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The Mountain Goddess
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Author : Shelley Schanfield
language : en
Publisher: Shelley Schanfield
Release Date : 2016-10-04
The Mountain Goddess written by Shelley Schanfield and has been published by Shelley Schanfield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with India categories.
A beautiful warrior princess. A tormented prince. A terrible choice between love, duty, and spiritual freedom.
Mountain Goddess
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Author : William Sturman Sax
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1991
Mountain Goddess written by William Sturman Sax and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Through the cold snows of the Central Himalayas, gods and goddesses are regularly taken on ritual processions from village to village. Nandadevi, one of the most popular goddesses, is worshipped by peasant Hindus in almost every village in the high-altitude districts where India, Nepal, and Tibet meet. This elegant study follows an arduous pilgrimage over the Himalayan ice fields to uncover the reasons for the popularity of this bloodthirsty goddess. Sax discovers that Nandadevi's appeal stems from that fact that her mythology parallels the life-courses of the local peasant women: her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth. Demonstrating that daughters' bonds with their natal homes are so significant that they thematically dominate their religious complex, Sax argues that the Garwhali religious culture actually nurtures the social antagonism that exists between wife-givers and wife-takers throughout North India.
Goddess Of The Mountain Harvest
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Author : Brenda Gates Smith
language : en
Publisher: Onyx Books
Release Date : 1999
Goddess Of The Mountain Harvest written by Brenda Gates Smith and has been published by Onyx Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
In this new prehistoric novel by the author of "Secrets of the Ancient Goddess, " a village of peaceful harvesters, threatened by barbaric horsemen from the north, must choose between two powerful women for their high priestess to the Great Goddess--and decide the fate of every generation to come.
The Valley Of The Mountain Goddess
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Author : Joseph Narimattom
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-02-06
The Valley Of The Mountain Goddess written by Joseph Narimattom and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-06 with Fiction categories.
The adventures of two twelve-year-old boys from the Western Ghats of India who rescue a kidnapped girl in the legendary and dangerous jungles of the Valley of the Mountain Godess.
The Legend Of The Mountain God And The River Goddess
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Author : Brice Nguyen
language : en
Publisher: Brice Nguyen
Release Date : 2024-04-03
The Legend Of The Mountain God And The River Goddess written by Brice Nguyen and has been published by Brice Nguyen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-03 with Fiction categories.
The Legend of the Mountain God and the River Goddess is a classic Vietnamese folktale, a celebration of Vietnamese culture and values. This story shows us that the truest form of courage lies in seeking harmony where there is discord. Hoa's journey is a reminder that even the humblest hearts have the power to bridge divides and heal age-old rifts, reaffirming that peace is not just a truce between mighty forces, but a legacy left for every generation to uphold. The Legend of the Mountain God and the River Goddess is a timeless tale that continues to inspire people of all ages to this day.
The Faces Of The Goddess
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Author : Lotte Motz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-08-21
The Faces Of The Goddess written by Lotte Motz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-21 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The belief that the earliest humans worshipped a sovereign, nurturing, maternal earth goddess is a popular one. It has been taken up as fact by the media, who routinely depict modern goddess-worshippers as "reviving" the ancient religions of our ancestors. Feminist scholars contend that, in the primordial religions, the Great Mother was honored as the primary, creative force, giving birth to the world, granting fertility to both crops and humans, and ruling supreme over her family pantheon. The peaceful, matriarchal farming societies that worshipped her were eventually wiped out or subjugated by nomadic, patriarchal warrior tribes such as the early Hebrews, who brought their male God to overthrow the Great Mother: the first step in the creation and perpetuation of a brutal, male-dominated society and its attendant oppression and degradation of women. In The Faces of the Goddess, Lotte Motz sets out to test this hypothesis by examining the real female deities of early human cultures. She finds no trace of the Great Mother in their myths or in their worship. From the Eskimos of the arctic wasteland, whose harsh life even today most closely mirrors the earliest hunter gatherers, to the rich cultures of the sunny Fertile Crescent and the islands of Japan, Motz looks at a wide range of goddesses who are called Mother, or who give birth in their myths. She finds that these goddesses have varying origins as ancestor deities, animal protectors, and other divinities, rather than stemming from a common Mother Goddess archetype. For instance, Sedna, the powerful goddess whose chopped-off fingers became the seals and fish that were the Eskimos' chief source of food, had nothing to do with human fertility. Indeed, human motherhood was held in such low esteem that Eskimo women were forced to give birth completely alone, with no human companionship and no helpful deities of childbirth. Likewise, while various Mexican goddesses ruled over healing, women's crafts, motherhood and childbirth, and functioned as tribal protectors or divine ancestors, none of them either embodied the earth itself or granted fertility to the crops: for that the Mexicans looked to the male gods of maize and of rain. Nor were the rituals of these goddesses nurturing or peaceful. The goddess Cihuacoatl, who nurtured the creator god Quetzalcoatl and helped him create humanity, was worshipped with human sacrifices who were pushed into a fire, removed while still alive, and their hearts were cut out. And Motz closely examines the Anatolian goddess Cybele, the "Magna Mater" most often cited as an example of a powerful mother goddess. Hers were the last of the great pagan mysteries of the Mediterranean civilizations to fall before Christianity. But Cybele herself never gives birth, nor does she concern herself with aiding women in childbirth or childrearing. She is not herself a mother, and the male character figuring most prominently in her myths is Attis, her chaste companion. Tellingly, Cybele's priests dedicate themselves to her by castrating themselves, thus mimicking Attis's death--a very odd way to venerate a goddess of fertility. To depict these earlier goddesses as peaceful and nurturing mothers, as is often done, is to deny them their own complex and sophisticated nature as beings who were often violent and vengeful, delighting in sacrifice, or who reveled in their eroticism and were worshipped as harlots. The idea of a nurturing Mother Goddess is very powerful. In this challenging book, however, Motz shows that She is a product of our own age, not of earlier ones. By discarding this simplistic and worn-out paradigm, we can open the door to a new way of thinking about feminine spirituality and religious experience.
