Return of the Goddess, Marija Gimbutas, Ph.D.
Return of the Goddess, Marija Gimbutas, Ph.D.
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Return of the Goddess

Author: Marija Gimbutas, Ph.D.

Narrator: Michael Toms

Unabridged: 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/08/1989


Synopsis

Almost single-handedly, through her excavations and discovery of artifacts and remnants from European cultures predating both Egyptian and Greek civilization, the late Marija Gimbutas revamped both history and the field of archaeology. Here she speaks about the thousands of Goddess-related figurines she unearthed, pointing to the existence of peaceful European cultures that existed for millennia prior to 1500 B.C.E.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve

As I said before I found this tpb along with its predecessor at a used book shop. In great condition though it is a 4th printing as well. This is set in a more modern time then the previous volume, though Dawn would be timeless. It starts out with two witches in the woods performing a ceremony of som......more

Goodreads review by Joshua

Lisner is an incredible artist, but he has no business writing stories. this was just a mess. Beautiful, but a mess.......more

First, I will start by saying that I am going to post this same review for two of the Dawn collections, because I think my thoughts on the pieces as a whole are interconnected. As a comic fan in the 90s, I, like a lot of readers, noticed the “bad girl” comics explosion, in which busy girls were used......more

Not nearly as good as the first story arc. The artwork is still good, but this story lacked the same wonderful post-apocalyptic human elements from Lucifer's Halo. In general, I was not as interested in the predominantly female cast of characters and the idea of witches in this book. It had conflict......more

Goodreads review by Keith

Linsner returns to his Dawn character with a slightly more action/adventure plot, but it is still full of sort of Joseph Campbellish syncretizing of elements from multiple mythological systems. It can get a little hard to follow if you are not a mythology buff or into wiccan stuff, but it does not g......more