(Photo Essay 1) Goddess Pilgrimage 2018 by Kaalii Cargill

[Author’s Note: In May 2018, I set out on a 3 month pilgrimage to Greece, Turkey and the prehistory sites of “Old Europe”. Once again my main focus was “visiting with the Grandmothers”.]

GREECE 

Ancient Greece is even more ancient than many people realise – prehistory settlements date from the 7th Millennium BCE. The Minoan people (2700 – 1420 BCE) created art, music, symbolic images and, most significantly for the current era, lived without signs of warfare. Many of the symbolic images continued into the Mycenaean era (1600 – 1100 BCE), with Mother Goddess represented using the same symbols as found in Anatolian settlements such as Çatalhöyük (7500-5700 BCE). The iconic image from Crete and Mycenae of of a standing figure with raised arms is strikingly similar to a figure found in a cave at Geissenklösterle, Germany, dating to 35,000-32,000 BCE.

Psi type figurines (raised arms), 1300 – 1180 BCE, Gortsoulia (Mycenae)
1300 – 1180 BCE, Zygouries.

 

 

 

 

35,000 – 32,000 BCE, ivory bas-relief found in Southern Germany.

 

 

1300 – 1180 BCE, Mycenae area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5750 BCE, seated figure with leopards, Çatalhöyük, Anatolai.
1425 – 1340 BCE, reconstruction of seal, Knossos, Crete.
“Lion Gate”, Mycenae – two lionesses stand with front paws on a central pillar, an image similar to the Minoan seal found at Knossos and reminiscent of the seated Mother Goddess figure from Çatalhöyük. The pillar between the lionesses originally represented Mother (or mountain) Goddess, and was later changed to represent the Mycenean kings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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