New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond - Dylan Michael Burns
The Artifice of Daidalos: Modern Minoica as Religious Focus in Contemporary Paganism
New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond - Dylan Michael Burns
Caroline Jane Tully [+]
University of Melbourne
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Caroline Tully is an archaeologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include religion and ritual in the Aegean Bronze Age, reception of the ancient world, and contemporary Paganisms. She is the author of The Cultic Life of Trees in the Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt and Cyprus (Peeters 2018) and many academic and popular articles.
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This paper examines the representation of Minoan Crete within the feminist Goddess Movement, separatist, feminist, Dianic Witchcraft, and the male-only Minoan Brotherhood. Analysis and critique of the matriarchalist understanding of Minoan material culture by these groups demonstrates that it is interpreted in a highly ideological manner that has little to do with actual Minoan religion.