The Concept of the Goddess (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Billington, Sandra; Green, Miranda

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is an up-to-date, highly readable study of the female aspects of religion both in past and present mythologies. It explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134641529
• Artikelnr.: 42981873

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