Author: Miriam Robbins DexterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807762349
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Whence the Goddesses
Author: Miriam Robbins DexterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807762349
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Whence the Goddesses
Author: Miriam Robbins DexterPublisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Discusses the history of goddesses and examines the accural of characteristics, powers, and functions among goddesses through ancient Europe and other areas inhabited by Indo-European speaking peoples"--Back cover.
Sacred Display
Author: Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968324
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Living Goddesses
Author: Marija GimbutasPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520229150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.
The Language of the Goddess
Author: Marija GimbutasPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 9780500014806
Category : Goddesses
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The goddess is the most potent and persistent feature in the archaeological records of the ancient world. In this volume the author resurrects the world of goddess-worshipping, earth-centred cultures, bringing ancient matriarchal society to life.
Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines
Author: Patricia Monaghan, PhDPublisher: New World Library
ISBN: 160868217X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
More Than 1,000 Goddesses & Heroines from around the World Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from the beginning of recorded history, goddesses reigned alongside their male counterparts as figures of inspiration and awe. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, literature, and psychology, Monaghan’s vibrant and accessible encyclopedia covers female deities from Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Asia and Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, as well as every major religious tradition.
Sacred Architecture, Its Rise, Progress, and Present State
Author: Richard BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses
Author: Michael JordanPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109857
Category : Goddesses
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Presents brief entries describing the gods and goddesses from the mythology and religion of a wide variety of cultures throughout history.
The Origin of the Gods
Author: Richard S. CaldwellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195072669
Category : Gods, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Presented in clear, comprehensible language, this study first explains the aspects of psychoanalytic theory relevant to the understanding of Greek myth, and then interprets, using psychoanalytic methodology, the Greek myth of origin and succession, particularly as stated in Hesiod's Theogony. Caldwell's provocative study will appeal to a wide range of classicists, teachers and students of mythology, and those interested in the application of psychoanalytic methods to literature.
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