![]() ![]() Brutal massacres of priestesses and corruption of the sacred rites is the order of the day. Minos himself is on a mission to replace the Father/Zeus with the mother. Crete has long been infiltrated by Atticans/Athenians. Pasiphae, Ariadne’s mother, Queen of Crete and the Mother made flesh, has already broken the ancient laws by her submission to her consort Minos, who should have been ritually sacrificed long ago. ![]() ![]() We enter the palace at Knossos after the rot has already set in. This is not an airy, romantic rendition of an idealized Goddess centered past. She clearly brings a good deal of scholarship (includes a long bibliography) to her fictional interpretation of the collapse of the Mother centered religions and political structures (Crete) and the rise of the patriarchal structures exemplified by Zeus (Athens). Brindel has decoded and reimagined the Cretan and Greek Myths of the Minotaur, Daedalus, Icarus, Theseus and, above all, Ariadne. I cracked its spine again this summer and was amazed (probably all over again) at how brilliant it is. Since then it has survived many cullings of my bookshelf - as well as a house fire. I first read Ariadne around the time of its publication in 1980. ![]()
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