Previous Suppressed Histories Events
presented by Max DashuEvents in 2010
East Coast Events
Friday, April 16, 7 pm (Boston area)
Grandmother Stones: Megalithic Europe
Max Dashu shows the female menhir-statues of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sardinia, and the megalithic art of Ireland, Bretagne, and Denmark. This is a chance to see the ancient female monuments omitted by nearly all histories. These grandmother stones and communal funerary sanctuaries (womb-tombs) grew out of matrilineal and communal societies. We'll also look at similarities to statue-menhirs in Algeria and Ethiopia, plus stone spirals, vulvas, and the ancestor-face motif.
The Women's Well 120 Commonwealth Avenue, W. Concord MA 01742
Suggested donation $15-20. This event is for women.
Sunday, April 18, 7 pm (northern Massachusetts)
Crete, the Cycladic Islands, and Greece
Ancestors, goddesses, priestesses, and women's ritual, 6000 BCE to 200 CE. Female figurines, Cycladic marbles, Cretan frescos and seals; bee seeresses, snake women, bear girls, shamanic dancers and crone masks; archaic Hera and Artemis, the Mistress of Animals, Hekate, Gorgons, the Furies, Medea— and patriarchy's impact on mythology. This isn’t the Greece we were taught! Rare images from the legendary Suppressed Histories Archives collection.
Unitarian Universalist Church 6 Locke Street, Andover, MA 01810
Donation at door. All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible. Directions
Wednesday, April 21 7:30 pm (Virginia)
Crete, Cycladic Islands, and Greece
Ancestors, goddesses, priestesses, and women's ritual, 6000 BCE to 200 CE. Female figurines, Cycladic marbles, Cretan frescos and seals; bee seeresses, snake women, bear girls, shamanic dancers and crone masks; archaic Hera and Artemis, the Mistress of Animals, Hekate, Gorgons, the Furies, Medea—and patriarchy's impact on mythology. This isn’t the Greece we were taught! Rare images from the legendary Suppressed Histories Archives collection.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax
2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton, VA 22124Suggested Donation: $15. to $5.
Sponsored by UUCF Women's Spirit Circle
April 23-25 The Green Goddess Conference
Max Dashu presents Female Icons, Ancestral MothersPrimeval art shows deep continuities across time and space, centered on the Sacred Female. We'll survey her recurring symbols and patterns in world archaeology: matrikas ("female figurines"), vulva stones, ancestral megaliths, ceremonial breastpots and motherpots. All these offer a window into the ritual culture of the ancients: their icons, altars, invocatory movements, body-painting, libations and other sacraments.
(Kirkridge Center, Bangor Pennsylvania)
This conference of the Association for Women and Mythology is organized by
Patricia Monaghan and Sid Reger, and it's going to be phenomenal!
Events in EuropeMay 28-30 (Conference at Hambacher Schloss near Frankfurt)
The Living Goddess: Political Dimension of Feminist Spirituality
Max Dashu will present
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront EmpirePriestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against conquest, empire, and cultural colonization. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women’s political leadership, challenging systems of domination on many levels. Includes female liberators in Tunisia, Peru, Congo, Netherlands, Chiapas, Jamaica, Haiti, Somalia, France, Brazil, California, Zimbabwe, New Mexico, Uganda, China, Sonora, South Africa, and Senegal.
Tuesday, March 16 ... 6:30 pm ... FREE
Suppressed Histories: Iran
Ancient Iran has a rich mythic heritage. We’ll view really ancient ceramics and magnificent female icons; Elamite goddesses from Susa; the rare, little-known snake goddess seals from Marhasi and amazing images from Marlik. We see the great goddess Anahita, and the wild-side bronzes from Luristan (for all you animal-lovers). Plus: carpet weavers, women in Persian miniatures and in the Iranian revolutions. A diverse and sumptuous slideshow on 7000 years of Iranian culture, with women at the center.
Dimond Branch, Oakland Public Library
3565 Fruitvale Avenue Oakland, CA 94602
Saturday, March 20 ... 7:30 pm
Suppressed Histories Archives: 40 years! benefit
Vision for the Long CountP r e m i e r e : highlights from the digital Archives
With special guests: drummers Matu Feliciano and Yayo,
sacred Hawaiian dance by Leilani Birely, kahuna and
high priestess of Daughters of the GoddessRedwood Gardens Community Room
2951 Derby Street, Berkeley 94705
(top end of Derby, east of College)
$10-20. sliding scale donation.
All are welcome. Wheelchair access.Sacra Vulva poster, Women's Power dvd, prints, T-shirts,
and lots of specials. Bring cash or checks; no credit cards.
Thursday, March 4 ... 7 pm
Suppressed Histories: Kemetic Deasophy
(Ancient Egypt)
Max Dashu presents a slideshow on the goddess iconography and cosmology of ancient Egypt and Sudan, from predynastic times up to the Roman empire. Neit, Het-Heru, Maat, Auset (Isis), Ta-Uert, Sekhmet, Uadjet and Nubian goddesses. Reconnect with the sacred images and profound mystery teachings of ancient Africa, the divine names and litanies and symbols of She Who Is Self-Born, Never Having Been Created.
