{"id":985,"date":"2008-02-13T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2008-02-13T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T17:19:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-big-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Big Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&para; My copy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1869928784?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=chascli-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1869928784\">Fire Child: The Life &#038; Magic of Maxine Sanders, &#8216;Witch Queen&#8217;<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1869928784\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> arrived, and I will post a full review soon. Short version: Better than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b6 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0012Q7L44?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=chascli-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0012Q7L44\">When the Goddess Ruled the Earth<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0012Q7L44\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> is a new quasi-documentary film on hypothesized Neolithic religion. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenthegoddessruledtheearth.com\/\">trailers<\/a> are all shots of ancient megaliths with a &#8220;voice of God&#8221; (sorry) commentary. Looks like orthodox <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marija_Gimbutas\">Gimbutas-ism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My point is that you cannot necessarily tell by looking at a structure the religious views of its builders. You might be able to make an educated guess by analogy with known cultures, but without extensive, obvious archaeological evidence &#8212; and better still, written evidence &#8212; you cannot say. Is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venus_of_Willendorf\">&#8220;Venus of Willendorf&#8221;<\/a> a religious artifact or a Paleolithic Barbie doll? Will we ever know?<\/p>\n<p>&para; Fiacharrey, &#8220;the Bayou Druid,&#8221; is making YouTube videos on Celtic Reconstructionism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cx8drx7H1rI\">Here is one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&para; My copy of Fire Child: The Life &#038; Magic of Maxine Sanders, &#8216;Witch Queen&#8217; arrived, and I will post a full review soon. Short version: Better than I expected. \u00b6 When the Goddess Ruled the Earth is a new quasi-documentary film on hypothesized Neolithic religion. The trailers are all shots of ancient megaliths with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,38,21,36,29],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-celts","tag-england","tag-movies","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-fT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}