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Vicki Noble
author of "Artemis and the Amazons"
 photograph by Irene Young (c)1989 |
Vicki Noble has had a long and fascinating career, of which I
can give just a thumbnai1 sketch here: In the 1970s she created, graduated with honors from, and subsequently taught in, the first women's interdisciplinary studies program at Colorado College. Noble later worked for many years with noted archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Languages of the Goddess), and has also for many years taught at the graduate level, both here and abroad, on female shamanism and the healing arts. With artist Karen Vogel, Noble co-authored the Motherpeace Tarot Deck based upon the documented history and ethnography of female esoteric practices. Noble authored several highly respected books on female shamanism, such as Shakti Woman, and Uncoiling the Snake, and she is also publisher of the quarterly journal, Snakepower, which received a coveted Utne nomination as Best First Publication. |
| Vicki Noble currently teaches at the California
Institute of Integral Studies, and conducts tours of sacred sites of the ancient goddess
cultures in such exotic locales as Bali, Greece, Turkey, and the British Isles. Her most
recent research project has taken her into Russia to work with another noted
archaeologist, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, director of the Center for the Study of Eurasian
Nomads and founder of the Kazakh/American Research Project. Davis-Kimball's article Warrior
Women of the Eurasian Steppes: Archaeology, 1997, suggests that the Amazons may not
have been only a figment of Herodotus's imagination. Those who would like to pursue their interest in Vicki Noble's contribution to this website, or the connections between the Amazons and female shamanism, may contact her directly: Vicki Noble |
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