The faces of the goddess /
Many contemporary feminists believe that early humans worshipped a nurturing Mother Goddess, who was subsequently displaced by autocratic male deities. This book examines the maternal deities of various cultures and religions and finds no signs of a common origin, and thus no evidence for a primordi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The great mother-- The rise of a goddess in our time
- Reverence of nature : Northern Eurasia
- The creativity of suffering : the Eskimo
- The lady of the manor : Lativa
- The human condition : Mesopotamia
- The mountain mother : Anatolia
- Demeter, the ravished earth : Greece
- The exaltation of death : Mexico
- Amaterasu and her sacred land : Japan.