The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
10 best books like The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (Monica Sjöö): The Witches' Goddess, Ariadne's Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, The Once and Future Goddess, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World
| Author | Janet Farrar |
| ISBN | 0919345913 |
This book is of great practical value in discovering and celebrating the transforming energy of the Feminine Principle of Divinity. Part I covers the myriad faces of the Goddess revealed, including: Her presence throughout history; Her Earth and Moon symbolism; Her Madonna and Magdalene disguises;...
| Author | Shekhinah Mountainwater |
| ISBN | 0895944758 |
Using the figure of the ancient Goddess Ariadne as a metaphor, Mountainwater unravels the mysteries of a woman-centered spirituality. She offers gentle guidance through the cycles of a woman's life; the phases of the moon; the yearly nature holidays; and the aspects of divination. She concludes...
| Author | Jean Shinoda Bolen |
| ISBN | 0062502727 |
A Midlife Quest For The Grail And The Goddess
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils...
| Author | Elinor W. Gadon |
| ISBN | 0062503545 |
A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men. In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history. Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary...
| Author | Layne Redmond |
| ISBN | 0609801287 |
Redmond's thesis is quite fascinating, and it is wonderful to see this area of oft-overlooked women's spirituality and religion come to light. However, I was a little disappointed in the writing of this book, finding it straying too far from the intended topic of the history of women's drumming practices....
| Author | Anne Baring |
| ISBN | 0140192921 |
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
| Author | Barbara G. Walker |
| ISBN | 0062509233 |
This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features:
Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object
21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities'...
| Author | China Galland |
| ISBN | 0140195661 |
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With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen...
| Author | Vicki Noble |
| ISBN | 0062510851 |
For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with...
| Author | Merlin Stone |
| ISBN | 0807067512 |
I really like this book, but that might surprise people who know me well. That's because I studied Classics and ancient Greek goddesses, and this book does not provide a balanced academic portrayal of the deities. Which is not to say its not well researched, but neither is that the book's point, I suspect....
| Author | Zsuzsanna E. Budapest |
| ISBN | 0914728679 |
I've been waiting to read this book for ages, and now that I finally have started to read it I'm so disappointed and angry! This is so much crap!
Where are all the women's mysteries and magic? It all comes down to "we have to stop this chauvinistic, male-centered, women-oppressing world-spread society!"...
| Author | Marija Gimbutas |
| ISBN | 0500282498 |
Gimbutas' seminal (I use the word ironically) work is a beautiful, yet flawed, artifact. The plethora of images showing carvings and etchings on neolithic pottery and statuary, for the most part, is astounding and worth the price of the book alone. Gimbutas provides a taxonomy of these neolithic (and...
| Author | Anne Hill |
| ISBN | 0553378058 |
In our rushed, stressed society, it's sometimes difficult to spend meaningful time as a family. Now Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill offer new ways to foster a sense of togetherness through celebrations that honor the sacredness of life and our Mother Earth.
Goddess tradition embraces...
| Author | Starhawk |
| ISBN | 0807010375 |
My edition is the old blue one with the white letters and it was part of opening the interior and exterior world for me back in the day. Starhawk's insistence on the integration of sexuality, politics and the personal power some refer to as magic has aged well, as has her vision of what we risk by not understanding...
| Author | Demetra George |
| ISBN | 0062503707 |
Exploring the mystery, wisdom, and power of the dark phase of the moon's cycle--a lunar-based model for moving through the dark times in our lives with understanding, consciousness, and faith in renewal.
The moon's dark phase has traditionally been a time of fear and superstition, a time...
Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit
| Author | Patricia Monaghan |
| ISBN | 1567184634 |
Now you can turn every day into a day dedicated to the goddess and your own personal spiritual evolution, when you get The Goddess Companion by Patricia Monaghan.
Turn to The Goddess Companion each day for a clearer insight into how the divine flows through your life. This spirit-nourishing...
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality
| Author | Judith Plaskow |
| ISBN | 0060613831 |
This book made my mind explode when I read it in the early 1990s. This book connected me to a history of women in religious life and to a more fuller and complex understanding of God's nature that I had ever previously thought possible. Would it hit someone with the same impact today? It depends upon your...
