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Goddesses in World Mythology
Goddesses in World Mythology
Covering 30,000 years of goddess worship, this fascinating book is the first and most comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to mythological deities.
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Goddesses Who Rule
Goddesses Who Rule
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Goddesses often are labelled as one-dimensional forces of nature or fertility. In examining a number of goddesses whose primary role is sovereignty, this vo...
Winged Goddesses of Sexuality, Death, and Immortality
Winged Goddesses of Sexuality, Death, and Immortality
The winged Egyptian goddess Isis is an ancient and complex deity, whose mythology presents her as bestower of fertility and immortality. This chapter follows up on these themes, an...
From Herbals to Walled Gardens
From Herbals to Walled Gardens
Chapter ten focuses on botanical thought of the Middle Ages in the Roman, Eastern and Islamic Empires when herbals devolved from practical field guides to decorative status symbols...
Earth, Sky, Women, and Immortality
Earth, Sky, Women, and Immortality
From pre-historic bird goddesses through the winged goddesses of the ancient world, the changing form of such female divinities is explored through the human understanding of and r...
Goddess embroideries of the Balkan lands and the Greek islands
Goddess embroideries of the Balkan lands and the Greek islands
Mary B. Kelly, Themes, motives, 1999, StudioBooks...
A Goddess from Bengal
A Goddess from Bengal
Feared as the ruler of snakes, Manasā, a late entrant to the pantheon of Hindu deities, is a fiercely partisan goddess who is vengeful to her adversaries and bountiful to her adher...