The Goddess : Myths of the Great Mother / Christopher R. Fee & David Leeming

By:

Fee, Christopher R

Contributor(s):

Leeming, David

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Reaktion Books, 2016.Edition: 1st edDescription: 176 p.: ill.; 13.97 x 3.81 x 21.59 cmISBN:

9781780235097

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 202.114 FEE

Contents:

Introduction: the many guises of the goddess I The dawn of the Indian goddess II The religious conversion of the near eastern goddess III The scourge of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean goddess IV The battle lust of the northern goddess V The seductive destruction of the goddess of the western isles

Summary: Annotation For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind's earliest agricultural civilisations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature's fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. The authors take us back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Religion	Non-fiction	202.114 FEE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		47915

Introduction: the many guises of the goddess
I The dawn of the Indian goddess
II The religious conversion of the near eastern goddess
III The scourge of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean goddess
IV The battle lust of the northern goddess
V The seductive destruction of the goddess of the western isles

Annotation For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind's earliest agricultural civilisations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature's fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. The authors take us back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are

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