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Titolo |
The concept of the goddess / / edited by Sandra Billington and Miranda Green |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-31734-5 |
1-134-64152-4 |
1-134-64151-6 |
0-203-45638-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BillingtonSandra |
Aldhouse-GreenMiranda J (Miranda Jane) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface: the life and work of Hilda Ellis Davidson; Introduction; 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 traditions; Freyja and Frigg; Freyja; a goddess with many names; Meg and her Daughters: some traces of goddess-beliefs in megalithic folklore?; Milk and the Northern Goddess; Coventina's Well; Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses; Fors Fortuna in Ancient Rome |
Transmutations of an Irish goddessAspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland; The Caucasian hunting-divinity, male and female: traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore; The Mistress of the Animals in Japan: Yamanokami; Index |
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The Concept of the Goddess explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures, including:* Celtic* Roman* Norse* Caucasian* Japanese traditions.The contributors explore the reasons for the existence of so many goddesses in the mythology of patriarchal societies and show that goddesses have also assumed more |
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