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Africa-Press – Seychelles. <\/strong><\/span>https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2022\/05\/20\/goddesses-and-witches-celebrated-in-new-british-museum-show\/
\nhttps:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2022\/05\/20\/goddesses-and-witches-celebrated-in-new-british-museum-show\/<\/p>\n

Alluring, warrior-like or nurturing, goddesses and other female spiritual beings from around the world are the focus of a new exhibition at the British Museum.<\/p>\n

Entitled “Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic”, it includes ancient sculptures of Roman goddesses Venus and Minerva and Egypt’s lioness-headed goddess Sekhmet, as well as modern images of deities worshipped today.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is the “first with a cross-cultural approach to this extraordinary, absolutely fundamental subject”, the London museum’s director Hartwig Fischer told reporters.<\/p>\n

Especially for the show, the museum commissioned a brightly painted icon of the Hindu warrior goddess Kali wearing a garland of severed heads, from Kolkata-based artist Kaushik Ghosh.<\/p>\n

A post shared by British Museum (@britishmuseum)<\/p>\n

The exhibition, which runs until September 25, also features commentary from high-profile figures including the feminist writer Bonnie Greer and classicist Mary Beard.<\/p>\n

“We’re not trying to tell people what they should think or how they should feel about this,” curator Belinda Crerar told AFP, saying she wanted the exhibition to start a conversation.<\/p>\n

One section on “compassionate” figures such as the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, notes that reverence for such female divinities “in many societies has not translated into a higher status for women themselves”.<\/p>\n

“This is the big question” raised by the exhibition, Crerar said.<\/p>\n

“It’s not straightforward and there is no singular answer to it.”<\/p>\n

“I believe there is a link between spiritual ideas relating to femininity and masculinity and how… women and men are viewed, but it is culturally specific.”<\/p>\n

A post shared by British Museum (@britishmuseum)<\/p>\n

For a section called “Magic and Malice” about witches and demons, the museum consulted a collective of practising British witches called Children of Artemis.<\/p>\n

“What we felt was really important to do in this section was to actually work with a group of men and women today who identify as witch or modern pagan or who practise Wicca,” said project curator Lucy Dahlsen.<\/p>\n

“Those relationships have been really important, to ensure we are looking at a living tradition in an appropriate way.”<\/p>\n

Some reactions came as a surprise.<\/p>\n

She pointed to a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting by John William Waterhouse of Greek goddess Circe casting a spell while wearing a see-through gown over her naked body.<\/p>\n

Many see this painting as “epitomising the male gaze and an image of a sorceress depicted as a kind of femme fatale,” Dahlsen said.<\/p>\n

But one British witch, Laura Daligan, commented that the picture was not far off.<\/p>\n

Witches “don’t always practise with clothes on \u2013 it is kind of realistic in a way,” she said in a comment posted online by the museum<\/p>\n

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