RT Article
T1 "Mother Earth" is an Ancient Meme in the Global North: Continuity between Eurasian-American "Mother Earth" Concepts Demonstrated in the Athabaskan Case
JF Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
VO 18
IS 2
SP 204
OP 216
A1 Wilson, Joseph A. P.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1883498228
AB In this response to Sam Gill, I contend that European colonizers were not the first to combine and synthesize the goddesses of Eurasia and North America. I suggest that Athabaskan-speaking Native Americans share one identifiable Mother Earth concept with Yeniseian linguistic cousins in post-neolithic Siberia. Further, I regard this concept as congenitally related to a particular Mother Earth deity common to late ancient north Europe, via the multiethnic cultural continuum of the grassland steppe corridor connecting ancient central Europe to Siberia.
K1 Mother Earth
K1 Sam Gill
K1 Religion
DO 10.1558/jsrnc.27462