WOMANITY

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Womanity, full blast The 2025 course includes:

Photo essays, articles and videos on archaeological finds, cultural treasures, historical analysis.
Audio commentaries
Monthly Webcasts:
  • Ceramic Scriptures of Signs
  • Diabolism: Ideology of Conquest ("Their religion is devil-worship")
  • Ancient Colombia / Ecuador
  • Ancient Iberia (Spain)
  • Ancient China
  • Totonacapan and Téenik (Eastern Mexico)
  • Ethiopia
  • (plus live topical discussions; maybe an "Ask me anything")

New excerpts from my books (first, "When They Smashed the Goddesses: Cultural Repression and Resistance" from Magna Mater, Paulianity and the Imperial Church, with attention to authoritarian regimes and state religion. Later this year, excerpts from (the unpublished) Women's Power in Greek Patriarchy)

Occasional discussions on the Veleda e-group, where I also post links to upcoming zoomcasts and other course info. Subscribers will receive an invitation to join.
We'll continue our survey of matricultural societies and the historical process of patriarchalization and colonization, cultural syncretism and preservation, female spheres of power, and resistance.

I've found a new source with high quality information on the Wu and their intersection with Daoist ceremony and inner work, and will be sharing and commenting on that.


We'll be looking at archaeology in eastern and western Mexico (rather than the usual emphasis on Maya country and the central plateau)


And there will be much more!


Course Curriculum


  Welcome to the Womanity course
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  The Wu, Xi Wangmu, and the "Dark Woman" in Daoist Philosophy
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  Medicine women, in many forms
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  Incantations and Fragments
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Your Instructor


Max Dashu
Max Dashu

Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history and heritages from the most ancient times to the present, globally. www.suppressedhistories.net She is internationally known for her expertise on iconography, matricultures and female spheres of power; medicine women, witches, and the witch hunts; and the interconnections between patriarchy, conquest, and systems of domination.

She is the author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100 (2016) and Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides (2023). Her unfolding open access book, Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church (2024-25) looks at the origins of church-state authoritarianism and persecution. Her videos include Woman Shaman: the Ancients (2013) and Women’s Power in Global Perspective (2008), along with an extensive videography at https://www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/videos

Max blogs daily on the Suppressed Histories Facebook page, followed by 254,000 people internationally. She teaches online courses and visual webcasts, and has guest-lectured at scores of universities and international conferences.


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