“Old Women” and Hittite Queens
This audio talk (stream below) delves into female powers which remained active in the patriarchal Hittite empire: a class of priestesses called the “Old Women” or “Wisewomen” or “Magic Women” (possibly “Midwives”) who were recorded in the archives of temples, but were later driven from the royal courts; a sovereignty goddess called “Throne” or “Altar […]
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