From the Realm of Ancestors [Illustrated] [Paperback]

The book is divided into three sectons:

PART ONE: REMEMBERING A GREAT WOMAN OF SCIENCE

The Circle is Unbroken: A Brief Biography by Joan Marler, MA Director, Institute of Archaeomythology Sebastopol, CA;

Marija Gimbutas in My Life: Some Reminiscences by Gintautas Cesnys, Ph.D. Dean, Medical Faculty, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania;

Marija Gimbutas and the Archaeology of the Balts by Adomas Butrimas, Ph.D. Pro-Rector, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania;

Bright Shards: Recollecting Marija Gimbutas by Joan Sutherland, Occidental, CA;

Tea with Marija, poem by Starr Goode, Santa Monica, CA;

Marija Gimbutas and the King’s Archaeologist by Naomi Goldenberg, Ph.D. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;

The Gimbutas Gift by Michael Dames, Birmingham, England.

PART TWO: DEEPENING THE DISCIPLINES

I. ARCHAEOLOGY

Did Anatolia Contribute to the Neolithization of Southeast Europe? by Jak Yakar, Ph.D., Director, Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;

The Earliest Indo-Europeanization of the North Balkan Area in Light of a New Investigation in the Upper Thracian Valley by Nicolai Merpert, Ph.D., Director, Foreign Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;

Linkardstown Type Burials, their Pots, and their Antecedents by Karlene Jones-Bley, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, CA;

II. Genetics, Linguistics, Indo-European Studies

Genetic Evidence Supporting Marija Gimbutas’ Work on the Origins of Indo-European People by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, M.D., Professor Emeritis, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA;

Marija Gimbutas' Kurgan Hypothesis and Indo-European Studies by Edgar Polomé, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin;

Writing in the Ancient Mediterranean: the Old European Legacy by Harald Haarmann, Ph.D., Helsinki, Finland;

The Indo-Europeanization of Old European Concepts by Wolfgang Meid, Ph.D., University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria;

The Romanian Dolf and the Greek Delphis-Delphys-Delphoi Problem by Adrian Poruciuc, Ph.D., Romanian Institute of Thracian Studies, Bucharest "Al. I. Cuza"University, Iasi, Romania;

Greek Amber by Martin Huld, Ph.D., California State University, Los Angeles, CA.

III. ARCHAEOMYTHOLOGY

An Archaeomythological Approach to the Meaning of Some East Baltic Neolithic Symbols by Indre Antanaitis, M.A. Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania;

Norwegian Rock Art: The Women of Vingen Gro Mandt, Ph.D., University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;

The Blacksmith as "King" in the Necropolis of Varna by Ivan Marazov, Ph.D., Minister of Culture/ Institute of Art History, Sofia, Bulgaria;

The Capestrano Warrior, Marija Gimbutas and the Chinese Merciful Mother by Kristina Berggren, M.A., Swedish Institute of Classical Studies, Rome, Italy;

The Goddess of the Garden in Pompeii by Frances Stahl Bernstein, Ph.D., Bethesda, Maryland.

IV. MYTHOLOGY/FOLKLORE

The Brown Bull of Cooley and Matriliny in Celtic Ireland by Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles CA;

On the Wings of a Dove: Archaeomythology and a new Humanism by Walter Brenneman, Ph.D., University of Vermont at Burlington, VA;

The Cosmic Conflict of Male and Female in Greek Mythology by Nanos Valaoritis, Professor Emeritis, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA;

Clashing Cultures and Hybrid Mythologies Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA;

Sigurd and the Women by Olivier Gouchet, Ph.D., Lycée Pothier, Orleans, France;

The Hindu Goddess Shasthi, Protector of Children and Women by Elinor Gadon,Ph.D. California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA;

Zoomorphic Images in Bulgarian Women’s Ritual Dances in the Context of Old European Symbolism by Anka Ilieva, Ph.D. and Anna Shturbanova, Ph.D., Institute of Folklore, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

PART THREE: EXPANDING THE VISION

I. AN EMERGING PARADIGM

Rediscovering our Past, Reclaiming our Future: Toward a New Paradigm for History by Riane Eisler, J.D. Center for Partnership Studies, Pacific Grove, CA;

Marija Gimbutas and the Change of Paradigm by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA;

Old European Ontology: Unlocking the Quantum Systems Beneath our Dead Sociologies by Artemis March, Ph.D., Cambridge, MA;

Gender-Biased Paradigms in Archaeology Mimi Lobell, Ph.D., Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York;

Implications of Gimbutas’ Theory of Early European Origins for the Transformation of Contemporary Western Civilization by Mara Lynn Keller, Ph.D., Director, Women’s Spirituality Pgm., California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA;

Beyond the Backlash: An Appreciation for the Work of Marija Gimbutas by Charlene Spretnak, Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA;

A Different World: The Challenge of the Work of Marija Gimbutas to the Dominant Worldview of Western Culture by Carol P. Christ, Ph.D., Director, Ariadne Institute, Athens, Greece;

On Forgetting our Divine Origins: The Warning of Dervogilla by Mary Condren, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Feminism and Religion in Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

II. THE ARTISTIC VISION

Titian's Assunta as Hieros Gamos Susan Moulton, Ph.D., Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA;

Over the Earth Bounds a Supernatural Dog by Meinrad Craighead, Albuquerque, New Mexico;

The Artistic Legacy of Marija Gimbutas Gloria Feman Orenstein, Ph.D., University of Southern California

An Unknown Goddess by Christopher Castle Co-Director, Anima Mundi, Richmond, CA.

Rites of Passage in the Realm of the Ancestors by Monica Sjöö, Bristol, England;

III. THE SYMBOLISM OF AN EARTH-BASED SPIRITUALITY

The Upper Paleolithic "Double Goddess": "Venus" Figurines as Sacred Female Transformation Processes in the Light of a Decipherment of European Upper Paleolithic Language by James Harrod, Ph.D., Richmond, Maine;

Temple-tombs and Sculptures in the Shape of the Body of the Great Goddess by Cristina Biaggi, Ph.D., Palisades, NY;

The Minoan Horns of Consecration by Dorothy Cameron, Canberra, Australia;

Marija Gimbutas' Work and the Question of the Sacred by Starhawk, San Francisco, CA;

Legend of the Loaf by Beth Hensperger, Cupertino, CA;

Marija Gimbutas and Metaformic Theory: Women as Creators of Cognitive Ideas by Judy Grahn, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA;

IV. THE POETIC VOICE

Three Poems for Marija by Apara Borrowes Boston, MA;

Prayer by Joan Marler, Sebastopol, CA.

A Conversation in the Desert by Mary Mackey, Ph.D., California State University, Sacramento, CA;

Goddesses, Goddesses: From Archaeology to Poetry of the Feminine by Janine Canan, M.D., Sonoma, CA;

Marija Gimbutas: The March of Courage by Irmelin Munch, Sole, Norway.

V. THE INTERIOR REALM

The Self-Seeding Goddess and the Mysteries of Creativity by Patricia Reis, M.F.A., Richmond, Maine;

Ripe Time: An Inquiry into Gimbutas’ Appeal by Betty De Shong Meador, Ph.D., Berkeley, California;

Marija Gimbutas: Archaeologist of the Feminine Soul by Virginia Beane Rutter, M.A., C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, CA.

AFTERWORD

Standing at the Edge of the World, Vicki Noble in conversation with Joan Marler.

This volume also includes the first publication of the complete bibliography of Marija Gimbutas, compiled by Joan Marler.