Sagrada Sacred Arts :: $10-20 donation
4926 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609 : : See flier
Tuesday, March 9
Female Rebels and MavericksAudacious women who break the rules: adventurers, witches and wantons, heretics, lesbians, cross-dressers, daredevils, free-thinkers, radicals, insurgents, visionaries
A global spectrum of valiant and defiant women: a heretical Italian pope, renegade Buddhist nuns, the runaway Afghani who became a Sufi master. Women who took on male guise to fight in revolutions, practice medicine, and roam the world. Chinese marriage-resisters, North American free-lovers, and Hindu avadhutis who disregarded norms of female (or any) dress. Singers of rebetika, boleros, and the blues. Tattooed women, martial artists, and fiery orators speaking out against injustice and war.
University of Dayton, Ohio. Location and time TBA
Friday, Feb. 19, 7 pm, in Emeryville
Iberian Ancestors, Priestesses and Goddesses
New show, and debut of the Archives' new digital projector. (Thanks, donors!)
5000-year-old statue-menhirs, plaques, and "eye-idols"; Phoenician goddesses in bronze and clay; the Damas of Elche, Baza, and other limestone masterpieces; exvotos of female oferentes in stone, bronze and clay; dancers and spinners in ceramic art of Lliria; plus amazon seals, stone heads, cauldrons, figurines, and gold diadems.At the studio of artist Briana Kaufmann. Pre-register for location (in Emeryville)
2009 Events
Saturday, January 31, 3:00 pm
Chaos and the Restoration of Pagan Wisdom
Huang! Hu! Miao! Ming! Profound! Mysterious! In the center there are essences, most true essences.
Max Dashu presents a visual journey into spirals, vital Essence, and the Creative Power of Deep Night, as shown in sacred traditions of the Chinese, Maori, Senufo, Greeks, Kogi, Pueblos, Irish, Maya, and Dogon. It's the Deep that renews us, "the ocean of being from which the cosmos pours" (Chandi Paath), its signs in nature, rock art, offering pots, and sacred objects of all kinds. And what does this have to do with eggs, butterflies, sleep, the Zapatistas, and the massive transformations we face now?
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU)
1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita Avenue) Berkeley, CA 94709-2022
Hosted by the Pagan Alliance. Refreshments will be available. All are welcome.
$5 to $20 sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of fundsThe new Female Icons poster and the Women's Power DVD will be available to purchase at the event.
Max Dashu at the Pantheacon (Doubletree Hotel, San José CA)
Sat, Feb. 14, 3:30 pm:
Goddess, Snakes and Chimeric Beasts in Iran
Ancient Iran has a rich mythic heritage. We’ll look at really ancient ceramics and magnificent female icons; Elamite goddesses from Susa; the rare, little-known snake goddess seals from Marhasi, and their analogs at Marlik and in the Zagros mountains. We visit shrines and reliefs of the great goddess Anahita, and look at the wild-side bronzes from Luristan (this means you, animal-lovers). A sumptuous slideshow on thousands of years of Iranian spiritual culture from the Suppressed Histories Archives.Sun, Feb. 15, 3:30 pm:
Chaos and the Restoration of Pagan Wisdom
Huang! Hu! Miao! Ming! Profound! Mysterious! In the center there are essences, most true essences.
New show: a visual journey into spirals, vital Essence, and the Creative Power of Deep Night, in sacred traditions of the Chinese, Maori, Senufo, Greeks, Kogi, Pueblos, Irish, Maya, and Dogon. It's the Deep that renews us, "the ocean of being from which the cosmos pours" (Chandi Paath). We see its signs in nature, rock art, offering pots, and sacred objects of all kinds. And what does this have to do with eggs, butterflies, sleep, the Zapatistas, and the massive transformations we face now?
The Old Goddess and her night-flying witches
As we approach the Winter Nights, realm of the Old Goddess. we gaze upon the pagan Goddess of the Witches--Holle, Diana, Holle, Abundia, Andra Mari, Fraw Perchta-- and hear her stories. Fatas, faeries, and the “good women who go by night” with the Old Goddess. How Goddess paganism persisted in medieval Europe, from Norns and Weird Sisters to faerie godmothers, and from Eorthan Mother and her serpents to Diana, Herodias, and the shamanic myth of the witches' flight.
POSTPONED: We'll reschedule. Check this space for updates
Friday, Feb 20, 7:30 pm
Slavic Pagan Tradition
Images, myths and sacraments from the Balkans to Russia, a region that never relinquished its Staraya Vyera, the "Old Faith". People observed pagan calendars and venerated animist deities including goddess Mokosh, Moist Mother Earth, All-Wise Elena, the rusalky and birth faeries. We'll look at the Czech prophetess Libusha, folk healers and midwives, herb-lore, sacred sweat lodges, spinner's rituals -- and the Baba Yaga.
Held at the studio of Briana Kaufmann.
Pre-register for location (in Emeryville) and to assure a seat: 510-655-1592 or contact@brianakaufmann.com.$10-20. sliding scale. Low income pay as able. Sorry, this venue is not wheelchair accessible: second floor.
Saturday, March 7, 7:30 pm
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against conquest, empire, and cultural colonization. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political. Starring Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), Tang Saier (China), Jeanne d'Arc (France), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimpa Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva, Los Angeles), Wanankhucha (Somalia), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Mexico), Muhumusa (Uganda), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe).
