netmotif by AGF

matri-circular - clues about humans - per-serve-rance - etic

the netmotif - after Gimbutas

vulvas, uteri, life giving water, uteran water, eggs, fish, symbols of uterus, squares of net-design, spinning, weaving, music making, life thread

source (1989): https://programs.newdimensions.org/products/return-of-the-goddess-with-marija-gimbutas
about: https://www.opusarchives.org/marija-gimbutas-collection/

tracklisting:

Aergia [Greek] - personification of sloth, idleness, indolence and laziness

Mẫu Đệ Tứ Nhạc Tiên [Vietnamese] - head of the musical palace, who rules the mountains, the highlands, one of the four sacred mothers

Gaia [Greek] - personification of the earth - the primal mother earth goddess

Isis [Egyptian] - the mother goddess of healing and magic

Pele [Hawaiian] - goddess of fire, and volcanoes and the creator of the Hawaiian islands

Lakshmi [Hindu] - goddess of wealth, fortune, prosperity, beauty, fertility and abundance

Abundantia [Roman] - goddess of abundance, money-flow, prosperity, fortune, valuables, and success

Sedna [Inuit] - goddess of the sea and marine animals in Inuit mythology

Yemọja [Yoruban] - goddess of creation, water, moon, the motherhood, and protection

Nyi Roro Kidul [Javanese] - supernatural being, ruler of the southern sea in Sundanese and Javanese mythology

Enfys Nest [Hollywooden] - resistance fighter who led the Cloud-Riders - wind

Uhksáhkku [Sami] - the door goddess - lives under the doorstep

Louhi [Finnish] - deity, goddess of north, shapeshifter, flies

Hathor [Egyptian] - sky deity, mother of the sun god Ra

Kupala [Ukrainian] - goddess of joy and water

Tiamat [Babylonian] - creator goddess, through a sacred marriage between different waters, sea, the groundwater

Ixchel [Mayan] - goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture

Şamaran [Kurdish] - wisdom goddess to protect secrets

Sige [Norwegian] - goddess of silence and void

Uttu [Tigrayan] - indigenous polytheist religions - spider goddess. patroness of weavers, weaving

Matsu [Taiwanese] - goddess of the sea

MAchA [Irish] - sovereignty goddess - land, fertility, kingship, war and horses

Xuannü [Chinese] - goddess of war, sex, and longevity

Mawu [Dahomey] - creator goddess, associated with the sun and moon in Dahomey mythology

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the netmotif - after Gimbutas

vulvas, uteri, life giving water, uteran water, eggs, fish, symbols of uterus, squares of net-design, spinning, weaving, music making, life thread

source: https://programs.newdimensions.org/products/return-of-the-goddess-with-marija-gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe. She served as Professor of European Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Curator of Old World Archaeology at what is now the Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Maria Gimbutas’s legacy has had a profound impact on both scientific fields and cultural movements, inspiring many artists and writers. Her publications on ancient symbols and Goddess images in the 1970s were seminal for feminist artists in North America, including Mary Beth Edelson, who performed a ritual-based piece in Grapčeva cave, and Judy Chicago, who featured Gimbutas’ Goddess figures in her iconic installation The Dinner Party (1974–70). Today, Gimbutas’ theories are being celebrated in the context of the climate emergency and feminist emancipation.

Books by Marija Gimbutas include:

The Living Goddesses (editor Miriam Robbins Dexter) (University of California Press 1981)
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images, (University of California Press 1982)
The Language of the Goddess (coauthor Joseph Campbell) (Harper & Row 1989)

more about the work of Marija Gimbutas
https://www.opusarchives.org/marija-gimbutas-collection/

etic - after Wynter

"These latter terms, “etic” and “emic,” are used to indicate whether what is being studied is approached in terms endogenous to the community under study or exogenous. Emic studies explain what is meaningful from the perspective of the community under study. Etic studies explain what is meaningful from a vantage external to that community. While many particular methods depend on prioritizing one of these (often by excluding the other), well-rounded methodologies imply the call for exploring both etic and emic accounts of social phenomena in order to understand them multi-dimensionally. Indeed, rigorous methodology may require, in short, working out specific permutations of the etic and the emic, as opposed to a mere combination of the two."
https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/11/22/sylvia-wynter-and-the-concept-of-the-homocene/

Sylvia Wynter
https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/wynter-sylvia/

Tracklist

1.	Aergia	2:16

2.	Mẫu Đệ Tứ Nhạc Tiên	2:24

3.	Gaia	2:13

4.	Isis	2:18

5.	Pele	2:05

6.	Lakshmi	1:55

7.	Abundantia	1:55

8.	Sedna	1:59

9.	Yemoja	3:17

10.	Nyi Roro Kidul	2:40

11.	Enfys Nest	2:25

12.	Uhksáhkku	1:18

13.	Louhi	2:15

14.	Hathor	2:12

15.	Kupala	2:52

16.	Tiamat	2:22

17.	Ixchel	1:41

18.	Şamaran	2:18

19.	Sige	1:22

20.	Uttu	1:39

21.	Matsu	2:14

22.	Macha	2:21

23.	Xuannü	1:55

24.	Mawu	2:32

Credits

released September 24, 2024

this work is inspired by my then 6y old daughter asking me, how many gods exist? we searched and found 300Million+ gods and goddesses are known to humanity. she asked me to write this big number on a piece of paper and took it to school next day. she could not write yet.

for context: I am an atheist, I was raised by commies without religion, which I am personally grateful for, I dislike their oppression of religious groups but also I am very critical of organized religion and think it should be avoided, let people come into their own spirituality... and keep it fluid... life to short to be stuck!

all by AGF
poemproducer.com

License

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