The Arts

It is our intention to give visual arts a place of importance at the table wherever women and myth are under discussion.  Often "scholarship" is served through publications and conferences and e-lists; all are necessary, and all dependent on  the printed word.  Images reach us in different ways, and are equally necessary in changing the …

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Mythic Images

Under Construction. This is the place for our favorite mythic images--artifacts, art, and sacred sites--from members' photo collections.   Our Girls in Büyükdere (three Neolithic Anatolian goddess figures from the Sadberk Hanim Museum outside of Istanbul),  shared by Sid Reger from a visit to Turkey in 2006.  I haven't seen a detailed discussion of these three …

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Myth in Living Rituals

In addition to traditional visual and performing arts, goddess mythology inspires rituals around the world.  This is the place to post images and descriptions of our own rituals or ones that we have witnessed, and to discuss how goddess myths find their way into living traditions.  And--please DON'T TAKE these images.  They are considered the …

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2023 Film Discussion: “Give Light: Stories from Indigenous Midwives” (Video)

DISCUSSION of film by Steph Smith: Indigenous midwives from five continents relate their life stories and discuss the joys and challenges of their profession, interwoven with testimony from medical anthropologists, historians and Western midwives and doulas..

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