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita Avenue), Berkeley 94709
Thursday, March 12, 7:15 pm
The Goddess Veiled
And not so veiled. How reverence for the female Divine survived theological coups, iconoclasm, and persisted under patriarchal and colonial regimes. Goddesses into saints, bodhisattvas, jinni, faeries and Black Madonnas. Sophia, Paraskeva, Liberata, Wilgefortis, Sara la Kali, and the Queen of Sheba. Dolmens into chapels.
Serpents and deer-women and mermaids and gargoyles.Sagrada Sacred Arts 4926 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609
Female Seers, Prophetesses, and Medicine Women
a new Suppressed Histories exhibit (January through March 2009)
at the Oakland Public Library, Dimond Branch
3565 Fruitvale Avenue (near MacArthur) Oakland CA 94602
Tuesday, March 17, 6:30 pm ... free and open to the public
Female Rebels and Mavericks
Audacious women who break the rules: adventurers, witches and wantons, heretics,
lesbians, women who pass as men, daredevils, free-thinkers, radicals, insurgents, and visionariesA global spectrum of valiant and defiant women: a heretical Italian pope, renegade Buddhist nuns, the runaway Afghani who became a Sufi master. Women who took on male guise to fight in revolutions, practice medicine, and roam the world. Chinese marriage-resisters, North American free-lovers, and Hindu avadhutis who disregarded norms of female (or any) dress. Singers of rebetika, boleros, and the blues. Tattooed women, martial artists, and fiery orators speaking out against injustice and war.
I went out of the convent; I found myself on the street, without knowing where to go.
That was no matter. All I wanted was liberty. --Catalina Erausa, Basque adventurer (1585-1650)Dimond Branch, Oakland Public Library
3565 Fruitvale Avenue Oakland, CA 94602
Saturday, March 28, noon to 7:30 pm
Max Dashu Art Salon with shows on global women artists
1-1:30 pm... The first women artists: female figurines (Suppressed Histories slideshow)
3-3:30 pm... Women's mural art in Africa and India (Suppressed Histories slideshow)
5-5:30 pm... Early art by Max Dashu: 1968 - 1980 (Suppressed Histories slideshow)
Prints, posters, cards, magnets, and Tshirts by Max Dashu.
Specials on some items, including closeout cards.860 46th Street, Oakland CA (near Market) Enter through gate in back.
SPRING TOUR: MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT
Saturday, April 4, 7:30 pm
Celtic Goddesses of France and Britain
Max Dashu shows her rare slide collection of ancient Celtic goddesses and women, in ceramic and bronze and stone. The snake-dancing women of Mavilly and Yorkshire. Magical cauldrons and sacred springs. Altar-stones of the Matronae. The horse-goddess Epona, bear goddess Artio, Rosmerta with her dairy churn-- or hooded spirits-- the healing serpents of Sirona and Verbeia, and the waters of Sul at Bath. Last but not least, the joyously vulva-baring Sheila-na-gigs. A not-to-be-missed show from the Suppressed Histories Series.
The Women's Well
120 Commonwealth Avenue, West Concord MA 01742
Suggested donation $15-20. This is an event for women.
Sunday, April 5, 7:30 pm
Chaos and Indigenous Wisdom
Huang! Hu! Miao! Ming! Profound! Mysterious! In the center there are essences, most true essences.
A visual journey into spirals, vital Essence, and the Creative Power of Deep Night, in sacred traditions of the Chinese, Maori, Senufo, Greeks, Kogi, Pueblos, Irish, Maya, and Dogon. It's the Deep that renews us, "the ocean of being from which the cosmos pours" (Chandi Paath). We see its signs in nature, rock art, offering pots, and sacred objects of all kinds. And what does this have to do with eggs, butterflies, sleep, the Zapatistas, and the massive transformations we face now?Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6 Locke Street, Andover, MA 01810
Donation at door. All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible. Directions
Thursday, April 9, 7 pm
Witch Hunts: a prehistory of modern patriarchy
"Mais quoi, they say that all women are witches." --Aldegonde de Rue, France, 1601
The early modern Witch-Hunting Terror was the crucible of modern "Western Civilization," yet is little understood. We look at the role of diabolism in escalating the witch craze, especially the impact of torture-trials and mass burnings. The witch hunts attacked women, the old, gays, pagans, disabled and poor people as evildoers and "devil-worshippers." Clergy, doctors and professors played a leading role in propagating demonologist mythology, which the state enforced through sexualized torture. We look at witches' bridles, "women possessed," witch-prickers, "swimming," lynchings, and the export of witch-hunts to European colonies. What are the legacies of this repression in modern culture?
Media Education Foundation, Community Room 60 Masonic St, Northampton MA 01060
Donation (suggested $10.-20.) No one turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome.
Sponsored by the Rain and Thunder Collective. INFO: contact <rainandthunder@yahoo.com>
Saturday, April 11, 7:30 pm
Chaos and Indigenous Wisdom
Huang! Hu! Miao! Ming! Profound! Mysterious! In the center there are essences, most true essences.
