The concept of the goddess

The Concept of the Goddess / Juliette Wood -- The Celtic Goddess as healer / Miranda Green -- Now you see her, now you don't : some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian tradition / Catharina Raudvere -- Freyja and Frigg / Stephan Grundy -- Freyja--a goddess with many...

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Contributors: Billington, Sandra (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Routledge 1999
In:Year: 1999
Further subjects:B Déesses Mythology
B Déesses
B Déesses Culte
B Goddesses
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Summary:The Concept of the Goddess / Juliette Wood -- The Celtic Goddess as healer / Miranda Green -- Now you see her, now you don't : some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian tradition / Catharina Raudvere -- Freyja and Frigg / Stephan Grundy -- Freyja--a goddess with many names / Britt-Mari Nasstrom -- Meg and her daughters : some traces of goddess-beliefs in magalithic folklore? / Samuel Pyeatt Menefee -- Milk and the Northern Goddess / Hilda Ellis Davidson -- Coventina's well / Lindsay Allason-Jones -- Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses / Glenys Lloyd-Morgan -- Fors Fortuna in ancient Rome / Transmutations of an Irish goddess / Maire Herbert -- Aspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland / Patricia Lysaght -- The Causasian hunting-divinty, male and female : traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore / Anna Chaudhri -- The Mistress of the animals in Japan : Yamanokami / Carmen Blacker
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0415197899