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[johanna_hypatia]

Comparison of root words in the Uzbek language points back to a very ancient nexus between the Moon, consciousness, and women's shamanism.

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[kesnit]

Very interesting. It lends a lot of credence to the idea that the earliest human religions were female-based.

(Sorry for the poor spelling or if I am making no sense. I have been up for 20 hours now and am starting to run down.)

[johanna_hypatia]

You spelled everything right and made perfect sense, hon.

[elorie]

Ooo. That sounds...intriguing. And no, I don't think you're going too far out on a limb...scholars have made much more out of much less.

[tanith_astlik]

I looked up paleolithic lunar calendars on Google just for fun. Seems there are still some arguments going on about whether those calendars were calendars after all ( The Existence of Prehistoric Lunar Calendars and JSTOR: Current Anthropology, vol. 30, #4. Academicians like to argue. That's what they get paid for. ;)

Even though I'm not a fan of semiotics, I like this article best: Upper Paleolithic Art, Religion adn Semiotics. In fact, the entire site looks pretty good.

[johanna_hypatia]

Thanks for sharing that!

[tanith_astlik]

Thank elorie! If she hadn't mentioned what you'd written in your journal, I never would have had so much fun. :)

[johanna_hypatia]

Yes, elorie is one cool and awesome woman all right. I think she's the first person I ever friended cyberly, without meeting F2F first, on the recommendation of bheansidhe, who I know in person.

[johanna_hypatia]

> o'yinchi. (Looks like an Irish Chinese name, doesn't it?)

China's ancient Celts lived in Xinjiang, the ancestral homeland of the Central Asian Turkic language Chaghatay, which is the source of both modern Uzbek and Uyghur.

[america_divine]

I finally made it here and like it! ;-)

Though he's a few millennial later, Peter Kingsley also traces everything to Anatolian traditions--books are _Reality_ and _In the Dark Places of Wisdom_. He's a fairly well-received academic who teaches the practices of the cthonic Apollo and seems to be an accomplished mystic... relies a lot on the Parmenides vision-poem (of an unnamed Goddess)--his rendering is stunning and unconventional, but has met with more acceptance than one would expect.