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Goddess : myths of the female divine

Title
Goddess : myths of the female divine / David Leeming and Jake Page.
Author
Leeming, David Adams, 1937-
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
Page, Jake.
Description
xiv, 189 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Femininity of God > Legends
  • Goddesses > Legends
  • Goddess religion
  • Femininity of God
  • Goddess religion
  • Goddesses
  • Anthologie
  • Erzählung
  • Große Göttin
  • Göttin Motiv
  • Göttin
  • Mythologie
Genre/Form
  • legends (literary genre)
  • Legends
  • Legends.
  • Légendes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 0195086392
  • 9780195086393
  • 0195104625
  • 9780195104622
LCCN
94018604
OCLC
  • ocm30436901
  • 30436901
  • SCSB-2037233
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library