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The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image

10 best books like The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image (Anne Baring): The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine, Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, 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 Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
AuthorRobert Graves
ISBN0374504938
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...
The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
AuthorMonica Sjöö
ISBN0062507915
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...
The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine
AuthorNancy Qualls-Corbett
ISBN0919123317
The ancient connection between spirituality and passionate love has in modern times become lost to the depths of the unconscious, leaving a broad sense of dissatisfaction and boredom in relationships. When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense...
Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other
AuthorJames Hollis
ISBN0919123805
This is my fourth Hollis book. Am I addicted? Possibly. The truth is, I have never found Jungian ideas so accessible or so relevant - that is until I read Hollis. I'm finding the framework of Jungian analysis such an enlightening tool to use when thinking about self and others. This book is a slim book but...
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0062502727
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...
The Once and Future Goddess
AuthorElinor W. Gadon
ISBN0062503545
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...
When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
AuthorLayne Redmond
ISBN0609801287
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....
The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
AuthorBarbara G. Walker
ISBN0062509233
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'...
Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
AuthorJoan Gould
ISBN0812975456
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden...
Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World
AuthorMerlin Stone
ISBN0807067512
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....
Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
AuthorMarion Woodman
ISBN1570623139
Dark, earthy, and immensely powerful, the Black Goddess has been a key force in world history, manifesting in images as diverse as the Indian goddess Kali and the Black Madonnas of medieval Europe. She embodies the energy of chaos and creativity, creation and destruction, death and rebirth. Images...
In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth
AuthorTikva Frymer-Kensky
ISBN0029108004
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...
Meeting the Madwoman: An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit
AuthorLinda Schierse Leonard
ISBN0553373188
The Madwoman is a powerful psychological and emotional energy that lives in us all--both men and women--and speaks to us all, inhabiting our dreams, our lives, our collective cultural memory. Ignored or suppressed, she becomes a force of self-destruction; acknowledged and understood, she becomes...
Kali: The Feminine Force
AuthorAjit Mookerjee
ISBN0892812125
If you know absolutely nothing about female deities in Hinduism, this might be useful to read. But the focus remains much more on the images than the actual text and there is much less emphasis on Kali herself than the title would suggest. For both of these reasons, I will be seeking out another book on the...
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images
AuthorMarija Gimbutas
ISBN0520046552
European civilization between 6500 and 3500 BC - long before Greek or Judaeo-Christian civilizations flourished - was not a provincial reflection of neighboring Near Eastern cultures but a distinct culture with its own unique identity. The mythical imagery of this matrilinear era tells us much...
The Book of SHE: Your Heroine's Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power
AuthorSara Avant Stover
ISBN1608682897
Follow Your Heroine’s Journey to Reclaim Feminine Power and Wisdom

Women face many challenging transitions on the pilgrimage from girlhood through womanhood: menses, love and heartbreak, motherhood, menopause. Devoid of a central narrative, these rites of passage too often happen...
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
AuthorKarl Kerényi
ISBN0691019150
The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions, " C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek...
Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life
AuthorJudith Viorst

From the bestselling author of Forever Fifty comes a new collection of poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty. Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- including It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty,...
Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History
AuthorRosemary Radford Ruether
ISBN0520250052
This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture—from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers...
Symbolism
AuthorMichael Gibson
ISBN3822870307
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Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body
AuthorRiane Eisler
ISBN0062502832
Let me begin with a series of quotes that I (and science) do not necessarily agree with.

1. To maintain relations of domination and submission, the natural bonding of the give and take of sexual pleasure and love between the female and male halves of humanity has to be distorted. Where does this...
The Feminine in Fairy Tales
AuthorMarie-Louise von Franz
In this engaging commentary, the distinguished analyst and author Marie-Louise von Franz shows how the Feminine reveals itself in fairy tales of German, Russian, Scandinavian, and Eskimo origin, including familiar stories such as "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White and Rose Red," and "Rumpelstiltskin."...
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