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The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother
Christopher R. Fee
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Description for The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother
Hardback. An account of the emergence and evolution of the female goddess, from ancient India and Iran, through Europe and the Far East, to Ireland and Iceland. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
For as long as humans have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of our earliest civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature's fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. As people began to migrate across the world, the faces of the goddess and the roles she played were forever changed. The Goddess takes us back into prehistory, tracing the evolution of the goddess across vast spans of time to trace the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. The metamorphoses of goddess figures ... Read more
For as long as humans have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of our earliest civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature's fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. As people began to migrate across the world, the faces of the goddess and the roles she played were forever changed. The Goddess takes us back into prehistory, tracing the evolution of the goddess across vast spans of time to trace the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. The metamorphoses of goddess figures ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780235097
SKU
V9781780235097
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99-15
About Christopher R. Fee
Christopher Fee is Professor and Chair of English at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, and the author of Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might (2011). David Leeming is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. His books include the Oxford Companion to World Mythology (2005) and Medusa: In the Mirror of ... Read more
Reviews for The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother
Spanning the cultures of ancient India, Iran, the Near East, classical antiquity, and Celtic and Germanic Europe, and ranging from the Paleolithic to the ascendancy of monotheism, the authors unveil the many faces of the goddess: embodiment of wisdom; the incarnation of sexual desire; living nurturer of field, forest, and sea; life-giving mother; and sacred personification of death. The Goddess ... Read more