Helen Benigni

The Mythology of Venus

Ancient Calendars and Archaeoastronomy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons and myths identified with the planet Venus. This book reveals the archetype of a goddess associated with the planet Venus who is identified with transformation, spiritual resurrection, and enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780761860624
• ISBN-10: 0761860622
• Artikelnr.: 36762325

Autorenporträt

Helen Benigni graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1989. She is a professor at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, where she teaches comparative mythology, composition, and literature. Her other works include The Myth of the Year: Returning to the Origin of the Druid Calendar (2003) and The Goddess and the Bull: A Study in Minoan-Mycenaean Mythology (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Morgan Llywelyn Preface Helen Benigni Acknowledgements 1. The
Emergence of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the Paleolithic and Neolithic
Era Helen Benigni 2. The Epiphany of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the
Bronze and Iron Age Helen Benigni 3. Love Goddesses of the Early Historic
Age Miriam Robbins Dexter 4. Venus, The Caillichín na Mochóirighe of
Newgrange, Ireland Anthony Murphy Appendix I: The Astronomy of the Nights
of Venus Barbara Carter Appendix II: The Eight Year Cycle of Venus Barbara
Carter Appendix III: Of K'uk'ulcán and Quetazlcóatl, Venus in Mesoamerica
R.P. Hale Index Plates About the Authors