TY  - BOOK
AU  - Motz,Lotte
TI  - The faces of the goddess
SN  - 1429415460
AV  - BL325.M6 M68 1997eb
U1  - 291.2/114 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mother goddesses
KW  - Femininity of God
KW  - Déesses mères
KW  - Dieu
KW  - Féminité
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Godinnen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-270) and index; The great mother-- The rise of a goddess in our time -- Reverence of nature : Northern Eurasia -- The creativity of suffering : the Eskimo -- The lady of the manor : Lativa -- The human condition : Mesopotamia -- The mountain mother : Anatolia -- Demeter, the ravished earth : Greece -- The exaltation of death : Mexico -- Amaterasu and her sacred land : Japan
N2  - Many contemporary feminists believe that early humans worshipped a nurturing Mother Goddess, who was subsequently displaced by autocratic male deities. This book examines the maternal deities of various cultures and religions and finds no signs of a common origin, and thus no evidence for a primordial "Great Mother." Its conclusions stand in stark contradiction to the prevailing view
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