Secret History of the Witches: Part III
Course Background Info and FAQ
Ideas for discussion: Spheres of spiritual culture
Where to Subscribe or Resubscribe
How to Do Research Online (tips that may be useful)
Veleda Logs for this course
(includes posts from Part I, 2009-10)
How webinars work
(Important: ignore reference to payment: all course webcasts are covered by your course subscription. I will also be offering non-course webinars, such as Rebel Shamans: Women Confront Empire, within the time frame of this course. You are of course invited to participate in them! These require separate payment, per webcast)
Book Outline for Secret History of the Witches
Short video describing Part I and II of the course
Readings from Spiritual Heritages Part I
(Megalithic Europe, Crete, Aegean, Greece, Spain, Portugal)
Oracular Priestesses: the Pythia of Delphi, Black Doves of Dodona, the Melissae, Didyma priestesses, snake oracles, and other prophetic women.
Visual resources from Part I: (most have chains of links from page bottom). There are more of these image pages posted in Veleda logs:
Female Statue Menhirs in Europe
Cretan Goddess Seals, Snake Dancers, Orantes and Figurines
Cretan Frescos (more pages linked from bottom of pages)...
Snake Tubes in Crete, Canaan, and Nubia
Mycenaean Goddess, Gorgons, Archaic Hera...
Ecstatic Dancers, Lady of the Animals, Ortheia of Sparta...
The Libyan Connection and Prehistoric Greece, 800-650 BCE
Thetis and demotion of Goddess
Artemis Ephesia, Asiatic Pillar Goddess, the Feline-Throned...
Thracian Goddesses, Deer-Rhytons, Bendis, and Priestesses
Romanian Goddess: Altarpieces, Engraved Gemstones, Patera
Commentaries:
Commentary on Lisa Maurizio Article
Married women barred from Artemesion