"In Search of the Earth-Mother of Anatolia" A documentary which looks at the root of the Earth Mother goddess common to European pagan religions; call her Cybele, Rhea, Ceres, or whatever - she comes from Anatolia and spread out in various forms from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. One late form was Artemis of Ephesus, an Anatolian version of a Greek goddess who was then sent back to Europe in her new form. This film focuses mainly on the Lycians, who were an early Indo-European people in Anatolia who seem to have preserved more of the pre-Indo-European Anatolian religion and culture than most.
'Leto transforms the Lycian peasants to frogs' painting by Alex Cristi
Sources:
- - Bryce. T., 'The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources' (1986)
- - Ovid 'Metamorphoses', Melville. A. D. (trans) (Oxford, 1986)
- - Evola. J., 'The Bow and the Club' (Arktos, 2018)
- - http://www.lycianturkey.com/cults_of_lycia_deities.htm
- - http://bikeclassical.blogspot.com/2017/03/letoon-sanctuary-of-eni-mahanahi.html
- - https://turkisharchaeonews.net/site/xanthos
- - Damgaard et al (2018)
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