Webinar: Ancient Motherlines

Are famous Greek goddesses like Hera, Demeter and Aphrodite her descendents? What kinds of rituals, practices and myths were associated with her worship, and how long did they survive in Europe? Is there an alternate history of Europe that we can tell by following motherlines like these, instead of the fatherlines we are used to hearing about? And how is the wild, ecstatic god Dionysus connected to her, and to the memory of the matrilineal Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe?

Together, Sylvia and Chiara will discuss their individual but overlapping research on these topics for the first time in a public online conversation. You will come away with a deeper understanding of the history of the Goddess in Europe, and of the patterns of being beyond patriarchy that still exist, just out of sight, in her lands.