THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS Evolution of an Image

Jules Cashford & Anne Baring

ISBN 10: 0670835641 / ISBN 13: 9780670835645

Edité par Viking Arkana, London, 1992

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Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Penciled notes and markings throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 800 pages.

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• Titre: THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS Evolution of an Image
• Éditeur: Viking Arkana, London
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670835641
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670835645
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
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Synopsis

This book traces the evolution of ideas and images of the goddess in the West from prehistoric times, through Crete, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and the Middle East to her manifestation in Judaism (Eve etc), Christianity (Mary) and agnosticism (Sophia). The perspective is historical with Jungian overtones. Images are interpreted, not merely presented, and it is argued that the goddess needs to play a more valued role today.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.