Online Courses with Max Dashu 2009

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Enrollment is open-ended, $20 per month (USD). Participants receive exclusive advance access to book excerpts, visual talks, videos, and discussion board, and are encouraged to choose individual research projects on related topics. No grades, no college credits. Fees payable online via Paypal, which accepts major credit cards.

Gnostic goddessSecret History of the Witches
What can we reconstruct of women's spiritual leadership and practice from archaeological and historical sources for the period 700 BCE to 700 CE? We'll be looking at pagan European goddess traditions, faery faiths, priestesses, diviners, healers, herbalists, folk ritual, herbal lore, sexual politics, state and church repression.

Topics include: The Elder Kindreds and Indo-European conquests. The Tribe of Danu. Gaels and Gauls. Pythias. Melissae. The Moirae. Greek Priestesses --and Witches. Italian sibyls. Etruscans. Patria Potestas. Women's Mysteries. Slaves and Witches. Priestesses Under the Empire. The Magna Mater. And much more: see the first three chapters of book outline. This course will offer more than will be possible to publish in the print edition!
Jamacoaque figurine, Ecuador

Female Icons, Ancestral Mothers
What is the submerged story of the ancient female figurines, which have been so pointedly overlooked in world history and comparative religion? We'll look at the archaeological record and folk tradition, and rediscover the world's primordial spiritual art in all its diversity, deep continuities and global connections. Get a taste of what this course covers. We may also get into the ancestor stones, vulva signs, breastpots and motherpots.

women embracing, ancient JaliscoSuppressed Histories: Ongoing Research
Articles, websites, pictures, with a focus on global women's history, ancient, medieval and modern, culled from 70 listservs and assorted web searches. Heritages, spheres of power, structures of oppression, women's movements. Recent discoveries and excavations, new publications, indigenous voices. History jumps the ivory tower and goes public.

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