2010 Suppressed Histories Events visual presentations by Max Dashu Previous events Events in Southern California Friday, May 20, 2011, at 7:30 pm Treasures of African Women, Part II This is the greatness they denied, but that you always knew existed. We'll see the exquisite Yoruba portrait heads of Ilè-Ifé, stone sculptures at Esie, and Benin bronzes. Clay figurines of Zimbabwe, lake Chad, and Uganda. Queenly crowns and female drums, wooden ancestor icons and masks; dancers, weavers, women's art in clay, calabash, mudcloth, murals, and baskets; harpists from around Africa, izangoma and rainmakers, and female warriors, liberators and liberationists. Temple of Ravenmoon 5808 E. Rogene Street, Long Beach, CA 90815 $10 to 20. sliding scale. Heritage posters, art prints, magnets and dvds will be for sale. Saturday, May 21, 2011, at 7:00 pm Ancient Spain: Shamans, Ancestors, Priestesses and Goddesses Art riches from a little-known corner of European antiquity: women in rock art, neolithic figurines, Grandmother Stones, lunulas and female diadems; the Iberian Goddess (with Ashtart of the Phoenicians and Tanit of Carthage), las Damas de Galera, Elche, Baza and more; libation priestesses, musicians, processions, dancers, spinners, riders, wolf-women, bird-women; Goddess Ataecina and the ritual saunas of Portugal. visual presentation by Max Dashu Goddess Temple of Orange County 17905 Sky Park Circle, #A Irvine, CA 92614 Directions $20. Wheelchair accessible.Info: (949) 651-0564 Heritage posters, art prints, magnets and notecards will be for sale. The TEMPLE SAYS: “Max always brings us the hidden history of women, she always casts a shining lamp upon the obscured past, bringing it to light for our female empowerment. This scholar is a treasure for women all around the globe … and what is a treasure for women is a benefit to humanity. Experience the genius of Max Dashu for yourself!” –Ava, Presiding Priestess Max will speak again at Temple Services on Sunday, May 22 (11 am) on Tin Hau, spiritual adept who became a goddess in coastal China Spiritual Heritages of Ancient Europe will resume summer of 2011, probably in July Celtic, Germanic, and Italian goddesses, sanctuaries and priestesses. Women's Mysteries in Rome, and the first mass witch hunt. Magna Mater, and priestesses under the Empire. Slaves and witches. The New Religion, imperial Christianization, and what became of women, Pagans, Jews and heretics under the new order. We retrace what can be reconstructed of goddess reverence, sacred dance, chant, and female rituals; women as seers, healers, and priestessses. We also track an interwoven strand: patriarchy and the demotion and repression of women's power. We'll survey archaeology, the written record, legal codes, art, linguistic evidence, and folklore. We'll draw on images from the Suppressed Histories Archives, and excerpts from my forthcoming book Secret History of the Witches, Vol I, with discussion and occasional webcast visual presentations. Read more about the upcoming course Spiritual Heritages of Ancient Europe and see an introductory video describing what we'll be covering in this course ::: Online course ::: * Now closed * Woman Shaman Drummers, dreamers, diviners. Oracles, seers, and prophets. Medicine women, healers, curanderas, and herbalists. Women who invoke spirit. Rainmakers. Ecstatic dancers, shapeshifters, sky-goers. A global view of female spiritual powers: chant, sacramental dance, shamanic flight. Woman is by nature a shaman, says a Chukchee proverb in northeastern Siberia, and many ethnic traditions say that the first shaman was female. Explore the worldwide visual record of female shamans, from ancient times to the present. We'll look at Saharan and South African rock art, Greek ceramic paintings, Aztec manuscripts, Chinese bronzes, clay sculptures from ancient Ecuador and Iraq, soapstone sculptures from Alaska and ivory from Greenland, and modern photographs from all over the world. And we'll discuss cosmology, sacred objects, psychic technologies, culturally specific and transculturally universal symbols, meanings and experiences. INCLUDES WEBCASTS: INVOCATION, SACRED DANCE, SHAPESHIFTING AND FLIGHT, HEALERS, DIVINERS, and more... You can subscribe month by month, open-ended registration. Ends March 2011. More info here. "I'm a woman who looks toward the inside... I'm a woman who knows how to swim in the sacred..." ---Maria Sabina, Mazatec curandera, Mexico   Home | Catalog | Articles | Email query