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, Australia.
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Caroline Tully focuses on Late Bronze Age cultic traditions in the ancient Aegean, eastern Mediterranean and Egypt. Caroline also has a strong interest in Reception Studies, particularly as regards the uses of ancient Minoan and Egyptian religions, deriving from her longtime study of contemporary Paganism, Witchcraft, and Ceremonial Magick.
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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.