The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue) Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene first on his resurrection before coming to anybody else. In addition, some archaeologists question whether the great profusion in these earlier cultures of female figurines, going back 30, years and perhaps even longer, indicates that they venerated a Goddess chalce Great Mother. Eisler argues that there has been a conspiracy within science to hide these early peaceful societies, as evidence she cites an anecdote about an anthropologist she really likes getting his funding removed. Indeed, when these figurines were first excavated in the 19th century, the men who found them in millennia-old caves seemed to think calice were an ancient kind of pornography, and called them Venus figures a term still used today. This gender partnership was a core component of a more egalitarian, peaceful, and matrifocal culture with a focus on life giving, centering on nurture. Retrieved from ” https: I have read Chalice more than 5 times, have been in book studies on it and led them as well. These people worship a male god or gods of war, vengeance, and honor. These early civilizations invented principles of food growing, containers, pottery, clothing fibers, construction techniques, leather work, and later, metal technologies in silver, gold, brass, and bronze. Not in a million years should The Chalice and the Blade be considered a work of feminism or competent scholarship in general. Until reading this book, I thought the arguments that early human cultures were peaceful egalitarian Goddess worshipers was about as strong as the arguments that early human beings were brutish war-mongering death-worshipers. The author also warns us against viewing history as black and white, but within her own view of ancient societies she paints Matriarchal societies only as peaceful and Patriarchal societies only as warlike. In short, despite old narratives about an inherently flawed humanity, chalicr and more evidence shows that humanity is not doomed to perpetuate patterns of violence and oppression. Such evidences as she does adduce for her hypothesis are both very tendentiously selective and interpretatively dubious in every instance where I have some expertise–such as regards supposed “gnostic gospels. The Chalice & the Blade: Highlights of International Impact To hear about the research and archaeological work on these sites, the fact that thee had paved roads, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and probably lived in better and cleaner cities than some people in third and fourth world countries today can boast of, eight thousand years before the birth of Christ was absolutely stunning to read about. I do not know of a more important book to help return our cultural direction to a sustainable path.
But chslice course Adocracy prevailed in the end. “May be the most significant work publis.Ī better future is possible - and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting drama of what actually happened in our past. Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevent book. The Chalice and the Blade (ISBN ) is a book by Riane Eisler that purports to explain the origin of “patriarchy” as the result of. With the most passionate eloquence, Riane Eisler proves that the “The Chalice and the Blade may be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes.”.