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Goddess : myths of the female divine
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Goddess : myths of the female divine

Author: David Adams Leeming; Jake Page
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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David Leeming and Jake Page gather some seventy-five of the most potent and meaningful of these tales in an extraordinary rich and readable introduction of this divine figure as she has emerged from prehistory to the present.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Adams Leeming; Jake Page
ISBN: 0195086392 9780195086393
OCLC Number: 30436901
Description: xiv, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. The Birth of the Archetype: Earth Goddess. She. Okanaga Earth Woman. Kunapipi. Nut. Sun Woman. Devi-Shakti --
II. The Flowering of the Archetype: Great Mother. Nunkwi. Kali. Oya. Pele. Tlillan. Spider Woman. Thinking Woman. Astarte. Romi Kumu. Coadidop. Kagaba Mother. White Buffalo Woman. Ala. Coatlicue. Hathor. Ua Zit and Maat. Danu --
III. The Male and the Archetype: Fertility Goddess. Mawu. Eurynome. Amaterasu. Cherokee Sun. Inanna. Demeter and Persephone. Sati. Rabie. Hainuwele. Corn Mother. Isis. Cybele --
IV. The Undermining of the Archetype: Goddess Abused. Parvati. Changing Woman. Izanami. Mboze and Bunzi. Hera (I). Rhea. Hera (II). Tiamat. Ganga. Ishtar. Asherah. Lilith. Eve. Pandora. Medusa. Chimera. Circe. Penelope. Vritra and Danu. Vagina Girls. Kuan Yin --
V. The Sublimation of the Archetype: Goddess Disguised. Athena. Artemis. Aphrodite. Durga. Anat. Maeve. Rhiannon. Freyja. Frigg. Hecate. Bridget. Mary. Maya --
VI. The Return of the Archetype: Goddess Revived.
Responsibility: David Leeming and Jake Page.
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David Leeming and Jake Page gather some seventy-five of the most potent and meaningful of these tales in an extraordinary rich and readable introduction of this divine figure as she has emerged from prehistory to the present.

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