TEMPLO: Birds, Snakes, Goddesses, and Monsters

Join us for a lecture by Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D. about the degeneration of prehistoric divine female figures.

Thousands of prehistoric bird-human-woman and snake-human-woman figurines have been excavated throughout Eurasia. In the historic age, named goddesses and heroines take on this avian-viperine imagery but the sacred element in many has degenerated and the divine feminine has become monstrous. Join us for Birds, Snakes, Goddesses, and Monsters: The degeneration of prehistoric divine female figures – a lecture with an accompanying slide show with a pioneer of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D. This lecture is part of a series of programming curated by Kathryn Garcia, which draws inspiration from Garcia's TEMPLO installation and is presented as part of The Performance Project.

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