Woman Shaman: the Ancients DVD
This video by Max Dashú reveals the rich cultural record of medicine women, seers, oracles, healers, trance-dancers, shapeshifters, and dreamers—on a global scale. The visually stunning exploration of female shamans in archaeology overthrows the presumption that archaic shamanism was a masculine preserve. Max Dashu retrieves archaeological images from obscurity to reveal an unimaginably rich female past. Women do ceremony in rock art of the Sahara, southern Africa, Azerbaijan, Spain, and Baja California. They dance with tigers on Indus seals, with serpents on Iranian ones, and in ecstatic ceremonies on Aztec codices, Chinese bronzes, and Cretan seals. Female shape-shifters manifest walrus tusks in Nunavut, and horns in Libya; ceramic sculptures in Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, show women changing into snakes, owls, deer.
See ancient representations of divination, laying-on of hands, staff dancers, regalia, deified shamans, paleolithic shamans-- all augmented by an evocative musical underscore. To experience the beauty, power and wisdom of these spiritual legacies is medicine for the spirit, especially for the women who have been pushed down, marginalized, denied, and silenced in the name of religion. These most ancient spiritual ways have immense value—however far back, or deep, we have to go to recover this human birthright.
Movie with full music underscore. 2 disc dvd set, total run time 178 minutes.
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Contents:
Disc I: Invocation. Sacred Dance. Flight. Shapeshifters. Serpents. Animal Spirits. Goddesses with Shamanic Aspects. Healers. Diviners
Disc II: The Oldest Shamans. Drums. Rattles. Entheogens. Staffs. Fans and Herb Bundles. Headdresses and Crowns. Mirrors. Finale. Commentary
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Reviews:
“I just finished watching Max Dashu’s DVD Woman Shaman. It is life-changing to see so many images of women shamans, priestesses, and spiritual leaders across time and culture. The images Dashu has collected present a totally different picture of the world and of women than is available in most of our culture. I highly recommend this work: it will change your view of spiritual practice forever.” –Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, co-founder of Kohenet Institute, Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion.
“How I wish this video had existed when I was both studying and then teaching. This is a huge contribution. Bravo and thank you for your amazing discoveries.” –Gloria Orenstein, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
“I am in awe of the amount of research put into this body of work. The images, art, myths, and music are woven together in an exquisite and evocative tapestry. I know I will be watching again and again…there is so much to behold!” — Jenna Farr Ludwig
“Max is one of the most knowledgeable and dedicated researchers, artists, teachers I know. She has been addressing cultural kinship with great respect, sensitivity, and generosity.” –Luisah Teish, Iyanifa and Olori, Ilé Orunmila Oshun
