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Essential Books for Women
Lynne:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 10, 2008, 01:50:26 pm ---When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone
The scholarship is somewhat wonky, but the author gets her point across. The Divine wasn't always seen as a man, and indeed there is strong evidence that the Ultimate Divine was once considered female.
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When I first saw the title of this thread, this is the book I thought about!
I found the first part of this book fascinating, as a female raised in the the Southeast US...no exposure to any ideas except a patriarchal God. It caught my eye when I was in my early twenties and at the time I felt like it lifted the lid off the box I'd been living in. Exposure to religions that pre-dated the Judeo-Christian tradition was really intriguing.
The second part seemed to include more arcane archaeology than I could appreciate - I got a bit lost in the history and geography and didn't enjoy that as much.
http://www.amazon.com/When-God-Woman-Merlin-Stone/dp/015696158X
Front-Ranger:
Tell us more about your experience reading it, Lynne!
Here is a quote from The Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain, Chapter 19, Yin/Yang (!)
--- Quote ---Due to the reductionism inherent in their written form, alphabet cultures have lacked unity. Fractured lands, fractious governments, and schismatic religions have mirrored their written languages, which have splintered into hundreds of different vernaculars and written forms. War and strife associated with intransigent political and religious ideologies have been their lot. Rarely would a single government be able to rule them all.
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Front-Ranger:
'Nother important book, though dated, is Moon, Moon by Anne Kent Rush. A compendium of all things about the moon, feminism, rituals, and the goddess. Published in 1976. I bought a copy for myself, and one for my sister. We both still have our copies!
Front-Ranger:
Moving right along, I also recommend The Once and Future Goddess: A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female by Elinor Gadon.
This is a fairly comprehensive look at prepatriarchial spirituality.
http://www.amazon.com/Once-Future-Goddess-Chronicle-Reemergence/dp/0062503545/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Lynne on December 10, 2008, 08:28:36 pm ---When I first saw the title of this thread, this is the book I thought about!
http://www.amazon.com/When-God-Woman-Merlin-Stone/dp/015696158X
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Here's that lovely snakegoddess!!
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