A visual journey into spirals, vital Essence, and the Creative Power of Deep Night, in sacred traditions of the Chinese, Maori, Senufo, Greeks, Kogi, Pueblos, Irish, Maya, and Dogon. It's the Deep that renews us, "the ocean of being from which the cosmos pours" (Chandi Paath). We see its signs in nature, rock art, offering pots, and sacred objects of all kinds. And what does this have to do with eggs, butterflies, sleep, the Zapatistas, and the massive transformations we face now?Women's Temple, In Her Name at 8 Stone Meadow Lane, Canton, CT
Info: www.womenstemple.net or www.norajamieson.com
$20. For scholarships call 860-693-9540
Friday, April 24, 7:00 pm
Suppressed Histories: Iran
Magnificent, really ancient ceramics and female icons; archaeology from Susa and the Elamites, the rare, must-see snake goddess seals from Marhasi; shrines and reliefs of the goddess Anahita, the wild-side bronzes from Luristan. Women in Persian miniatures, carpet weavers, nomadic herders. Plus a look at women before and since the Iranian revolution, and the rebirth of the Iranian women's movement... a rare, rich and incredibly diverse look at 8000 years of Iranian history, with women at the center.
Sponsored by the ISAA (Iranian Student Alliance in America).
Barrows Hall Room 20, University of California at Berkeley (east of Sproul)
$5 - 10 sliding scale donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome
Saturday, May 9, 10 to 5 pm
May Festival of the Pagan Alliance ....FREE
Come to the ceremony where we invoke Goddesses of Life and the Waters, and where Max passes the Keeper of the Light staff to the new honoree. The theme of this year's Festival is Full Circle, and we'll circle dance and and chant for strength, healing and vision in this year of transformation, with as much juice as possible!
This year, we dance in Full Circle, offering libation to the land and ancestors, and chant to the Life Goddesses for blessing and positive transformation in this time of massive change. Priestess Max Dashu will lead us in dancing sunwise, stepping rhythmically, moving as we are moved, going deep, offering into the circle, and chanting sacred names for attunement, healing, and liberation. We will call on the Waters for blessing and healing, and sing to protect the Waters and the Earth.
My heartfelt invitation goes out to everyone to come help us raise strength and joy and blessing. You are invited to bring drums, rattles, cymbals, staffs, banners, libation bowls, and herbal sprigs to asperge water. Or bring nothing: just come and dance with us.
There will be a Pagan procession around noon through part of downtown Berkeley, and the ritual will follow, starting around 12:45 noon. It's open to everyone and is free. Plus there will be musicians and speakers in a stage program, and Nava will preside over our booth.
10 to 5 pm, Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Berkeley CA
May 15-18, 2009: Session I of the
Northern California Women's Herbal Symposium
Max is teaching three classes:
Herbal Traditions of Pagan Europe
Woman Shaman: a global view from ancient to modern times
Healing the Female: undoing the cultural spells of domination
info@womensherbalsymposium.org
at Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, California
Webinar with Max Dashu:
Crete, the Cycladic Islands, and Greece
Saturday, Sept. 12
11 am Pacific, 2pm US Eastern time (US)
Reserve your place
Ancestors, goddesses, priestesses, and women's ritual from the neolithic up to the classical period. Female figurines, Cycladic marbles, Cretan frescos and seals, snake women, ecstatic dancers, maenads, bear girls; archaic Hera and Artemis, the Mistress of Animals, Gorgons, the Furies, Hekate, Medea, and patriarchy's impact on mythology.
90 minutes of rare images...$15 to $20. sliding scale. Low income only: $10.
After payment you'll get a confirmation email with info about how to join the Webinar.This webinar is free to course subscribers (open-ended, month to month subs)
System Requirements for Webinar
PC: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Mac: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newerThe webinar offers a taste of Max's online course, Spiritual Heritages of Ancient Europe
See an introductory video describing the course content
Global-spectrum Webinar with Max Dashu:
Chaos, Creation, and ChangeSunday, Sept. 20
11 am Pacific, 2pm US Eastern time (US)
Reserve your place
A global visual journey into spirals, vital Essence, and the Creative Power of Deep Night, in sacred traditions of the Chinese, Maori, Dogon, Greeks, Kogi, Fang, Pueblos, Irish, and Maya. We look at global symbols of the Deep that renews us, "the ocean of being from which the cosmos pours" (in the words of India's Chandi Paath). Its signs appear in nature, rock art, labyrinths, offering pots, and sacred objects of all kinds.
And what does this have to do with eggs, butterflies, sleep, the Zapatistas, and the massive transformations we face now? 90 minutes.$15 to $20. sliding scale. Low income only: $10.
After payment you'll receive a confirmation email with info about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements for Webinar
PC: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Mac: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
Friday, October 2, 7:30 pm
Animal Goddesses
Around the Earth, goddesses, female shapeshifters, and spirits in the form of lions, tigers, bears, horses, deer, wolves, dogs, foxes, monkeys, cats, jaguars, cows, sows, crows, waterbirds, owls, spiders, and more. Kybele in Anatolia, Putcha Cy in Brazil, and the Mistress of Nature in Siberia.
$15-20. sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. In Emeryville.
Pre-register for address and to assure a seat: (510) 655-1592 or <contact@brianakaufmann.com> (Sorry, this location is up a flight of stairs.)
Saturday, October 10, 3:30 to 10 pm
Sebastopol CA
Goddess Night Out4 pm: Sherry Glaser performs her acclaimed, hilarious show
Oh My Goddess!6 pm: fabulous dinner with shiitake paella, salads and desserts
8 pm: Max Dashu's show on ancient goddess figurines, breastpots, vulva rocks
Female Icons, Ancestral Mothers$65. benefits the Northern California Women's Herbal Symposium
(Or bring your own dinner, and come for $35.-40 sliding scale.)
