments and Rituals at the “Dausdava” Getic Religious Centre: Thracian Remains and Modern Relicts (Diana Gergova);
14) Medieval Simulacra of the Mother Earth in the Christian Traditions (Orhideja Zorova);
15) Stones Called Baba as a Continuous Symbol of the Female Divine Principle: Folklore, Mythology and Archaeology (Katya Hrobat);
16) Dust of the Ancestors: the Essence of Being and the Divinity of the Earth (Roberta R. Dods);
17) Earth and Sacredness in the Contemporary World: a Study Case (Dragos Gheorghiu).
Some more details here
http://events.um.edu.mt/eaa2008/meaden.pdf
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A divine female figure that went under different names in different cultures. You will know that my interpretation of Stonehenge (1983 onwards) and numerous other sites of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Eurasia (stone circles, long barrows, chambered barrows, Giant's Tombs (of the Mediterranean countries)) centres on the likelihood of this.
I explored the concept a bit in my "Goddess of the Stones: The language of the Megaliths" (1991) to which Marija Gimbutas wrote a preface.
That book is quite out of date now, so I am planning to rewrite and republish it. The latest work (Archaeology of Mother Earth Sites and Sanctuaries - above) covers much of the European view of this subject.
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| Posted 17-10-2012 at 18:25
available from
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| Posted 13-01-2013 at 15:59
Terence's paper from the collection is here
http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/Meaden2LR.pdf
The Five Megaliths of the Avebury Cove
G. Terence Meaden
Oxford University Department of Continuing Education (Archaeology) and Kellogg College,
Abstract. A review of documents and drawings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries shows that the Avebury Cove, built in the British Late Neolithic, was unique because it was the result of five positioned megaliths. Four were standing stones while the fifth was a huge triangular stone that served as a dry platform or stage. Suggestions are made as to the intended purpose of the Cove stones that as a group align to the midsummer sunrise, and together function to produce a dramatic cult spectacle known as the Marriage of the Gods.
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| Posted 13-01-2013 at 16:04
Stonehenge reviewed through experimental archaeology using a replica full-size Altar Stone positioned at the focus of the monument—and its consequences for interpreting the basic meaning of Stonehenge.
http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/Meaden3.pdf
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Terence's paper from the collection is here
http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/Meaden2LR.pdf
The Five Megaliths of the Avebury Cove
G. Terence Meaden
Oxford University Department of Continuing Education (Archaeology) and Kellogg College,
Abstract. A review of documents and drawings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries shows that the Avebury Cove, built in the British Late Neolithic, was unique because it was the result of five positioned megaliths. Four were standing stones while the fifth was a huge triangular stone that served as a dry platform or stage. Suggestions are made as to the intended purpose of the Cove stones that as a group align to the midsummer sunrise, and together function to produce a dramatic cult spectacle known as the Marriage of the Gods.
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It is at the cove where two flows begin to sort of twine together.
It amused Me to find a meeting of members of another forum sat at the location of where the two flows meet, they must be dowsers who don't know it?
Twenty foot to the left of the left hand stone looking from the pub.
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