The Language of the Goddess
10 best books like The Language of the Goddess (Marija Gimbutas): Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue), The Witches' Goddess, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, Ariadne's Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic, The Once and Future Goddess, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
| Author | Diane Wolkstein |
| ISBN | 0060908548 |
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period.
With the long-awaited publication of this book, we have for the first time in any modern literary form one of the most vital and important of ancient myths: that...
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0374504938 |
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who...
| Author | Monica Sjöö |
| ISBN | 0062507915 |
This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage.
Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important...
| Author | Riane Eisler |
| ISBN | 0062502891 |
Three stars because it was a pretty interesting read, and she covers, well, all of human history.
I read it because I know a number of people who claim this book fundamentally shaped their worldview (and a number of others who don't make that claim, but are certainly influenced by the popularity...
| 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 | Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson |
| ISBN | 0815624417 |
Most people know of Valhalla, the World-Tree and the gods of Norse mythology, or the strange hunts and voyages of the ancient Irish tales. Yet, few people realize the significance of the similarities and contrasts between the religions of the pre-Christian people of north-western Europe. The Celts...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Tikva Frymer-Kensky |
| ISBN | 0029108004 |
Provides an excellent overview of goddess worship from Sumerian times to the Hellenistic period, with particular emphasis upon understanding mythological narratives, polytheism in Ancient Israel, the status of women in the ancient Near East, and debunking certain myths about temple prostitution...
| 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 | Anne Ross |
| ISBN | 0897334353 |
Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this comprehensive, profusely illustrated volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. Dr. Anne Ross writes...
| Author | Ronald Hutton |
| ISBN | 0631189467 |
Wish I'd read this years ago. It presents itself as a summary of the evidence of ancient British religion for the general reader, which accounts for the first half of each chronological chapter, and which H. does extremely well (the answer being, in each case, that there isn't much). The fun starts, though,...
| Author | Tom Cowan |
| ISBN | 0062501747 |
In 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' William Butler Yeats refers to the ‘fire in the head’ that characterises the visionary experience. Tom Cowan has pursued this theme in a lyrical cross-cultural exploration of shamanism and the Celtic imagination that examines the myths and tales of the ancient...
| Author | Margaret Alice Murray |
| ISBN | 1595479813 |
This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic religion which finally overwhelmed it. I have traced...
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
Do You Know...
where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from?
why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages?
how the custom of kissing began?
whether there really was a female pope?
why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince?
The...
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Bollingen)
| Author | Erich Neumann |
| ISBN | 0691097429 |
Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual...
Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Myth & Reality of the Triple Goddess
| Author | D.J. Conway |
| ISBN | 0875421717 |
For over 2000 years, the symbol of the trinity has been represented by a male deity. Through this trinity people have looked for salvation and revelation. But the time has come to reveal the ancient truth, one that precedes the male interpretation of the spiritual journey by thousands of years. This...
