When the drummers were women

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"In the mother goddess cultures of ancient Europe, the rhythm clans come alive in Layne's fascinating and insightful book."
MiCKEY HAKT,
author ov Drum mi s(i at Tin Fhi.i: oi Maok and PLAMrr IXrvm
"Reading When the Drummers Were Women gave me goosebumps. This inspiring history of feminine power and spirituality shows that patriarchy is just a blip on the screen and that women in charge of our bodies and spirits is our natural state. Layne Redmond has restored the drum to its rightful place as a sacred technology for repossessing our own consciousness." Chrkstiank Northri f. M.D.,
author of WOMES'S BODIES, WOMES'S WisOOM
"I devoured this book with a spiritual hunger that astonished me, hunger for roots that go all the way back to zero. Hunger for information to back up my instincts, my intuitive responses to a world that has forgotten that god is the dance. Hunger for religious roots buried in the beat, burned at the stake, pulsing in the bloodlines of a billion wild women.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"In the mother goddess cultures of ancient Europe, the rhythm clans come alive in Layne's fascinating and insightful book."
MiCKEY HAKT,
author ov Drum mi s(i at Tin Fhi.i: oi Maok and PLAMrr IXrvm
"Reading When the Drummers Were Women gave me goosebumps. This inspiring history of feminine power and spirituality shows that patriarchy is just a blip on the screen and that women in charge of our bodies and spirits is our natural state. Layne Redmond has restored the drum to its rightful place as a sacred technology for repossessing our own consciousness." Chrkstiank Northri f. M.D.,
author of WOMES'S BODIES, WOMES'S WisOOM
"I devoured this book with a spiritual hunger that astonished me, hunger for roots that go all the way back to zero. Hunger for information to back up my instincts, my intuitive responses to a world that has forgotten that god is the dance. Hunger for religious roots buried in the beat, burned at the stake, pulsing in the bloodlines of a billion wild women. Erased but not eradicated. Layne Redmond offers us proof that rhythm is our mother tongue. She has undertaken a shamanic journey for all of us to recover our spiritual heritage and call the beat back into our tribal hearts."
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"Redmond's work on rhythm is as wise as it is deep, especially in its contribution to personal renewal. Her scholarship enables the reader to establish powerful personal and political connections to the profound mystery of the goddess, past, present, and future."
-Maria Harris,
author of Dance of the Spirit and Jubilee Time
Throughout pre-Christian history, drumming was used by Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures as a medium of communication and spirituality and as a way of exploring human consciousness in connection to the surrounding world. Growing out of a powerful feminine and goddess tradition, these mystical practices flourished in temples and secular life until they were forcibly suppressed by the advent of Christianity.
Now, in her long-awaited, lavishly illustrated book, Ms. Redmond, an acknowledged expert on the ancient history of women in music, reveals an extraordinary chronicle of women as drummers and leaders of rituals. Using an extensive collection of images from temples, wall paintings, vases, and reliefs gathered during more than ten years of research and travel in the Mideast and Europe, readers are given a captivating visual confirmation of the validity and power of a goddess-oriented tradition.
When the Drummers Were Women also brings together current scientific research into rhythm's harmonious effects on the body, mind, and spirit. "Women often feel that, along with a portion of their history, they're missing a part of their psyches. They've lost access to important regions of their mind. Until they can reclaim those parts of themselves, they are not whole." Based upon fascinating myths, archaeology, and history, Layne Redmond demonstrates how women today can reclaim drumming as a spiritual heritage and sacred technology that celebrates the unity of natural cycles of the earth, cosmos, and human body. Vissza