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The concept of the goddess /

The Concept of the Goddess explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures, including:* Celtic* Roman* Norse* Caucasian* Japanese traditions. The contributors explore the reasons for the existence of so many goddesses in the mythology of patriarchal societies and show...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Billington, Sandra, Aldhouse-Green, Miranda J. (Miranda Jane)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Concept of the Goddess / Juliette Wood
  • The Celtic Goddess as healer / Miranda Green
  • Now you see her, now you don't: some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian tradition / Catharina Raudvere
  • Freyja and Frigg / Stephan Grundy
  • Freyja--a goddess with many names / Britt-Mari Näsström
  • Meg and her daughters: some traces of goddess-beliefs in magalithic folklore? / Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
  • Milk and the Northern Goddess / Hilda Ellis Davidson
  • Coventina's well / Lindsay Allason-Jones
  • Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses / Glenys Lloyd-Morgan
  • Fors Fortuna in ancient Rome / Transmutations of an Irish goddess / Máire Herbert
  • Aspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland / Patricia Lysaght
  • The Causasian hunting-divinity, male and female: traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore / Anna Chaudhri
  • The Mistress of the animals in Japan: Yamanokami / Carmen Blacker.