I speak with Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archive, and author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700–1100. In this interview, Max draws on a lifetime of historical research, documenting and interpreting the art and artifacts of ancient cultures from around the world.

Max elaborates on what can be understood about ancient mother-right cultures and the worldview these ancient peoples may have held, as well as the important and necessary roles women fulfilled in these ancient societies. Max also expounds on the kinds of knowledge and traditions of wisdom (passed on through women) that have been suppressed and largely lost in our collective transition to modernity. By developing an understanding of the forms of knowledge and wisdom that have been lost in the long-unfolding suppression of ancient traditions, what can we ultimately understand about our modern mode of existence on this planet?