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What they didn’t teach us about women in Greek myth and iconography: a richly illustrated ethnohistorical sourcebook. Women’s dance, ceremony, and spiritual culture from 1600 BCE to 300 CE: bee and snake shapeshifters, priestesses, prophecy, goddess temples. But also sexual politics of war and captivity, conquest and slaving, and the origins of “rape culture” in Western Civ. Ariadne of the Labyrinth, Herophile the Sibyl, the diviner Manto, Iō the once-priestess of Hera; the Libyan Danaides, Helen of Sparta, Kassandra of Troy, and the prophetic but persecuted daughter, Melanippe the Wise. We are currently shipping to the US, UK, EU & CANADA. If you are outside of these areas or are looking to purchase a large quantity, please fill out this order request form. -
Petroglyphs of vulvas are engraved into rock walls, caves, and boulders all over the world. They date from the Paleolithic and into modern times. Some are deeply grooved into the stone from repeated tracings or from grinding out rock dust for ceremonial uses, such as conception, healing, and rainmaking. Semi-gloss poster (18 x 24 inches) © 2009 Max Dashu. -
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These posters are being offered at half price due to an error, in which two pots appear within black rectangles slightly darker than the background. Thus the Fates have decreed that the Breastpots poster must be a total bargain—at only $10, plus shipping. Semi-gloss poster, 18 x 24 inches. © 2010 Max Dashu -
The Numinous Female: Vitality, Joy, Protective Power. Collage of vulva icons from around the world: Vanuatu, Ecuador, Brazil, Aegean Islands, Iroquoia, Costa Rica, Belau, Iran, Egypt, Nicaragua, Congo, Canaan, Australia, India, Nepal, Colombia, Gabon, Rapa Nui, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Chad, Vietnam, Britain, Serbia, and Cameroon. Semi-gloss poster (18 x 24 inches) © 2009 Max Dashu. -
The assemblage of ancient female figurines recollects the world's primordial spiritual art in all its diversity,its deep continuities and global connections. -
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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. Women’s Power, an 85-minute video by Max Dashú, provides a panoramic view of female leadership, creativity, wisdom, and courage, around the world and over thousands of years. This acclaimed dvd looks at female spheres of power in politics, economics, religion, medicine, arts and letters, featuring a rich tapestry of women famous and anonymous, ancient and modern. These are the bold and creative women you always knew existed, who were kept out of the history books and off the TV screens. Seeing their reality will change how you think about female humanity. If you’ve ever wondered where the women were— you’ll want to see this movie. -
Magnificent icons from the Suppressed Histories Archives, with 50 drawings and commentary by Max Dashu. This rich collection of goddesses, spirits and ancestors from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific and the Americas, comes through rock art and murals, sculpture, painted ceramics and codices. It includes divinities of Earth, Water, and Fire, of snakes, dragons, lions, bears, birds and spiders; trees of life, Nature spirits, chimeric animals and wild women. There are also images of Indigenous ancestral mothers and of the female Divine in Hindu, Buddhist and Christian iconography. A description and commentary appears on the reverse page of each image. New: color pictures and commentaries Goddesses, spirits, ancestors from the global collection of the Suppressed Histories Archives, drawn in diverse styles, bold and fine line. Improvise your own shadings and patterns. Each icon is identified on the reverse page. Enrich your understanding of the female Divine while coloring goddesses of water, fire and earth, of night and illumination, of snakes, birds, and animals. Breathe the cultural intelligence of the icons, as they unfold symbol, pattern, and story through the dreaming of art. We are currently able to ship to US addresses only. -
A compelling exploration of language, archaeology, and literature that illuminates hidden cultural heritages: women’s ceremonies for the Fates; old ethnic names for ‘witch’ as wisewoman; the women who go by night with Diana or Holda. From forgotten heathen strands, the book reweaves the ripped webs of women’s culture. Annotated; 140 illustrations. $24.99 + shipping. We are currently shipping to the US, UK, EU & CANADA. If you are outside of these areas or are looking to purchase a large quantity, please fill out this order request form. -
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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.