The Body of the Goddess Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture

by Pollack, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781843331261
• ISBN10: 1843331268
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Vega

Summary

In her research for The Body of the Goddess, Rachel Pollack explored a variety of sacred places, dating from different eras and created by different cultures, including Greek temples, prehistoric caves, stone circles, giant passage mounds and other mysterious monuments across the European landscape and elsewhere. Examining each place in turn, she adeptly combines ancient traditions, archaeology, mythology and her own personal experiences to conjure landscapes imprinted with the symbolic form of women. A compelling and joyous work, The Body of the Goddess continually stresses the Goddess's power of renewal and the strength to be drawn from a life-giving, nurturing female deity springing, like Demeter, from the Earth itself. Part celebration, part travelogue and part historical research into the origins of religion, The Body of the Goddess is a literal and spiritual journey of discovery and rediscovery. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Rachel Pollack was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. She holds an honours degree in English from New York University, a Masters in English from Claremont Graduate School and has taught English at New York State University

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vi
List of Plate Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Introduction: The Spiraling Journey of Images	p. 1
How Can the Goddess Have a Body?	p. 9
The Visible and Invisible Body	p. 29
The Painted Stone Body	p. 55
The Constructed Stone Body	p. 81
The Constructed Stone Body - Part 2	p. 101
The Body in the Land	p. 139
The Body in Song	p. 165
The Body With the Dead	p. 197
The Body Alive	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 251
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