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Old Europe’s mother-goddess religion treated nature as sacred and discouraged destructive violence; Jiang says people had technology but chose not to turn it toward war.
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Sacred Nature
Old Europe’s mother-goddess religion treated nature as sacred and discouraged destructive violence; Jiang says people had technology but chose not to turn it toward war.
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Gimbutas's Mother Goddess is presented as a symbol of the unity of all life in nature, making animals, plants, water, stones, tombs, caves, birds, fish, hills, trees, and flowers sacred.
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"Okay? So, if you have a chance, please do study her work. And so, let's read what she wrote. Okay? So, this is the..."
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"Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable houses in moderately sized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long..."
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"Okay? So her main theory is that Europe at that time, their main belief is in the mother goddess who gives life to everything...."
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"Okay? So everything in the world is sacred because it is blessed by the mother goddess. If there's a mosquito, don't kill that mosquito..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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