The faces of the goddess
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TextNew York Oxford University Press c1997Description: vii, 280p.; ill.; bibliog. refs.; appendices; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195089677
- BL325.M6 M68 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-270) and index.. Responsibility Lotte Motz.
1 The great mother. 2 The rise of a goddess in our time. 3 Reveerence of nature: Northern Eurasia. 4 The creativity of suffering: the Eskimo. 5 The lady of the manor: Latvia. 6 The human condition: Mesopotamia. 7 The mountain mother: Anatolia. 8 Demeter, the ravished earth: Greece. 9 The exaltation of death: Mexico. 10 Amaterasu and her sacred land: Japan
'...The image of a sovereign force in the shape of a human mother must have evolved at a time when man and his condition had moved to the center of the stage. The vision of the ruler of all life as a nurturing and basically loving being belongs to an age of some ease and comfort....The concept of the Great Mother belongs to an age of complexity and change, not to the time of grim struggle for survival....' --Introduction
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