The Valley Of The Mountain Goddess

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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.

Goddesses Who Rule

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Author : Elisabeth Benard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-21

Goddesses Who Rule written by Elisabeth Benard 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 2000-09-21 with Religion categories.

Goddesses often are labeled as one-dimensional forces of nature or fertility. In examining a number of goddesses whose primary role is sovereignty, this volume reveals the rich diversity of goddess traditions. Drawn from a variety of cultural and historical settings, the goddesses described here include Inanna of ancient Sumer, Oshun of Nigeria, and Cihuacoatl of pre-historical America.

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.

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada Etc

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Author : Montgomery Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada Etc written by Montgomery Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Canada categories.

Ed Of The Englishman S Guide Book C

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Author : Montgomery Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

Ed Of The Englishman S Guide Book C written by Montgomery Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.

Lippincott S General Guide Book To The United States And Canada Third Edition With Appendix Describing The Philadelphia Exhibition Of 1876

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Author : j. b Lippincott (Publisher, of Philadelphia.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

Lippincott S General Guide Book To The United States And Canada Third Edition With Appendix Describing The Philadelphia Exhibition Of 1876 written by j. b Lippincott (Publisher, of Philadelphia.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada

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Author : Englishman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada written by Englishman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.

Buried In The Sky The Extraordinary Story Of The Sherpa Climbers On K2 S Deadliest Day

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Author : Peter Zuckerman
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2012-06-11

Buried In The Sky The Extraordinary Story Of The Sherpa Climbers On K2 S Deadliest Day written by Peter Zuckerman and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-11 with Sports & Recreation categories.

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature "Gripping, intense…Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]." —Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world’s most dangerous mountain, recounting one of the most dramatic disasters in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective. Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award and an official selection of the American Alpine Club Book Club.

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada By M Gibbs With Appendix Containing The Shooting And Fishing Grounds Of North America

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Author : Montgomery Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada By M Gibbs With Appendix Containing The Shooting And Fishing Grounds Of North America written by Montgomery Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada

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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-11-20

The Englishman S Illustrated Guide Book To The United States And Canada written by Anonymous and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-20 with Fiction categories.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.