The Myth of the Goddess Evolution of an Image

by Cashford, Jules; Baring, Anne; Van Der Post, Laurens

• ISBN13: 9780140192926
• ISBN10: 0140192921
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

"An indispensable source work for anyone interested in this very important development of religious ideas."--Marija Gimbutas. Ranges from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia Hypothesis.

Author Biography

Jules Cashford writes and lectures on mythology and is the author of The Myth of the Goddess.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
The Mother Goddess and Her Son-Lover
In the Beginning: The Palaeolithic Mother Goddess	p. 3
The Neolithic Great Goddess of Sky, Earth and Waters	p. 46
Crete: The Goddess of Life, Death and Regeneration	p. 106
The Bronze Age: The Mother Goddess and Her Son-Lover	p. 145
Inanna-Ishtar: Mesopotamian Goddess of the Great Above and the Great Below	p. 175
Isis of Egypt: Queen of Heaven, Earth and Underworld	p. 225
Tiamat of Babylon: The Defeat of the Goddess	p. 273
Goddesses of Greece: Gaia, Hera, Artemis and Athena	p. 299
The Sacred Marriage
Goddesses of Greece: Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone	p. 349
Cybele: Great Goddess of Anatolia and Rome	p. 391
The Iron Age: The Great Father God Yahweh-Elohim	p. 416
The Hidden Goddess in the Old Testament	p. 447
Eve: The Mother of All Living	p. 486
Mary: The Return of the Goddess	p. 547
Sophia: Mother, Daughter and Bride	p. 609
The Sacred Marriage of Goddess and God: The Reunion of Nature and Spirit	p. 659
Appendix 1: Prehistoric Times	p. 683
Appendix 2: The Christian Gospels	p. 685
Notes and References	p. 689
Select Bibliography	p. 725
Acknowledgements	p. 737
Picture Sources	p. 743
Index	p. 753
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