Mountain Goddess
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Author : William Sturman Sax
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 1991
Mountain Goddess written by William Sturman Sax and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Law categories.
Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones. This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands' homes. Mountain Goddessis an anthropological study of this pilgrimage and the cult of Nandadevi, especially as they relate to local women's lives. The author shows how Nandadevi's appeal stems from the fact that her mythology parallels the life-courses of the local peasant women, and that her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth. Drawing on formal Indian theories, verbal commentaries, songs, interviews, articles, propaganda, legends, pan-Indian Sanskrit liturgies, historical documents, and the author's remarkable personal account of the pilgrimage, this gripping narrative is a unique resource for courses in the anthropology of religion, Hinduism, and folklore, ritual, and gender studies.
Mountain Witches
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Author : Noriko T. Reider
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2021-07-01
Mountain Witches written by Noriko T. Reider and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present. In recent years yamauba have attracted much attention among scholars of women’s literature as women unconstrained by conformative norms or social expectations, but this is the first book to demonstrate how these figures contribute to folklore, Japanese studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. Situating the yamauba within the construct of yōkai and archetypes, Noriko T. Reider investigates the yamauba attributes through the examination of narratives including folktales, literary works, legends, modern fiction, manga, and anime. She traces the lineage of a yamauba image from the seventh-century text Kojiki to the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, and explores its emergence as well as its various, often conflicting, characteristics. Reider also examines the adaptation and re-creation of the prototype in diverse media such as modern fiction, film, manga, anime, and fashion in relation to the changing status of women in Japanese society. Offering a comprehensive overview of the development of the yamauba as a literary and mythic trope, Mountain Witches is a study of an archetype that endures in Japanese media and folklore. It will be valuable to students, scholars, and the general reader interested in folklore, Japanese literature, demonology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and the visual and performing arts.
Mountain Goddess Diana S Story
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Author : K. Mackey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08-02
Mountain Goddess Diana S Story written by K. Mackey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-02 with categories.
After seeing her son Kurt off to college Diana cautiously continues to explore the dating world with a younger man. Just as things were heating up between them Greg's dream of becoming a famous comedian gets in the way of their future together. He realizes too late how much he cares for Diana as she slowly moves forward with Tom Walters a widower still mourning the passing of his wife. Tom's first impression of Diana warms his blood as he secretly observes the sexy interaction she has with a bald man on his neighbors' back deck. Nearly a year later he happens to meet her in person during a business meeting. During their meeting he feels compelled to get to know Diana better. With time her presence in his life releases him from the difficult memories of Lucy his dead wife. Diana's other entertaining adventures include vacations with her married best friend Lisa. Lisa Goldman is a bold woman with the financial means to explore risky over indulgent whims and to satisfy her unusual cravings for an exciting experience. Her swinger type life style creates the atmosphere for some interesting encounters.Other colorful characters include Lonnie Chase a twenty eight year old tattooed radio personality that can't manage to be faithful to his girlfriend Valerie. Andre Nord Tom's kinky eccentric friend from France and Chuck Rollins Tom's best friend and business partner from San Diego. Diana Stewart is Mountain Goddess. Her story is told in the first publication in author K A Mackey's line of erotic romance novels featuring the lives of modern day goddesses. Diana's story takes her from years as a divorced Los Angeles radio personality back to her home in a small resort town outside Denver. She is determined to support her family by taking over the operation of a small broadcasting company owned by her ailing uncle. The change she makes to her life creates more adventure then she dreamed possible. Join Diana in a unique, engagingly erotic and arousing journey into a satisfying world that she never conceived she could be worthy of.
Becoming A Mountain
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Author : Stephen Alter
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Becoming A Mountain written by Stephen Alter and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt like a foreigner in the land of his birth. This book is his account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence—to Bandar Punch (the monkey’s tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He set himself this goal to prove that he had healed mentally as well as physically and to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, a way to rediscover mountains in his inner landscape. Weaving together observations of the natural world, Himalayan history, folklore and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving meditation on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains.
