Sunday, March 30, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ
Weaving a Matrix of Community Across Time: the deep history and lived expressions of the Great Goddess Tanit and her Sister Goddesses
This panel discusses the Carthaginian Tanit, Ugaritic Anat, Greek Athena (Mycenaean Greek A-ta-na), Egyptian Neith, and Sumerian Inanna as Goddesses related not only in function but also linguistically, shown in translations of texts and iconographically. Athena, a sister Goddess to Tanit, and her function of weaving, are viewed from a depth psychological view as well. Finally, Tanit is discussed as a Goddess whose images support a clothesline in a lived ritual of renewal, linking the Motherline through time.
Miriam Robbins Dexter holds a Ph.D. in ancient Indo-European Studies from UCLA. Her books include Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book (1990); Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia (2010, with Victor Mair) (2012 ASWM Sarasvati award); and Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement: Elders and Visionaries (2015, with Vicki Noble) (Susan Koppelman award, 2016). Miriam is the author of over thirty scholarly articles and nine encyclopedia articles on ancient female figures, and she has edited and co-edited sixteen scholarly volumes. For thirteen years, she taught courses in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit languages in the department of Classics at USC. For the following sixteen years, she taught courses in comparative myth at UCLA.
Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is a Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program. Her areas of study include Greek mythology, archetypal psychology, astrology, and goddess traditions. For years she was Curator of the Marija Gimbutas manuscript collections at Opus Archives. Safron is author of The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology (2021), co-editor of Jung on Astrology (2017) and editor of Joseph Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013).
Mary Beth Moser, Ph.D., has traveled widely in Italy to study women’s spirituality, with a focus on women and folk wisdom in Trentino. This presentation draws from study pilgrimages to Sicily and Sardegna with Dr. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, professor emerita at CIIS, and from “The Motherline: Laundry, Lunedi, and Women’s Lineage” in She Is Everywhere, Volume 3, which Mary Beth co-edited, and whose anthology series Lucia founded.
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