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Burial Rites of the Neanderthals

By: Annie Dieu-Le-Veut April 23, 2011January 16, 2015

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A paper was published in 2011 by Quaternary International about likely evidence for burial rites at the 50,000-year-old Neanderthal burial ground, Sima de las Palomas in Murcia, Southeast Spain.

Ritual Childbirth, Venuses and the Double Goddess

By: Annie Dieu-Le-Veut April 19, 2011April 13, 2016

Ancestors, Tombs and wombsAlexander Marshack, childbirth, Double Goddess, Marija Gimbutas, midwives, ritual childbirth, Secret Fire, shamans, Venus figurines, Venus of Laussel1 Comment

TO our earliest ancestors, both death and birth were considered to be spirit initiations. In this dialogue, we unravel the rituals around childbirth going back at least as far as the last Ice Age.