Friday, October 23, 7:30 pm
Witches and Pagans
As All Hallows approaches, we honor the ancestors and spiritual heritages of pagan Europe. From pagan priestesses to underground diviners, ritualists, and medicine women, we look at the witch within her cultural contexts -- Celtic, Italian, Germanic, Spanish, Czech -- and by the ethnic names that describe her powers and practices. Sacred herbs, wells, stones, knotwork, mysteries of spinning and weaving; pagan holydays, sacramental dance, faery healers, and sweathouses. Wisewomen at hearth and field and marketplace.
Saturday, Nov. 28 Rosas en el Mar
Curator: Mamacoatl Chantico
10 dollars, no one turned away
3316 24th Street (at Mission) San FranciscoA event of the 16 days of ARTivism for healing and education
See the full schedule of events here
Events in 2008
Friday, Nov 21, 1:15 pm
Female Rebels and Mavericks: Special Lesbian edition for Lavender Seniors
Audacious women who break the rules: adventurers, wantons, and witches, heretics, freethinkers, lesbians, radicals, insurgents, activists and visionaries. A global spectrum of valiant and defiant women, including women who passed as men in order to practice medicine, fight in revolutions, or roam the world.
North Oakland Senior Center, 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (old Merritt College)
Free admission, donations accepted. All are welcome to attend. Entrance / parking through gate on 58th St.
If you register a week in advance, you can take part in Lavender Lunch Bunch, through Lavender Seniors and City of Oakland.
A free lunch is provided at 12:30 pm, and the slide will follow in another room.
Saturday Nov. 22 at 7 pm
a new expanded version of
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been an arena for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political. With great new stuff on Teresa Urrea, Tang Saier, the Nyabinghi oracles of Uganda, and more.
Redwood Gardens Community Room:
2951 Derby Street, Berkeley 94705 (upper end of Derby east of College)
$10-20. sliding scale donation. All are welcome. Wheelchair access.Women's Power dvds, prints and specials will be available for purchase,
and we have Suppressed Histories T-shirts in all sizes once again!
North Carolina:
Goddess Cosmologies Friday, Oct. 17, 7:30 pm
A comprehensive global view of Goddess as Mother Essence, Source of Life, and Divine Law, whether she is called Maat (Egypt), Tao (China), Wyrd (Britain), or Aluna (Colombia). We gaze at cosmic maps and sacred signs in ancient and indigenous art: Australian bark-paintings, Mexican murals, Kongo gourds, Lithuanian distaffs and the stone tablets of Adena, Ohio. In praise of the Tree of Life, the Four Winds, goddesses of sun, moon and stars; Grandmother Spider and other female Creators. The ancient, mighty Fates who spin out the lives of all beings.Simpson Hall, AB Tech, 340 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801
$10-20 sliding scale, students $5. All are welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Woman Shaman Tuesday, Oct. 21, 7:30 pm (in Greensboro)
Woman is by nature a shaman, says a Chukchee proverb from Siberia, and many traditions say that the first shaman was female. See what is probably the most comprehensive visual record of female shamanic traditions worldwide, from ancient times to the present: women as drummers, dreamers, healers, oracles and diviners, ecstatic dancers, shapeshifters, and spirit-riders. Taste their primordial wisdom and water your visionary dreamscape with long-obscured riches.
at Guilford College, Community Center Multi-Purpose Room
5800 West Friendly Avenue Greensboro, NC 27410 .... FREE ADMISSION
Sponsored by Guilford College, Department of International Studies and WomanSpirit Rising
For more information e-mail: info@womynspirit-rising.org Directions
Woman Shaman Friday, Oct. 24, 7:30 pm in Asheville
Woman is by nature a shaman, says a Chukchee proverb from Siberia, and many traditions say that the first shaman was female. See what is probably the most comprehensive visual record of female shamanic traditions worldwide, from ancient times to the present: women as drummers, dreamers, healers, oracles and diviners, ecstatic dancers, shapeshifters, and spirit-riders. Taste their primordial wisdom and water your visionary dreamscape with long-obscured riches.Simpson Hall, AB Tech, 340 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801
$10-20 sliding scale, students $5. All are welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds.
The Old Goddess and her night-flying witches
Saturday, October 25, 7 pm
As All Hallows approaches, we honor the ancestors and spiritual heritages of pagan Europe. Fatas, faeries, and the “good women who go by night” with the Old Goddess: Holle, Diana, Holle, Abundia, Andra Mari, Fraw Perchta, and others). How Goddess paganism persisted in medieval Europe, from Norns and Weird Sisters to faerie godmothers, and from Eorthan Mother and her serpents to Diana, Herodias, and the shamanic myth of the witches' flight.Simpson Hall, AB Tech, 340 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801
$10-20 sliding scale, students $5. All are welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Woman Shaman / Healing the Female:
UNDOING THE CULTURAL SPELLS OF DOMINATION"We live in a society that subordinates, insults and violates women and girls. We desire to reclaim our power, to free contracted emotions and release toxic energies that have become trapped in our bodies. Under the wounded female is our true nature: joy, brilliance, wholeness. Cleanse the mirror and our light will shine forth strong and powerful."
