Sandra Billington / Miranda Green (eds.)

The Concept of the Goddess

Herausgeber: Billington, Sandra; Green, Miranda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780415197892
• ISBN-10: 0415197899
• Artikelnr.: 22105506

Autorenporträt

Sandra Billington, Miranda Green

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface: the life and work of Hilda Ellis Davidson
Introduction
1 The concept of the Goddess
2 The Celtic Goddess as healer
3 Now you see her
now you don't: some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian traditions
4 Freyja and Frigg
5 Freyja-a goddess with many names
6 Meg and her Daughters: some traces of goddess-beliefs in megalithic folklore?
7 Milk and the Northern Goddess
8 Coventina's Well
9 Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses
10 Fors Fortuna in Ancient Rome
11 Transmutations of an Irish goddess
12 Aspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland
13 The Caucasian hunting-divinity
male and female: traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore
14 The Mistress of the Animals in Japan: Yamanokami
Index