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001 2013030964
003 DLC
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008 130731s2013 cauab b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2013030964
020 $a9781608681822 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$cICU$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBL473.5$b.C36 2013
082 00 $a202/.114$223
100 1 $aCampbell, Joseph,$d1904-1987,$eauthor.
245 10 $aGoddesses :$bmysteries of the feminine divine /$cJoseph Campbell ; edited by Safron Rossi, Ph.D.
264 1 $aNovato, California :$bJoseph Campbell Foundation ;$bNew World Library,$c2013.
300 $axxvi, 304 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Previously uncollected lectures and writings that trace the evolution of the Goddess, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance, and interpret classical motifs. Offers insight into self-actualization for women. Edited and introduced by the executive director of the Opus Archives and Research Center"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index.
505 0 $aOn the great goddess -- Myth and the feminine divine -- The goddess in Paleolithic cultures -- The goddess as nature -- Goddess-mother creator: Neolithic and early Bronze age -- Stone to copper: Anatolia and old Europe -- Copper to bronze: Crete -- Indo-European influx -- Spears and languages -- Burial mounds and suttee -- Mycenae -- Sumerian and Egyptian goddesses -- The abstract field: rise of civilization -- The Semitic influx: Sargon and Hammurabi -- Myth of Isis and Osiris -- Goddesses and gods of the Greek pantheon -- Artemis -- Apollo -- Dionysus -- Zeus -- Ares -- Athena -- Iliad and Odyssey: return to the goddess -- The judgment of Paris -- The Iliad -- The Odyssey -- Mysteries of transformation -- The once and future goddess -- Mystery cults -- The abduction of Persephone -- Dionysus and the feminine divine -- Amor: the feminine in European romance -- Virgin Mary -- The court of love -- The renaissance of the goddess -- Lift-off -- Appendix: foreword to language of the goddess by Marija Gimbutas -- Goddess studies: essential reading.
650 0 $aGoddesses.
650 0 $aMythology, Greek.
651 0 $aGreece$xReligion.
651 0 $aEgypt$xReligion.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xReligion.
650 0 $aGoddesses in literature.
700 1 $aRossi, Safron.