Incantation, sounding, breath and movement. We invoke the resurgence of the Sacred within and among us, and will release, detoxify, expand, and open the flow so that we resound with shakti. Bring a mat, cushion, or blanket --and if you wish, a drum, rattle, or other sacred tools. No experience necessary! Come ready to imbibe nectar.
Sun Oct. 26, 1-4 pm, at Asheville Community Center,
Greenlife, at 70 Merrimon. This event is for women. $20-40 sliding scale.
Back in San Francisco: All Hallows Eve/Samhain, Oct. 31:
Women's Power screening in Honolulu
Wednesday, Aug 14, 2008 7:30pm
Revolution Books, next to Puck's Alley, behind 7-11, on King Street,
A panoramic view of female leadership, creativity, wisdom, and courage, around the world and over thousands of years. For the first time on DVD, this acclaimed show 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—see this movie!
The Women's Power DVD will be available for sale at this event.
Women's Power screening in Palo Alto
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2008 7:30pm
First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto
(in the Lounge)The Peninsula Women's Group hosts a screening of "Women's Power" as a benefit for the Suppressed Histories Archives. This dvd is an eye-opening documentary about women whose role in history has been minimized or deleted from standard history books.
The Women's Power DVD will be available for sale.
Tickets: $5-$15. No one turned away for lack of funds.
All women are welcome. www.peninsulawomensgroup.org
Saturday, August 23, 2008 noon to five pm
Snow Park, Oakland CA ... a free pride event
Nava and I will have our booth at the fabulosa Sistahs Steppin' in Pride festival (everyone welcome). It's a fun, free event, with a stage and great performers including Afia Walking-Tree and her posse of drummers. The Women's Power dvd, t-shirts, and art will be for sale.
Women's Power dvd premiere screening & release party!
Saturday March 22 2008 at 7 pm
Redwood Gardens Community Room: 2951 Derby Street, Berkeley
(at the upper end of Derby east of College Ave)Donations accepted. All are welcome. Wheelchair access.
DVDs will be available for purchase, of course, as well as Suppressed Histories T-shirts, prints and specials.
If you can't attend the release event, you can order online or by mail .
See video clips from the DVD online.
The full transcript is available on the Suppressed Histories website. Study guide questions will soon follow.
Convene a showing of Women's Power for your community, hold council about where women stand today and what needs to be done now, and support the Suppressed Histories Archives.
Massachusetts:
Thursday April 3, 6 pm
Female Rebels and Mavericks (plus an excerpt on Mother-Right cultures from Women's Power DVD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. Sponsored by CSS, for women students at M.I.T only.
Friday April 4, 7 to 9:30 pm
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).The Women's Well
120 Commonwealth Avenue, West Concord, MA $20 early/$25 regular
Pre-register (you can pay with credit card if you register with Women's Well online; scroll down on registration page to find date of showing)
Or call to register at 978-371-0469
Saturday April 5, 7 to 9:30 pm
Chinese Deasophy
The dragon woman – where does she come from? But when she comes, she rides the wind and rain! --poem of Ch'u
This visual presentation explores the Divine Female in ancient Chinese art: the rites of the Wu, the female shamans of old China; creation stories of the serpent goddess Nu Gua Shih; and Taoist animals of the elemental directions. Through images of Xi Wang Mu, the Great Yin, and her Tree with the peaches of immortality, her dragon-tiger throne, and her shamanic helpers – the three legged raven, phoenix, and medicine hare – we will look at traditions of the “Mysterious Female”/Dark Woman in Taoist mysticism and among female adepts and mountain herbalists.
The Women's Well
120 Commonwealth Avenue, West Concord, MA (Directions: http://www.womenswell.org/faq.html )
$20 early/$25 regular
Pre-register (you can pay with credit card if you register with Women's Well online; scroll down on registration page to find date of showing)
Or call to register at 978-371-0469
Sunday April 6, 7 to 9:30 pm
Taming the Female Body
In the name of propriety, modesty, and femininity, women have been bound, broken, slashed, hobbled, shrouded and confined. Hatred of women's bodies is not just in the past, or in some other benighted country, but lived here and now. This visual presentation looks at corsets, footbinding, seclusion, burqas and niqab, witches' bridles, female genital excision (and today's variant, surgical "labial reductions"), breast implants, liposuction, and the media culture of anorexia. Nawal el-Saadawi has called the Western obsession with makeup "the postmodern veil." Many women feel ashamed to be seen without it. Social coercion takes many forms, whether they involve the imperative to cover a woman's entire body -- or to strip it in a commercially-mandated display.
This presentation helps to understand such social coercion in its many forms, and give food for thought about what needs to change. We will conclude with a circle affirming the sacredness of the body, our power to release and transform pain, and to heal the female and all maladaptive forms of culture, in the name of what each of us holds most sacred.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation 6 Locke Street, Andover, MA 01810
Donation. No pre-registration required. All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible.
Information/Directions: Contact susanjfoster@comcast.net
Tuesday April 8, 7 pm (please note time change!)
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).Donation (suggested $10.-20). No one turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome.
at the Media Education Foundation Community Room 60 Masonic St, Northampton, MA 01060.
Sponsored by the Rain and Thunder Collective. INFO: contact <rainandthunder@yahoo.com>
Wednesday April 9, 7:30 pm
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).
