Goddess Remembered

Goddess Remembered
Directed byDonna Read
Produced byMargaret Pettigrew
Signe Johansson
Studio D, National Film Board of Canada
StarringStarhawk
Charlene Spretnak
Susan Griffin
Carol Christ
Luisah Teish
Kim Chernin
Mary Tallmountain
Jean Bolen
Elena Featherstone
Shekhinah Mountainwater
Merlin Stone
CinematographySusan Trow
Music byLoreena McKennitt
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Goddess Remembered is a 1989 Canadian documentary on the Goddess movement and feminist theories surrounding Goddess worship in Old European culture according to Marija Gimbutas, and Merlin Stone's 1976 book When God Was a Woman.

The main theme of the film, composed by Loreena McKennitt, was released as the track "Ancient Pines" on her 1989 album Parallel Dreams. Goddess Remembered is the first film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, followed by The Burning Times (1990) and Full Circle (1993).[1]

  1. ^ Raddeker, Helen Bowen (2014). "Goddess 'remembered'? Pure origins in the historical metanarrative of goddess feminism". Outskirts: feminisms along the edge. 31. Retrieved 29 December 2022.