Background
Merlin Stone was born in Brooklyn, New New York
( Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the r...)
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status. Index; maps and illustrations.
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Merlin Stone was born in Brooklyn, New New York
She is best known for her book She became interested in archaeology and ancient religions from her study of ancient art She taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
From 1958 to 1967 she worked as a sculptor, exhibiting widely and executing numerous commissions.
She spent a decade on research before writing the book published in the United Kingdom as The Paradise Papers and then in the United States. as (1976). Her theory builds on the ideas of Robert Graves.
Rather than starting from his work, however, she gathered material from the "libraries, museums, universities, and excavation sites of the United States, Europe and the Near East." She observed within these materials "the sexual and religious bias of many of the erudite scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." She challenges many of their conclusions, thus raising doubts about the criticisms of Robert Graves" theories. Her other major work, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, collects stories, myths, and prayers involving goddess-figures from a wide variety of world religions, ancient and otherwise.
Stone"s hypotheses are radical and challenging to the accepted views of antiquity.
She is the author of numerous short stories, book reviews, and essays, including 3,000 Years of Racism. Stone"s book had a profound effect on the emerging Goddess Culture of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States.
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