Women's Temple, In Her Name
8 Stone Meadow Lane, Canton, CT
www.womenstemple.net or www.norajamieson.com
$20. For info or scholarship call 860-693-9540
Events in 2007:
Tuesday, December 4, 12:30 pm (noon)
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).Karl Anatol Center, California State University at Long Beach
Sponsored by Women's Studies Department at Cal State University - Long Beach. Free admission, all are welcome.Directions: Anatol Center is at the south end of campusm on the 1st floor of Academic Services Building. From Seventh Street, turn onto West Campus Drive, look for the second building on your right, on the other side of the Library. See map at http://daf.csulb.edu/maps/img/maps/2007.gif section
San Antonio Thursday November 15, 2007... 7 pm
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), and Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe).Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
922 San Pedro, just north of downtown San Antonio
Directions: http://esperanzacenter.org/somoswherearewe.htm
Admission $5. mas o menos, more or less.
Austin, Texas
Tuesday November 13 ... 7 pmWomen Healers: Transformative Shamanic Arts
Before any university gave out the first M.D. degree, there were the women who healed: the herbalists, witches, shamans, curanderas and medicine women. They pop up occasionally in literature and, more ominously, in witch trials, but what do we really know about them? A lot, as it turns out, if you know where to look and are ready to dig deep... An brilliant international array of female healers and wisewomen.
Chris Dougherty Arts Center
1110 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas.$12 at the door, $5 for students with ID. Advance tickets $10 at Book Woman, 12th and Lamar. Sponsored by Austin Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess, Isis Institute of Women's Studies, Book Woman, SA Circle of RCG. Information: 636-5781.
In southern California:
Friday Nov 30, 7:30 pm
The Canaanite and Hebrew Goddess
"We shall burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, and shall pour her libations
as we used to do... in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem." -- Book of Jeremiah
Before Sophia, came Khokhmah, and even before, there was Asherah, "mother of the gods." A continuous stream of Goddess icons flowed for 9000 years at the wellspring of Judaism (and later, Christianity). We will look at stone and clay figurines from the oldest neolithic era, as well as Asherah, "progenetrix of the gods," pillar goddesses, "Ashtart the horned," Qudsu, vulva amulets, serpent vessels, and Tree of Life ivories. We'll see Judaic inscriptions pairing the Goddess Asherah with the God of scripture, and highlight biblical references to Goddess veneration among the ancient Jews.Learn about the spiritual foundation that preceded classic Judaism, Christianity and Islam...The Goddess Temple of Orange County 17905 Sky Park Circle, #A Irvine, CA 92614
Everyone welcome. $15 - 25. sliding scale.Directions to the Temple: http://www.goddesstempleoforangecounty.com/directions.html
Tuesday, December 4, 12:30 pm (noon)
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).Karl Anatol Center, California State University at Long Beach
Sponsored by Women's Studies Department at Cal State University - Long Beach. Free admission, all are welcome.Directions: Anatol Center is at the south end of campusm on the 1st floor of Academic Services Building. From Seventh Street, turn onto West Campus Drive, look for the second building on your right, on the other side of the Library. See map at http://daf.csulb.edu/maps/img/maps/2007.gif section, where event location is labeled AS)
Saturday October 5, 3 pmNeith, the Weaver
Max Dashu goes in depth about this very ancient Mother of the Neteru ("gods"), her litanies and images, and looks at the mysteries of weaving in a global context.
Featured presentation at the Convocation of the Temple of Isis & Fellowship of Isis
Isis Oasis 20889 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville CA 95441.For more information and to register for the Convocation, contact isis@isisoasis.org or 1-800-6679-7387
OCTOBER SERIES ON THE EUROPEAN WITCH TRADITION AND ITS REPRESSION:
Friday October 12, 7:30 pm
The Old Goddess and her night-flying witches
Fatas, faeries, and the “good women who go by night” with the Old Goddess, as Holle, Diana, Holle, Abundia, Andra Mari, or Fraw Perchta. A rich visual exploration of how Goddess paganism persisted in medieval Europe, from Fatas, Norns and Weird Sisters to faerie godmothers, and from Eorthan Moder suckling serpents to Herodiade and the shamanic myth of the witches' flight in the 9th century and after.Redwood Gardens Community Room 2951 Derby Street, Berkeley 94705 (several blocks east of College)
$10-20. sliding scale. Low-income pay as able. All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible.
Friday October 26, 7:30 pm
Witch Hunts
How 1000 years of burning, torture, and terror attacked women's spheres of power, dismantled European folk culture, & imposed diabolist doctrine as the ideology of European world conquest. Witch hunts have become a metaphor (McCarthyism, Stalinist purges...) without their own significance ever having been digested. The witch craze had a profound impact on European women's status, excluding them from religious leadership, medicine, and other professions, stigmatizing old women, sexualizing torture, and placing new limits on female speech, movement, action, and resistance. The torture-trials not only inculcated negative stereotypes of females, but also defined non-christians and dark peoples as devil-worshippers, and exported religious persecution to colonized countries.
Studio of Briana Kaufmann. Pre-register for location (in Emeryville) and to assure a seat, at 510-655-1592 or email to contact@brianakaufmann.com.
$10-20. sliding scale. Low income pay as able. Sorry, this venue is not wheelchair accessible. Second floor.
