Goddesses; mysteries of the feminine divine

Editor's foreword. On the great goddess. 1 Myth and the feminine divine. 2 Goddess-mother-creator: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. 3 Indo-European influx. 4 Sumerian and Egyptian goddesses. 5 Goddesses and gods of the Greek pantheon. 6 Iliad and Odyssey: return to the goddess. 7 Mysteries of transformation. 8 Amor: the feminine in European romance. Appendix: Foreword to Marija Gimbutas's The language of the goddess

'...he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddessses, exploring the figures, functions, symbols, and themes of the feminine divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs....collects these lectures for the first time. In them, Campbell traces the evolution of the feminine divine from one Great Goddess to many, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance. He sheds new light on classical motifs and reveals how the feminine divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of transformation, initiation, and inspiration.'

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