The concept of the goddess

The concept of the goddess [electronic resource] / edited by Sandra Billington and Miranda Green. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. - xiv, 192 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Concept of the Goddess / The Celtic Goddess as healer / Now you see her, now you don't: some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian tradition / Freyja and Frigg / Freyja--a goddess with many names / Meg and her daughters: some traces of goddess-beliefs in magalithic folklore? / Milk and the Northern Goddess / Coventina's well / Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses / Fors Fortuna in ancient Rome / Aspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland / The Causasian hunting-divinity, male and female: traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore / The Mistress of the animals in Japan: Yamanokami / Juliette Wood -- Miranda Green -- Catharina Raudvere -- Stephan Grundy -- Britt-Mari Näsström -- Samuel Pyeatt Menefee -- Hilda Ellis Davidson -- Lindsay Allason-Jones -- Glenys Lloyd-Morgan -- Transmutations of an Irish goddess / Máire Herbert -- Patricia Lysaght -- Anna Chaudhri -- Carmen Blacker.


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Goddesses.
Mitologia e mito
Religiao (historia)


Electronic books.

BL325.F4 / C65 1996eb

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