Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Markale Jean
Title : Women of the Celts
Year : 1972

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Within our society's patriarchal framework, the goddesses of the distant past have been obscured and buried. But they do still exist and sometimes rise triumphantly to rock the supposedly immovable foundation of masculine society. The Celts, who at one time occupied the whole of Europe, were a people who stood halfway between earlier matriarchal societies and the later patriarchal Indo-European cultures. Their laws and customs reveal an equality and harmony between men and women that is unique. Celtic women enjoyed, among other things, equal ownership of property with men and widespread sexual freedom. In an even deeper way, the Celtic myths show an extraordinary understanding of woman in relation to all of life. It is these myths and legends that author Jean Markale illuminates in exquisite detail, revealing the myriad faces of woman, from prophetess and enchantress to warrior and educator. For the Celts, the quest for the Holy Grail becomes a search for love and for the paradise that is concealed, but ever alive, in the depths of the unconscious. In this hidden realm, woman wears the mask of man's initiator, transformer, and deliverer. Within the maternal womb of the grail man is given new birth and new life. ...