Book Description
Embark on a literal and spiritual journey of discovery and rediscovery as you explore the ancient world of women-centered culture and the reemergence of goddess consciousness in modern women's lives. Part celebration, part travelogue, and part historical research, this compelling work takes you on a tour of places of historical significance, offering explanations and discussions of artifacts and drawings and their relationship to the goddess of earth and cosmos. Visit Greek temples, prehistoric caves, stone circles, giant passage mounds, and other monuments. At each site, the author draws upon her own experiences and adeptly combines them with ancient traditions, archaeology, and mythology to beautifully conjure landscapes imprinted with the symbolic form of women.
Body of the Goddess: Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture FROM THE PUBLISHER
In her research for The Body of the Goddess, Rachel Pollack explored a variety of sacred places, dating from different eras and created by different cultures, including Greek temples, prehistoric caves, stone circles, giant passage mounds and other mysterious monuments across the European landscape and elsewhere. Examining each place in turn, she adeptly combines ancient traditions, archaeology, mythology and her own personal experiences to conjure landscapes imprinted with the symbolic form of women. A compelling and joyous work, The Body of the Goddess continually stresses the Goddess's power of renewal and the strength to be drawn from a life-giving, nurturing female deity springing, like Demeter, from the Earth itself. Part celebration, part travelogue and part historical research into the origins of religion, The Body of the Goddess is a literal and spiritual journey of discovery and rediscovery.
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