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Habitations of the Great Goddess

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The evidence laid out in this series of works is very compelling. The critics of these ideas seem only able to express themselves with "Preposterous!" or "Idiotic" but never with a calm rational comparison of data and artifacts.

One reviewer says it is idiotic to assume that the bull could have been a female symbol, that this is Gimbutas' imagination. But then there is artwork remaining from this era with clear pictures of bull skulls with horns drawn over the pelvic areas of women, with the horns positioned where the fallopian tubes would be.

The critics of Gimbutas either don't read her work or address people who have never read her work themselves.

Seeing the anger and spite towards this body of scholarly work leaves me wondering why is there so much hatred and antagonism towards the work of Gimbutas? Why are there so many irrational and inaccurate criticisms of her body of work?

This book is superb. It is well written and the arguments for a goddess religion in Malta and the Orkney and Shetland islands is indeed convincing. The pictures are beautiful. That neolithic society was matrifocal and that the religious pantheon was dominated by female entities is, in my opinon, established beyond any reasonable doubt by authors like Mellaart, Gimbutas - and Cristina Biaggi!

But one thing is quite disturbing in this book (at least in the edition i have). "BCE" is generally replaced with "BP" witout changing the numbers! It may be some computer mistake but the unitiated reader might for example get the impression that the neolithic culture at Malta existed between 1500 - 500 BCE - since the book claims it existed between 3500 - 2500 "BP". ("Before Present"). I know that Cristina Biaggi very well know the chronology so it must be some weird mistake. It is a pity in such an impressive work.

Reading this book was like traveling halfway across the planet and entering a time when women's energy ruled. Dr. Biaggi makes a fascinating case for a time when a woman (The Goddess) was the first diety. This is a scholarly, ste-by-step exploration, but it is also lyrical and playful. One shares Dr. Biaggi's growing sense of wonder as she finds, examines and beautifully describes the mounting body of evidence of the Goddess culture, from cave drawings to artifacts to more Temples. The illustrations are wonderful. I highly recommend this book as a must read for every woman.

This book is entirely ridiculous and a waste of your money! How this person thinks she can get rich writing these stupidities I do not know.