"Mother Earth" is an Ancient Meme in the Global North: Continuity between Eurasian-American "Mother Earth" Concepts Demonstrated in the Athabaskan Case
In this response to Sam Gill, I contend that European colonizers were not the first to combine and synthesize the goddesses of Eurasia and North America. I suggest that Athabaskan-speaking Native Americans share one identifiable Mother Earth concept with Yeniseian linguistic cousins in post-neolithi...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture |
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| Subtitles: | "Special Issue Forum: On Mother Earth" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2024
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Further subjects: | B
Sam Gill
B Mother Earth B Religion |
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| Summary: | In this response to Sam Gill, I contend that European colonizers were not the first to combine and synthesize the goddesses of Eurasia and North America. I suggest that Athabaskan-speaking Native Americans share one identifiable Mother Earth concept with Yeniseian linguistic cousins in post-neolithic Siberia. Further, I regard this concept as congenitally related to a particular Mother Earth deity common to late ancient north Europe, via the multiethnic cultural continuum of the grassland steppe corridor connecting ancient central Europe to Siberia. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "What is Mother Earth? (2024)"
Kritik in "Comments on Responses to "What is Mother Earth?" (2024)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.27462 |