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Women, androgynes, and other mythical beasts
- Title
- Women, androgynes, and other mythical beasts / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty.
- Author
- Doniger, Wendy.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1980]
- ©1980
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- Description
- xviii, 382 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this volume the author intends to present aspects of Hindu mythology at direct variance with standard views. Sacred marriages, often seen as the union of deities of equal power, are shown here to be unequal. Siva's dance is destructive as well as creative. Androgynes. typically interpreted as symbols of fusion, also function symbols of conflict. Cows, positive symbols of the female, also have their negative implications. With a fine sense of the complexity of the matter, however, O'Flaherty indicates that her intention is not to reduce Hindu mythology to any of these limited concepts, but to reveal a configuration of themes often obscured by the more conventional patterns.
- Subject
- Hindu mythology
- Sex
- Animals, Mythical
- Androgyny (Psychology)
- Women > in folklore, mythology, & religion
- Animals > in folklore, mythology, & religion
- Disorders of Sex Development > in folklore, mythology, & religion
- Hinduism
- Sexual Behavior
- sexuality
- legendary beings
- Animals, Mythical
- Hindu mythology
- Sex
- Seksen
- Mythologie
- Symbolen
- Metaforen
- Androgyny
- Hinduism
- Sexual Behavior
- Mythologie hindoue
- Déesses hindoues
- Sexualité > Aspect religieux > Hindouisme
- Animaux fabuleux
- Androgyne (mythologie)
- Indien
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 345-362.
- Contents
- I. Introduction -- 1. The myth of method in mythology -- II. Sexual fluids -- 2. Sexual fluids in Vedic and post-Vedic India -- III. Gods and goddesses in opposition -- 3. The Shazam syndrome -- 4. The shifting balance of power in Indian hierogamies -- 5. The dance of Siva with Kali and Parvati -- IV. Cows and mares -- 6. The Indo-European mare -- 7. The mare beneath the sea -- 8. Sacred cows and profane mares -- V. Androgynes -- 9. The comparison of androgynes.
- ISBN
- 0226618498
- 9780226618494
- LCCN
- 79016128
- OCLC
- ocm05126272
- 5126272
- SCSB-11773
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library