![]() Still, it is hard to deny that if her work is taken seriously, this is precisely what others will be inspired to do.įor me the most interesting part of this book is the new information about rituals connected to spinning and weaving. Dashu herself is the first to admit that she has not yet put all the pieces together into a new comprehensive her-story of Europe. The sheer number of facts and suggestions of facts is overwhelming. Reading this book is like opening a box filled with jewels left to you by ancestors you never knew you had. ![]() Using these clues, Dashu provides intriguing new readings of the Poetic Edda and Norse sagas. To paraphrase Shakespeare: “Methinks the cleric doth protest too much.” Were these things not happening and happening often, there would have been no need to condemn them. Clerics rage against people-particularly women–who continue to visit holy wells and sacred trees and to practice divination and healing rituals invoking pagan powers. ![]() Combing artistic and archaeological records, Dashu finds (to give one example) that images of Mother Earth nursing a snake are far from uncommon and can even be found as illustrations in Christian documents and on Christian monuments. ![]() These men may have wanted to believe that their views were widely held, but Dashu suggests that they were not. ![]() History has been written by the victors-in the case of Europe by elite Christian men. ![]()
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