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THE PROBLEM WITHE PAGAN OR NEOPAGANS

did marija gimbutas ever credit africa for her AURIGNACIAN finds?

or was she a 'white' supremacist?

UCLA archaeologist Marija Gimbutas turned historical scholarship on its head in the '70s and 80s with research that depicted peace-loving, co-operation-based Goddess-worshipping societies in ancient Europe-- which were overrun in the Neolithic era by Indo-Europeans who imposed patriarchal order. Gimbutas' vision of an earth-friendly, feminine-centered spirituality has sparked religious awakening; an estimated 400,000 Americans now declare themselves neopagans, and many more with feminist or environmentalist leanings are helping revive Goddess worship."

Marija Gimbutas, the late Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at UCLA and author of the ground-breaking book on Neolithic religion, The Language of the Goddess, also chose to place her research materials at the Pacifica campus. She based her work on archaeological artifacts, linguistics, ethnography, and folklore in order to support her thesis that the European prehistoric culture was female-centered and worshiped a Mother Goddess as giver of all life. Her discoveries have taken on great symbolic importance for feminist theologians who found in her vision of a peaceful, egalitarian, nature-revering society a sense of hope for the future based on this foundation in the distant past.
Gimbutas' library includes an extensive collection on archaeology, as well as numerous volumes about religion, anthropology, linguistics, mythology, folklore, and art. Lecture notes from her years of teaching, figurines from her personal collection, and manuscripts of her articles and books which include: The Balts, The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, and The Civilization of the Goddess, as well as a vast collection of the professor's photographs of prehistoric sacred figures, are also included in the collection.

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