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The Goddess religion since ancient times.
My grandmother and greatgrandmother did tell me
many things
about the Goddess religion.
My greatgrandmother saw the Goddess religion
still as a reality.
She had been involved herself in younger years
and told of experiences of her own life.
My grandmother only knew from stories and
hearsay of neighbours in her youth.
The things they told me were remarkably in the
same line as the
scientific archaeological results of hundreds
of excavations
in Goddess centres by professor Marijah
Gimbutas.
The University of California has published the
book "The Goddesses and Gods
of Old Europe" with the results of
intensive research in many places of the
Goddess civilization, which Prof Gimbutas calls
"Old Europe".
In this book the Goddess religion
comes forward as the Goddess civilization
undisturbed and peaceful
from 9000BC until 3200BC.
The Minoan civilization of Crete and Mycene and
Cyprus
was a direct branch of the Goddess
civilization.
Directly after the melting of the Ice Caps in
Europe,
the Goddess religion emerges in Ukraine,
Moldavia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia,
Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Bulgaria.
Cities arise with Goddess sanctuaries.
From 5300BC writings are known
although symbolic writing is known even from
befroe the
Ice Age, so form 300,000BC.
Prog Gimbutas recognizes about 150 characters
in which the language
of the Goddess has been written.
She also recognizes the similarity with the
Ancient Cyprus languages.
There are impressive similarities between the
characters of Old Europe
and the earliest ways of writing in
hieroglyphs.
See the special page upon this identification between
Old Europe characters and hieroglyphs.
Writings have been found in:
Dikilitash near Philipi, Greece dating 4500BC
Gradesnica near Vraca, Bulgaria 5000BC
Vinca, Serbia, 6000BC
Tartaria, Romania, 5300BC
Sukoro Toradulo, Hungary, 5000BC
The climate from 7000BC until 3000BC was much
warmer then it is now.
So harvests and agriculture were enriching the
area.
Also life outside the house was more normal.
The Goddess was venerated in thousands of
places.
About 130,000 pottery artifacts have been found.
The Goddess with child on her lap is a known
statue from the most ancient times.
So here in Old Europe this statue is known
thousands of years earlier then
in ancient Egypt or Sumeria, Babylon.
The Goddess is visualized in several ways:
as a woman Goddess
as a pregnant woman Goddess
as a Goddess of Frogs, called AA, this could be
the M of Mary.
as a Goddess shaped with bird features, called
A, so likely Anne.
The Snake was a holy animal of the Goddess.
This is also found in the Old Testament where
Moses brings the Holy Snake
among the people and for 600 years the Holy
Snake is placed
in the tent temple and later in the stone
temple.
The Goddess religion is also using the cross
symbol.
The meaning of the cross symbol is the
fulfillment of the universe,
the four corners of the universe are stretching
unto the edges.
The cross symbol is also used in combination
with the moon crescent
and the bull horns.
Also the head of a bull with the moon between
its horns.
The male counterparts of the Goddess are two:
1. the God with the stiff penis,
2. the painfull God with sorrow and pain.
1. Although these ancient times are prehistoric
and without translated
writings, there are so many explicit images
that it is sure, that the God with the stiff
penis in later times
became the Dionysus figure.
The name Dionysos is much more ancient then the
Greek civilization.
There are also strong relations with the
Orpheus religion.
Orpheus is depicted as Christ by the ancient
Christians.
See
the special page about this subject.
There are two explanations for
the name Dionysos in the scientific literature:
Dio nysos: God of (the city)
Nysos
Nysos would be the name of
an unknown ancient city of the
Goddess civilization.
or
Dion ysos: Lord Jesous
This would mean that the Greek
name "Jesous"
for Jesus is an ancient title of
the Goddess religion.
2. The God of sorrow and pain is an explicit
series of images
from every age and place in the Goddess
civilization.
This emphasises the relationship with ancient
Egypt
and with ancient Christianity.
The suffering God is certainly a major element
of Christianity.
The priests and priestesses were masked.
Masks are depicted on many images and even the
holes for the ropes are visible.
There are animal masks and dramatic masks.
A priestess with an animal mask surely also
draws a line to the much later ancient Egypt,
where human figures with animal faces were many
times depicted.
Also the Hathor priestesses were masked with
cow horns and the moon.
In the much later Greek civilization masks
became theatrical elements.
In Thracian Bulgaria masks played an important
role,
also with the royal families and in battle.
Famous are the Thracian warriors with golden
masks in the Ilias of Homeros.
Holy animals were for thousands of years:
domesticated dog (7000BC!)
bear
some water bird
salmon
honey bee
bull (the goddess and the priestesses were
wearing bull horns)
butterfly (much later evolving into the double
axe)
with the butterfly there was also attention for
the caterpillar.
The Goddess religion was peaceful until the
invasions started of the
male god adherents from the East, probably from
the North of Persia.
Three times the Goddess religion was invaded by
Indo-European tribes
and the Goddess was more and more suppressed by
male war gods.
Much later this is repeated in the Old
Testament when the Goddess religion
of Moses, Aaron and Miriam is destroyed by the
people coming out of exile
around 630 BC.
The temples are burned, the Holy Snake is
destroyed,
the holy Bulls are burned, the so-called
Heights are taken away.
Again the same is repeated in the re-writing of
the New Testament
around the year 350AD when God the Mother is
written out of the scriptures
and every aspect of ancient Christianity is
erased.
The line of history becomes clear like a golden
thread:
-the most ancient civilization in the world is
the Goddess civilization
in the South West area of Europe: 9000-3000BC
-the Goddess attacked by male war gods from
3500BC until 630BC
Gradually the Goddess civilization is
retreating
into other ways of religion:
the Hathor
religion and Amon-Mut-Khontu
in ancient Egypt;
the Dionysos and Orpheus
religion in Bulgaria and Macedonia;
the religion of Jana and Janus in
Western Europe.
Through ancient Egypt the golden line of
history is kept unbroken into
the peaceful and loving Christian religion,
where the suffering God is dying for
redemption,
where God the Mother is caring for her
children.
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2011
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