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WOMANITY
Welcome to the Womanity course
What we'll be up to in 2025
April: Ceramic Scriptures of Signs recording (94:26)
May Discussion: historical patriarchalization (42:14)
June: The Wisdom of Mother Law (90:40)
July zoom on Diabolism: Ideologies of Domination (91:54)
August: Invocation and Litanies
September: Ancient Britain
Titles below not necessarily in chronological order
October: Live Discussion on Witches and Witch Hunts
Ancient China webcast
Totonacapan and Téenik (Eastern Mexico) webcast
Ancient Colombia / Ecuador webcast
Ancient China
Oldest archaeology in China
Introduction on Wu, Dao, and Xüan Nü
The Wu: Female Shamans of Ancient China (article excerpts)
Wu Aspects of Xi Wangmu
New Insights on Wu and Dao from Benebell Wen
On the "Dark Woman" / Xuan Nü
Wu Xing: Five Elements : the Chinese Concordance
Medicine women, in many forms
La Curandera
María la Curandera
Curandera tradicional de Villa Talea de Castro, Oaxaca
Nana Wendy Hubert, Yindjibarndi carrier of Burndut "Mother's Lore"
Algerian diviner
Nishan Shaman, the great Manchu healer (and female rebel)
Florence Jones, Winnemem Wintu, spiritual leader and healer
Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu, ceremonial leader and healer
Anishinaabe Medicine Women in Michigan
Aztec diviner-healer of soul loss
Female shamans as sheros in Turkic epics
Serbian healer with spinning magic
Matricultures
Ancestral Mothers Murals and Reliefs: Germany, Sudan, Nigeria, India
Ancestral Mother pillars and house entry ladders, Vietnam
Breasted Doors of Timor, Tavu Icons of Tanimbar
Longhouses of the Minangkabau, western Sumatra
"Stone Foundation" matriarchs in Tokelau, South Pasifika
Remnants of Toda matrilineage, SW India
Ancestral Mothers on Adivasi houses, India
Land Back Matriarchy Back (Cree)
Zenu motherlines in Colombia (preview)
Genome evidence of neolithic matrilineage in Fujia, NE China
Neolithic Longhouses in Central Europe
DNA shows Çatalhöyük was matrilocal (and possibly ML)
Without a Whisper: KONNON:KWE (film on Haudenosaunee women)
Matricultures overview
Palau called "one of the last matriarchies"
Luli Altars of the Maluku Islands, far eastern Indonesia
Matricultures and the Matrix of Life: interview
Matriculture, Shamanism, and the Authority of Women
woman on birth chair, ancient Iraq
Chauvet cave best view
"Europe's Last Matriarchy" on Kihnu Island, Estonia
Incantations and Fragments
Peace chant of the Morrigan
Chant to the Boa and female power of Yube Nawa Ãibu
Algonquin Water Song and Water Protectors
Somali divinatory incantation
Invocation of Mariamma, South India
La Respuesta: Andean song for Pachamama
Song to Adi Parashakti (Primal Supreme Power as Mother)
The bean chaointe: keening woman and lamentation of the dead in Ireland
Yandé Codou Sène, eminent Sereer griot
Beautiful incantation of Heart Sutra / Prajñaparamita
Ashé lamentations during a genocide in Paraguay
Kali Dhuun chant
Carnatic litanies by Subbulakshmi; Bombay Sisters
Sakha olonkho praising Mother Goddess and Tree of Life
Lukutun Invocation of the Mapuche, Chile
Joanne Shenandoah: Lifegivers (Oneida singer)
Charge of the Goddess, by Doreen Valiente, and other pagan litanies
Praisesongs of Lucumí / Santería / Candomblé: African Diaspora
Icaros (medicine songs), Peru
Doctoring songs of Essie Parrish, Kashaya Pomo medicine woman
Aretalogies of Isis
Egyptian Hymns to Isis
Inanna
Praise songs of Ishtar
Sri Lalita Sahasranama: 1000 Names of Goddess
Divine Names from Judaic tradition
Mesopotamia: various Divine Names
Cailleach Beinne Bhric: Scottish faery croon.
Gula Gula, Saami lament for the Earth, Mari Boinne
Travnice from Slovakia
South Africa incantations
Incantation in Yiddish
Goddéesse and Ancestral Women
The Meanings of Goddess
Old Woman of the Spring: Cheyenne
Cypriot birther figurine
Yebá Buró, Great-Great-Grandmother of the World, Desana, NW Amazon
Nanshe, Sumerian goddess of wisdom, divination, and social justice
Diana Lucifera in Britain
Not a goddess! wrong readings of sex in iconography
Ninkhursag and Sumerian genealogy of deities
Stone figurines from Gürcütepe excavation
F icons Mehrgarh, Pakistan / Gonur Tepe, Turkmenistan (6:26)
Historical Processes of Patriarchalization
Commentary on "Enthrone, dethrone, rethrone" article by S. Cvecek
Videos about Patriarchy
Debunking male dominance theories about early humans
Peggy Sanday on Matriarchy and on Minangkabau
Repeat: Judaea Capta, Shlomtzion, and the Female Icons of Beit Nattif
Polygyny in Cameroon; and unusual ML male primogeniture
Slavery as reproductive colonization of women: Nuzi, Lullubi, and Hebrews
South American Legends of Patriarchal Takeover
Racism versus feminist principles
Remnants of Female Chiefs in Maewo Island, Vanuatu
"MeToo-potamia (systemic gender inequality in Mesopotamia"
Iranian rape porn (trigger warning)
Kingship, class, patriarchy in Mesopotamia
Sumerian conquest lamentations
Removing patriarchy from historical discourse
Women philosophers, recognized or not
It wasn't Voltaire who said it, but Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Violeta Parra, Chilean songwriter, folklorist, artist, activist
Hypatía of Alexandria
Valiant Women
Haitian rebels
Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, defender of Wales
Eliza Nolden, activist in Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Sudanese women under seige
Women as providers
Jaha Dukureh's fight to Female Genital Excision and Infibulation in Gambia
Ninkhursag and Sumerian genealogy of deities
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