Author : Barbara G. Walker
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Through an analysis of biblical appropriation of Goddess-based religions and women interviewees' comments, the author of Feminist Fairy Tales and The Women's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects reveals women's growing discovery of "thealogy" alternatives to patriarchal theology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Barbara G. Walker
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1615922334
Hearkening back to the widespread worship of a mother goddess at the dawn of civilization, Walker argues for a restoration of this primal religious sensibility which celebrated the Earth's fertility and woman's innate power to bear new life.
Author : Kate Osborne
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738763578
Connect with the Power of Goddesses from Around the World This inspiring book introduces you to Eingana, Lilith, Pandora, Sedna, Hekate, Oya, and nearly a dozen other incredible goddesses whose stories will empower you in a myriad of ways. Each deity's tale contains a unique energy, encouraging you to navigate the path of self-discovery, develop your personal power, and find emotional wellbeing. Kate Osborne shares affirmations, meditations, ceremonies, mirror and labyrinth work, and more—all of it designed to help you engage with the goddesses' mythology. Free yourself from emotional bondage with the story of Hine-nui-te-p?, seek redemption with Skadi's tale, and nurture your creations with Gaia. You'll also use rituals, mantras, and exercises to heal and express yourself. Whenever life throws a curveball, these goddesses' stories will uplift and strengthen you.
Author : Glenys Livingstone
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0595349900
PaGaian Cosmology brings together a religious practice of seasonal ritual based in a contemporary scientific sense of the cosmos and female imagery for the Sacred. The author situates this original synthesis in her context of being female and white European transplanted to the Southern Hemisphere. Her sense of alienation from her place, which is personal, cultural and cosmic, fires a cosmology that re-stories Goddess metaphor of Virgin-Mother-Crone as a pattern of Creativity, which unfolds the cosmos, manifests in Earth's life, and may be known intimately. PaGaian Cosmology is an ecospirituality grounded in indigenous Western religious celebration of the Earth-Sun annual cycle. By linking to story of the unfolding universe this practice can be deepened, and a sense of the Triple Goddess-central to the cycle and known in ancient cultures-developed as a dynamic innate to all being. The ritual scripts and the process of ritual events presented here, may be a journey into self-knowledge through personal, communal and ecological story: the self to be known is one that is integral with place. PaGaian Cosmology may be used as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within.
Author : Barbara G. Walker
Publisher : Stellar House Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0979963141
Extraordinary independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology Walker examines a time when the Goddess and her consort/son ruled supreme and forward into the era when the patriarchy usurped Her worship.
Author : Anne Baring
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1993-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0141941405
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.
Author : David Leeming
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1780235380
For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.
Author : Sophie Bashford
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1788171772
Discover the inner Goddess energies that lie within you through nine Goddess archetypes—an empowering guide on finding healing, strength, and transformation, for readers of Warrior Goddess Training The Goddess is guiding your life . . . You know 'the Goddess' as a divine feminine figure of myth, art and faith—but are you aware that, in truth, the Goddess is a life force that lives in you? Did you know that your multi-faceted experiences of life as a woman are influenced by Goddess consciousness? Do you sense that you have a hidden feminine energy that longs to be seen, accepted, valued—and used for a healing purpose? In this highly engaging and stirring book, leading intuitive Sophie Bashford takes you on a journey to meet nine Goddess archetypes, which will help you to: • Understand the many ups and downs, emotions and cycles of your life through the ‘eyes of the Goddess’ • Discover how the Goddesses can ignite your spiritual growth and uncover your feminine healing gifts • Learn how to work with each Goddess for self-healing, positive inner change and empowerment • Get in touch with a divine feminine support and healing system comprising nine archetypes, including Kali, Mary Magdalene, Aphrodite and Isis Sharing intuitively channeled messages, beautiful guided meditations and moving personal experiences, Sophie leads you into safe territories where your darkest inner fears can be healed, your deepest dreams awakened and your entire life transformed.
Author : Katherine K. Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0773576835
How some feminists have used religion to turn the "Fall of Man" into the fall of men.
Author : Tony Scazzero
Publisher : Tony Scazzero
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Most people become upset and even angry when it’s suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be called God the Mother. Yet a society that reveres the feminine creates beauty, love, and equality. More importantly, the return of Mother God is needed as conferring with Her will improve our thinking to better handle the challenges of life. The future prosperity of all countries would be ensured if men and women equally shared tasks working side by side. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that humanity will benefit from a kinder gender-balanced divinity. Since God is the male/female parent of all mankind, until the Divine Mother is welcome back into our hearts, humanity cannot fulfil their potential. Mother God brings the highest awareness with limitless nurturing.
