ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
One of the names given to Paleolithic figurines to align them to the archetype of the mother
Great goddess figures
Enheduanna's poetry was so appreciated that her work was used for this purpose hundreds of years later
Scribal schools
Christine de Pizan believed both of these ancient writings problematic when it came to women
Greek philosophy and The Holy Bible
One of the main reasons fairy tales and or old wives tales were so significant to young women
They were cautionary tales of what to expect, what to do how to cook, etc and essentially contained adulting essentials and marriage advice, in a society where women had no rights to education and were not expected to exist independent of family husbands
Two events that occurred in the 1300s and contributed to the European witch panic
The peasant revolts and the Black death
The two most reductive theories suggested by male archeologists who studied the Paleolithic figures
Erotica & Fertility
According to scholars women in ancient Sumer enjoyed these rights
Owning property, leading religious ceremony, and testifying in court
Condomblé, Santería, Voodoo, and Vodou all utilize Ancient African traditions in conjunction with this mainstream religion
Catholicism
These two figures were simultaneously born out of Medusa's head after Perseus decapitated her
Pegasus and Chrysaor
Rather than to use the derogatory term, "Witch", an alternative healer or natural medicine practitioner would have referred to herself as one of these 4 terms 500 years ago
Lay healer, cunning woman, midwife, nurse
Helped humans create the first calendar.
The moon cycle/ the menstrual cycle
Inanna's 3-day/3 night Journey to the underworld may be influenced by older Neolithic principles related to this cycle
The agricultural cycle aka the cycle of seasons
This famous 1971 revolution started with a voodoo ceremony which may have stoked fears around African magical traditions
The Haitian revolution, which freed natives from the French occupation and lifted Napoleon Bonaparte's reign on their nation
This term denotes the spaces that Mulan finds herself in when she leaves home
Liminality
Three of the main objectives of settling colonizers
Appropriation (AKA theft) of native land, conquering of indigenous people, the foundation of new governments
Refers to the lines and symbols carved onto ancient goddess art that may indicate a very early writing system
Metalanguage
Thousands of these have been translated over the last century containing 4,000-year-old stories of Inanna's love for Dumuzi
Cuneiform tablets
19th century depictions of voodoo established these ongoing patriarchal/white supremacist themes in America
Black criminality, stereotypes, and segregation laws AKA Jim Crow
The face of Medusa may have been used for this before the Greeks
Protection, similar to evil eye. A way to ward off evil and ill will and direct such energy back to the sender
Two major factors that contributed to women's loss of rights in the early modern era
The dismissal from all merchant guilds, as well as exclusion from the burgeoning medical universities
A female deity who reincarnated souls via burial
Goddess of Life, death and regeneration
The Sumerians used this innovation to bring water to a desert
Irrigation
This New Orleans Louisiana woman was a well-known voodoo priestess as well as a free woman of color
Maria Laveau
Name of the Greek goddess who cursed Medusa turning her into a hideous monster after Medusa was raped (by adult deity Poseidon) as a young child while in the temple of this goddess, of whom Medusa was a priestess.
Athena
An oppressive system implemented via the removal and erasure of indigenous peoples in order to take the land for use
Settler colonialism