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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.