![]() ![]() It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies. Dashu’s work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images, and has created 150 slideshows on female cultural heritages across human history. Join us for an evening devoted to the celebration of the lives of these ancestors, with Max Dashu, author of “Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100.”Ībout Max Dashu: Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women’s history from an international perspective. The Christian bishops fought to suppress the ancient European veneration of Fatas, faeries, and the “good women who go by night with the Goddess,” but it persisted and still exists. ![]() These women held together their communities through healing and magic, their knowledge of the plants, animals, and land, and through their intimate knowledge of the people who came to them for counsel. In this visual talk, Max Dashu examines their cultural history, including folk names for the witch and the female sacraments of spinning, weaving, herbcraft, divination, incantation, and sacred dance. ![]() The spiritual heritages of pagan Europe were carried by wise women, healers, seers, enchantresses, and nightfarers. ![]()
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