Saturday October 27, 7:30 pm
Witches and Pagans
The Fates I fathom, yet farther I see / See far and wide the worlds around ---the Völuspá, Icelandic Edda
As All Hallows approaches, we honor the ancestors and spiritual heritages of pagan Europe. This show looks at ancient European priestesses, wisewomen, healers, herbalists, seers, diviners, enchantresses and nightfarers, and how these powers and skills are reflected in the original ethnic names for "witch." We go into women's sacraments of spinning, weaving, herbcraft, divination, sacred dance and incantation, and many instances of how female spiritual leadership and professions survived the witch hunts.Redwood Gardens Community Room 2951 Derby Street, Berkeley 94705 (several blocks east of College)
$10-20. sliding scale. Low-income pay as able. All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible.
A Two-Part Series in September (Emeryville, California)
Friday September 7
Woman Shaman Part OneDrummers, dreamers, diviners, healers and medicine women around the world.
Woman is by nature a shaman, says a Chukchee proverb from Siberia, and many traditions say that the first shaman was female. Max presents what is probably the most comprehensive visual record of female shamanic traditions worldwide, from ancient times to the present: women as invokers, drummers, and dreamers, oracles and diviners, ecstatic dancers, shapeshifters, and spirit-riders. This is a chance to taste primordial wisdom and to water your visionary dreamscape with long-obscured riches from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Pacifica. We are going to take a more leisurely pace with this show, with plenty of time for questions and discussion.Studio of Briana Kaufmann and Peter Neufeld.
Pre-register for location (in Emeryville) and to assure a seat, at 510-655-1592 or email to contact@brianakaufmann.com.$10-20. sliding scale. Low income pay as able.
Friday September 28
Woman Shaman Part TwoWhile Part One looks at ancient history, healers, and shamanic ecstasy internationally, this section will offer an in-depth look at regional traditions in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Pacifica.
Studio of Briana Kaufmann and Peter Neufeld.
Pre-register for location (in Emeryville) and to assure a seat, at 510-655-1592
or email to contact@brianakaufmann.com.$10-20. sliding scale. Low income pay as able.
Two events in Southern California:
Friday, August 17, 7:30 pm
Mother-Right and Gender Justice
Humanity is not doomed to inequal and exploitative gender relations. Other models exist! for women and for men. This international slideshow reveals the egalitarian gender politics of indigenous mother-right cultures. This is not patriarchy in reverse, but an entirely different paradigm. Not a utopian fantasy, but living proof that people can live in peace and harmony. We'll look at aboriginal cultures in Niger, Yunnan, Ontario, Surinam, Vietnam, Micronesia, India and New Mexico, and explore the implications that mother-right cultures hold for a future of gender equality.The Goddess Temple of Orange County 17905 Sky Park Circle, #A Irvine, CA 92614
Everyone welcome. $15 - 25. sliding scale.Directions to the Temple: http://www.goddesstempleoforangecounty.com/directions.html
Sunday, August 19, 1:30-5 pm
Priestesses
I count the grains of sand on the beach and measure the sea.
I understand the speech of the mute and hear the voiceless.
---Oracle of Delphi, in Herodotus I, 47
Max Dashu returns with an inspirational view of the long-buried heritage of holy women, ritual leaders and temple mothers. An illuminating voyage through ancient art and modern photos of priestesses performing sacraments. How women create sacred space: historic sanctuaries and living traditions of female spiritual leadership in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Pacific Islands. We will culminate with a series of empowering incantations to reclaim our powers as women in ceremony.
An event for women. $15-25 sliding scale.The Goddess Temple of Orange County 17905 Sky Park Circle, #A Irvine, CA 92614
Everyone welcome. $15 - 25. sliding scale.Directions to the Temple: http://www.goddesstempleoforangecounty.com/directions.html
July 30-Aug 5 ... at Goddess Conference in Glastonbury, England
Tuesday, July 31
Woman Shaman: Reconnecting with Our Source (all-day intensive)
Woman is by nature a shaman, says a Chukchee proverb from Siberia, and many traditions say that the first shaman was female. Max presents what is probably the most comprehensive visual record of female shamanic traditions worldwide, from ancient times to the present: women as invokers, drummers, and dreamers, oracles and diviners, ecstatic dancers, shapeshifters, and spirit-riders. This is a chance to taste primordial wisdom and to water your visionary dreamscape with long-obscured riches. Empowered by attunement to the ancient heritages, we will cast off old constraints and reach for the deep Source through consecration, incantation, and movement.
Thursday, August 2 at 2:30 to 5:30
Icons of the Matrix
Primeval art shows deep continuities across time and space, centered on the Sacred Female. We'll survey her recurring symbols and patterns in world archaeology: matrikas ("female figurines"), vulva stones, ancestral megaliths, ceremonial breastpots and motherpots. All these offer a window into the ritual culture of the ancients: their icons, altars, invocatory movements, body-painting, libations and other sacraments. British premiere.
Saturday, August 4 (morning)
The Old Goddess of the Witches
Fatas, faeries, and the “good women who go by night” with the Old Goddess, as Holle, Diana, Holle, Abundia, Andra Mari, or Fraw Perchta. A rich visual exploration of how Goddess paganism persisted in medieval Europe, from Fatas, Norns and Weird Sisters to faerie godmothers, and from Eorthan Moder suckling serpents to Herodiade and the shamanic myth of the witches' flight in the 9th century and after.
For more information on the Goddess Conference and to register visit www.goddessconference.com
