the Female Icons poster is available from Veleda Press

The assemblage of ancient female figurines recollects the world's primordial spiritual art in all its diversity, its deep continuities and global connections.

Shown, from left top: Italy, Sudan, Egypt, Russia, Ecuador, Siberia, France, Morocco, Alaska, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Mexico, China, Zimbabwe, Manchuria, Iraq, Iran, Peru, Turkey, Brazil, Utah, Hungary, Chad, India, Greenland, Mexico, Honduras, Argentina, Britain, Israel, Chile, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Illinois, Kurdistan, Sulawesi, Louisiana, Brazil, Kenya, Sudan. More information about places, dates, and contexts.

"They are not 'Venus figurines'" Photo essay
The language we use matters, and images matter very much.

Icons of the Matrix:
2004 article by Max Dashu on global cultural patterns of female icons

The Meanings of Goddess: on interpretation, authority, and
the devaluation of female iconography

Part I: What we mean when we say “Goddess”

Part II: Goddess Heresies: the legacies of stigma in academia

Part III: Essentialism or Essence: Out from the Land of Theory