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A comprehensive study that draws upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. It explains what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.

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Part 1 The mother Goddess and her son-lover: in the beginning - the Paleolithic mother Goddess; the Neolithic great Goddess of Sky, Earth and Waters; Crete - the Goddess of Life, Death and Regeneration; the Bronze Age - the mother Goddess and her son-lover; Inanna-Ishtar - Mesopotamian Goddess of The Great Above and The Great Below; Isis of Egypt - Queen of heaven, Earth and Underworld; Tiamat of Babylon - the defeat of the Goddess; Goddesses of Greece - Gaia, Hera, Artemis and Athena. Part 2 The sacred marriage: Goddesses of Greece - Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone; Cybele - great Goddess of Anatolia and Rome; the Iron Age - the great father God Yahweh-Elohim; the hidden Goddess in the Old Testament; Eve - the mother of all living; Mary - the return of the Goddess; Sophia - mother, daughter and bride; the sacred marriage of Goddess and God - the reunion of nature and spirit. Appendices: prehistoric times; the Christian gospels.

The Myth of the Goddess

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 25 March 1993
      ISBN-13 9780140192926
      978-0140192926
      ISBN-10 0140192921
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society Folklore studies / Study of myth Theology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A comprehensive study that draws upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. It explains what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.

      Table of Contents
      Part 1 The mother Goddess and her son-lover: in the beginning - the Paleolithic mother Goddess; the Neolithic great Goddess of Sky, Earth and Waters; Crete - the Goddess of Life, Death and Regeneration; the Bronze Age - the mother Goddess and her son-lover; Inanna-Ishtar - Mesopotamian Goddess of The Great Above and The Great Below; Isis of Egypt - Queen of heaven, Earth and Underworld; Tiamat of Babylon - the defeat of the Goddess; Goddesses of Greece - Gaia, Hera, Artemis and Athena. Part 2 The sacred marriage: Goddesses of Greece - Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone; Cybele - great Goddess of Anatolia and Rome; the Iron Age - the great father God Yahweh-Elohim; the hidden Goddess in the Old Testament; Eve - the mother of all living; Mary - the return of the Goddess; Sophia - mother, daughter and bride; the sacred marriage of Goddess and God - the reunion of nature and spirit. Appendices: prehistoric times; the Christian gospels.

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