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 In the Neolithic spirit of community and mutual support, fueled by unbridled curiosity, comes an invitation. If you have a story
to tell of Ancient Malta in the Temple Period, you are encouraged to
write it down and send it in.
s What is this all about? While sharing works of fiction placed in ancient Temple Period Malta, two writers were astonished at the unexpected similarities in the creative pictures which emerged. Theresa Dintino ("Ode to Minoa") and Linda C. Eneix ("People of the Temples") researched and wrote independently, yet the creative process brought them both to many of the same conclusions. The Maltese temples are thought by many to be the personification of the earliest and richest Goddess culture on earth. Little is certain about the mysterious people who lived in this megalithic world of the temples, placed from 3800 - 2300 BCE. Yet the urge to fantasize about an idyllic society, peacefully entrenched in the arms of their Mother Earth for more than a thousand years remains compelling. The challenge is to suspend all that has come down through historic times to examine a society that had no Bible and no Patriarchs and no Women's Lib. What were their rituals? How did they live? How did they die? The idea for an anthology of short stories quickly resulted. "We want to see how a variety of voices coming from a range of different quarters will recreate this ancient lifescape. It will be fascinating to examine interpretations which may be very similar or may be very different, and to get fresh perspectives. Fiction is the only way to paint the picture you get with your soul when the hard evidence of science is scarce." "It also might be interesting to try to find older previously published or unpublished writings that may have been suppressed: writings by women of past generations who were inspired by the place. How much wisdom there is to be gained from our ancestresses and how little we have access to them or are even reminded that there were any! What wise woman or women of the past journeyed to Malta only to have her imagination peaked like ours have been?" If you are interested in a hard copy version of the anthology, please register to be notified when it is available. OTSF@aol.com subject: TEMPLE STORIES.
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