The concept of the goddess /
The concept of the goddess /
edited by Sandra Billington and Miranda Green.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages) : illustrations
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Concept of the Goddess / The Celtic Goddess as healer / Now you see her, now you don't: some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian tradition / Freyja and Frigg / Freyja--a goddess with many names / Meg and her daughters: some traces of goddess-beliefs in magalithic folklore? / Milk and the Northern Goddess / Coventina's well / Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses / Fors Fortuna in ancient Rome / Aspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland / The Causasian hunting-divinity, male and female: traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore / The Mistress of the animals in Japan: Yamanokami / Juliette Wood -- Miranda Green -- Catharina Raudvere -- Stephan Grundy -- Britt-Mari Näsström -- Samuel Pyeatt Menefee -- Hilda Ellis Davidson -- Lindsay Allason-Jones -- Glenys Lloyd-Morgan -- Transmutations of an Irish goddess / Máire Herbert -- Patricia Lysaght -- Anna Chaudhri -- Carmen Blacker.
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 that goddesses have also assumed more masculine roles, with war, hunting and sovereignty being equally important aspects of their cults.
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MYILIB_CUp
Goddesses.
Déesses.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Goddesses
Mitologia e mito.
Religiao (historia)
BL325.F4 / C65 1996eb
291.2/114
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Concept of the Goddess / The Celtic Goddess as healer / Now you see her, now you don't: some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian tradition / Freyja and Frigg / Freyja--a goddess with many names / Meg and her daughters: some traces of goddess-beliefs in magalithic folklore? / Milk and the Northern Goddess / Coventina's well / Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses / Fors Fortuna in ancient Rome / Aspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland / The Causasian hunting-divinity, male and female: traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore / The Mistress of the animals in Japan: Yamanokami / Juliette Wood -- Miranda Green -- Catharina Raudvere -- Stephan Grundy -- Britt-Mari Näsström -- Samuel Pyeatt Menefee -- Hilda Ellis Davidson -- Lindsay Allason-Jones -- Glenys Lloyd-Morgan -- Transmutations of an Irish goddess / Máire Herbert -- Patricia Lysaght -- Anna Chaudhri -- Carmen Blacker.
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 that goddesses have also assumed more masculine roles, with war, hunting and sovereignty being equally important aspects of their cults.
0203456386 9780203456385 9780415197892 0415197899 9780415144216 0415144213
MYILIB_CUp
Goddesses.
Déesses.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Goddesses
Mitologia e mito.
Religiao (historia)
BL325.F4 / C65 1996eb
291.2/114