The Once and Future Goddess
10 best books like The Once and Future Goddess (Elinor W. Gadon): The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm, Shakkai: Women of the Sacred Garden, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot, Making the Gods Work for You: The Astrological Language of the Psyche, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World, The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries: Feminist Witchcraft, Goddess Rituals, Spellcasting and Other Womanly Arts
| 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 | 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 | 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....
"Words are a sacred tool and must be honored as such. When used carefully, words have magical healing properties. When used to judge, to hate, or to separate, words are deadly. The words you will be using in this workbook are your basic tools for healing on this journey. Treat them with respect. Honor...
| 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 | 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 | Caroline W. Casey |
| ISBN | 0609802747 |
Making the Gods Work for You presents internationally renowned author Caroline W. Casey's remarkable doctrine of Visionary Activist Astrology. In this reverently irreverent mystery school disguised as a book (in which each of the planetary gods is a professor), we are invited to think of our lives...
| 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 | 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 | Ajit Mookerjee |
| ISBN | 0892812125 |
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...
| 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 | Marion Weinstein |
| ISBN | 1564146383 |
Marion Weinstein was one of the first witches to release a Book of Shadows to the public. Here is the revised and updated version of Earth Magic, the author's personal book of magical practice, made available for today's Witches. Based on an indepth study of the many facets of Witchcraft, Earth Magic...
Everything you need to know about herbs, both the mundane and the magical, is here From using hydroponic magic to brewing herb wine fit for the gods, you'll find over 125 spells invocations, rituals, and recipes for your magical gardening practices. This gardening grimoire also includes easy techniques...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Ly de Angeles |
| ISBN | 0738708240 |
Do Pagan practices lead to an ecological approach to life? What is the role of magic in contemporary Paganism? How can ancient Pagan codes of behavior be applied today?
Representing diverse arenas of Paganism, eleven established activists, authors and academics passionately debate the critical...
