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"In ancient Babylon she was Anat, in Egypt, Isis and Hathor, Dana in Celtic Ireland, Rhea and Demeter in Greece, and in India, Anapurna the "Provider." She is the Great Goddess, the symbol of earth and the giver of life, the Vast Mother, who represented all the powers and mysteries of creation for our ancestors." "In this comprehensive exploration of the Goddess figure, Jean Markale, one of today's foremost Celtic historians, examines how over time patriarchal societies tried to force the preeminent power of the feminine into an obscure and subservient position, shifting her solar association onto masculine deities and discrediting those of her symbols, like the serpent, that could not be easily assimilated. With its extensive investigation of all the myths, sites, and sanctuaries devoted to this influential figure, The Great Goddess provides us with abundant evidence of the extraordinary permanence of her worship--even at the heart of those religions that tried to destroy her." "Markale explains how the Goddess did not simply disappear when her position was usurped, but went underground, resurfacing time and again in altered but distinctly recognizable forms. The great solar goddess of Celtic culture reappears as the mythical Grainne and in the well-known legend of Tristan and Iseult. Features of the primordial Lilith, relegated to darkness in rabbinical tradition, can be discerned in the incomprehensible Black Virgins of Christian sanctuaries. And one of the key figures of modern Christianity, the Virgin Mary, possesses all the characteristics of the ancient Mother Goddess: wisdom, beneficence, nurturance, and sacred sexuality. Whether in Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, Celtic Europe, or the present day, the goddess played, and continues to play, an integral part in society's need to connect with the source of all creation. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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The book presents in depth histories of the cults of seven major goddesses and many excerpts from their literature--hymns, prayers, and magical spells as well as descriptions of ritual, temples and clergy.
Goddesses, Egyptian --- Egypt --- Religion.
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Goddesses, Indic --- Women and religion --- Women and spiritualism
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"This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of this goddess, called Matar Kubileya in Phrygia, Kybele in ancient Greece, and Magna Mater (the Great Mother) in Rome. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data ranging from the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. This book will interest classicists, archaeologists, ancient historians, historians of religion and religious ecology, and everyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Great Mother goddess in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Book jacket.
Cybele (Goddess) --- -Goddesses --- -Female gods --- Cult --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquities. --- Goddesses. --- Cult. --- Mother goddesses --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Cybèle (Déesse) --- Déesses mères --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Culte --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Religion --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Goddesses --- Female gods --- Gods
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Athena (Greek deity) --- Goddesses, Greek --- Cults --- Mythology, Greek --- Athéna (divinité grecque) --- Déesses grecques --- Cultes --- Mythologie grecque --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion --- Religion
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"This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of this goddess, called Matar Kubileya in Phrygia, Kybele in ancient Greece, and Magna Mater (the Great Mother) in Rome. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data ranging from the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. This book will interest classicists, archaeologists, ancient historians, historians of religion and religious ecology, and everyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Great Mother goddess in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Book jacket.
Goddesses --- Goddesses. --- Medea (Greek mythology) in literature --- European Religions - pre-Christian --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Female gods --- Gods --- Cybele --- Cibela --- Cibele --- Cibeles --- Kybēbē --- Kibela --- Kibele --- Kubaba --- Kübelé --- Kubeleya --- Kubileya --- Kuvava --- Kybelē --- Kybelis --- Matar Kubileya --- Matar Kubeleya --- Cult. --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquities.
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Goddesses, Hindu. --- védisme --- brahmanisme --- hindouisme --- déesses védiques --- la Grande Déesse --- les Mères --- les Grandes révélations --- déesses de village --- le Caktisme --- les Thugs --- le culte de la déesse --- dévotion mystique
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This is the first systematic study of the cults of the Bosporan Kingdom, which existed in South Russia in the first centuries AD. The research is based on a variety of sources: archaeological evidence and inscriptions, largely unknown to the non-Russian readers, as well as historical and literary texts. The religion of the Bosporus is viewed in this monograph as a blend of Greek and indigenous Iranian traditions. Its first part is dedicated to the cult of Celestial Aphrodite. The second part examines the controversial cult of the Most High God and its alledged Jewish affinities. The book, illustrated with thirty figures, is an important contribution to the understanding of the religious life in Greek colonies, and the history of Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity.
Gods --- Gods, Greek --- Aphrodite (Greek deity) --- Dieux --- Dieux grecs --- Aphrodite (Divinité grecque) --- History --- Cult --- Religion --- Histoire --- Culte --- Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine and Russia) --- Kertch, Détroit de (Ukraine et Russie) --- -Gods --- -Gods, Greek --- Deities --- Divine beings --- Divinities --- Theomachy --- 292.211 --- Mythology, Classical --- Misotheism --- Mythology --- Religions --- Greek gods --- Cult&delete& --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman Gods, goddesses, divinities and deities --- Religion. --- History. --- Aphrodite --- Kerch Strait (Ukraine and Russia) --- Aφροδίτη --- Cytherea --- Cypris --- Acidalia --- Cerigo --- Afrodite --- أفروديت --- Afrūdīt --- Afrodita --- Афрадыта --- Afradyta --- Афродита --- Afrodito --- 아프로디테 --- Ap'ŭrodit'e --- ʻAperodite --- Aprodita --- Afrodit --- אפרודיטה --- Afrodiṭah --- アプロディーテー --- Afrodyta --- Afërdita --- Афродіта --- 阿佛洛狄忒 --- Afoluodite --- Kypris --- Gods - Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine and Russia) - History. --- Gods, Greek - Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine and Russia) - History. --- Aphrodite (Greek deity) - Cult - Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine and Russia) - History.
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