February at Opus ~ Gimbutas Film Screening & Become Our Friend!
Our February 2013 eNewsletter is now available. Click here to read about what’s been happening at Opus!
Read MoreCall for Papers – Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) has announced a call for papers for their upcoming biennial symposium, ‘Lady of Ten Thousand Lakes: Finding Wisdom in Places‘. The symposium will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 20, 2013. The ASWM
Read MoreNew Items in the Marija Gimbutas Collection
A colleague and friend of Marija Gimbutas’ just gifted to us some wonderful new materials! The first couple of items are DVDs including: “The Goddess in Art”, a cable TV series produced and moderated by Starr Goode from 1985 to 1991, dedicated to the Goddess i
Read MoreOpus Celebrates Marija Gimbutas with the BBC!
Happening now… The BBC has arrived at Opus to document the manuscripts and photos found in the collection of Marija Gimbutas!!! Offering context, meaning and integrity to Marija’s indelible contribution, such an interdisciplinary unearthing of image and imagination, cultur
Read MoreWalking in the Footsteps of the Goddess, with Norvene Vest
An exciting upcoming retreat to be held at La Casa de Maria on January 20 – 22, 2012. Norvene Vest explores the personal and social importance of the human possibilities raised by Maria Gimbutas’ mythology and investigates the cultural implications of her vision.Through im
Read MoreCampbell & Gimbutas Library Catalogs Now Accessible Online
We are happy to announce that through the care and consideration of Alain Dussert, Pacifica’s Director of Library Services, and Richard Buchen, Special Collections Librarian, the Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas libraries can now be accessed online. It’s now easier than
Read MoreFrog Goddesses and Gaga for Eggs
It’s a soft rain swept morning in Santa Barbara, perfect weather for aquatic beings and hidden creatures. The imagination finds footing in ancient imagery and the Frog Goddess rises up and out of Marija Gimbutas’ Neolithic world, fecund and symbolically paradoxical. Gimbutas writes th
Read MoreThe four fold symbol
“The fourfold compositions [the cross, the quartered circle], archetypal of perpetual renewal or wholeness and the moon in the symbolism of Old Europe, are associated with the Great Goddess of Life and Death, and the Goddess of Vegetation, moon goddesses par excellence.” M
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