See more of clip Goddess Seals and Priestesses of Iran, excerpted from my Ancient Iran video.
Snake goddess, grain goddess, horned goddess, and women's ceremony in the cylinder seals of Kerman, southern Iran, circa 2400 bce. These ancient cylinder seals are rarely seen except by academic specialists, and they are extremely important testimony to both goddess reverence and women’s ceremonial leadership in a part of the world which is rarely acknowledged in world history, to say nothing of textbooks and popular culture.
Contents of the full video include female figurines and and ceramic paintings from neolithic Iran; Elamite script, goddess sculptures and cylinder seals; snake-wielding divinities in Jiroft stone vessels and in the bronzes of Luristan; the abstract female icons of north Iran, and the chased golden beakers of Marlik and Hasanlu. Women of the Persian empire, Sassanian queens and women warriors; the great goddess Anahita, and Zoroastrianism. A panorama of female icongraphy in Iran, from 6000 bce up to the Muslim conquest.
Full Ancient Iran video is stream on demand on the Suppressed Histories Portal.
