![]() ![]() Gimbutas's theories are sprinkled liberally throughout a growing literature about goddess-based religion. It is a thesis that has made the 68-year-old professor of archeology at the University of California at Los Angeles a heroine among many feminist social critics and religious thinkers and a controversial figure, to say the least, among her colleagues. Then, about 6,000 years ago, this Old European culture, in which the two sexes lived in harmony with one another and with nature, was shattered by patriarchal invaders who installed their warlike gods in place of the life-generating Great Goddess. It was during the Stone Age, she says, when goddesses were worshiped and societies were centered on women. MARIJA Gimbutas is an eminent archeologist who says she believes the world once lived in peace. ![]()
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