Starr GoodeSheela Na Gig
The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power
Starr Goode, MA, teaches writing and literature at Santa Monica College. An award winning writer, she has been profiled in the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. She was the producer and moderator for the cable TV series The Goddess in Art, the episodes of which are now housed in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum as well as available on YouTube. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Invitation In PART I History 1 Historical Overview: Agreements and
Disagreements 2 The Sheela as Sin 3 Celtic Connection 4 Medieval Mindset on
Pagan Soil 5 The Sheela’s Classical Forebears 6 The Dark Goddess of the
Neolithic 7 The Cave Art of the Paleolithic PART II Journeys 8 On the Trail
of the Sheelas: Ireland 9 On the Trail of the Sheelas: Great Britain PART
III Image 10 The Power of Images 11 The Creative Source 12 The Return of
the Goddess 13 The Secret of the Sheelas Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
Index About the Author