The Goddess

Canaan was an ancient Semitic-speaking civilization in the southern Levant during the late second millennium BCE. The southern Levant refers to an area encompassed by modern Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, parts of Syria and Palestine. Canaan is the ancient name of this region, and a Canaanite culture was prominent until the Iron Age, when the kingdoms…

I sit with books spread out around me, open to the pages dedicated to the great goddesses of Anatolia – modern Türkiye. In 2022, the name was updated from Turkey to Türkiye. Türkiye is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Long before the arrival of Alexander the Great and Romans, the peoples of…

I remember being introduced to the goddesses of Sumer for the very first time, sitting in a packed lecture hall. I can remember looking around at the bunch of lethargic students who wanted to be anywhere but a Mythology lecture, feeling much the same. It might have been an afternoon class, straight after lunch when…