Hearkening back to the widespread worship of a mother goddess at the dawn of civilization, Walker argues for a restoration of this primal religious sensibility which celebrated the Earth's fertility and woman's innate power to bear new life.

Through an analysis of biblical appropriation of Goddess-based religions and women interviewees' comments, the author of Feminist Fairy Tales and The Women's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects reveals women's growing discovery of "thealogy" alternatives to patriarchal theology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Connect with the Power of Goddesses from Around the World This inspiring book introduces you to Eingana, Lilith, Pandora, Sedna, Hekate, Oya, and nearly a dozen other incredible goddesses whose stories will empower you in a myriad of ways. Each deity's tale contains a unique energy, encouraging you to navigate the path of self-discovery, develop your personal power, and find emotional wellbeing. Kate Osborne shares affirmations, meditations, ceremonies, mirror and labyrinth work, and more—all of it designed to help you engage with the goddesses' mythology. Free yourself from emotional bondage with the story of Hine-nui-te-p?, seek redemption with Skadi's tale, and nurture your creations with Gaia. You'll also use rituals, mantras, and exercises to heal and express yourself. Whenever life throws a curveball, these goddesses' stories will uplift and strengthen you.

Discover the inner Goddess energies that lie within you through nine Goddess archetypes—an empowering guide on finding healing, strength, and transformation, for readers of Warrior Goddess Training The Goddess is guiding your life . . . You know 'the Goddess' as a divine feminine figure of myth, art and faith—but are you aware that, in truth, the Goddess is a life force that lives in you? Did you know that your multi-faceted experiences of life as a woman are influenced by Goddess consciousness? Do you sense that you have a hidden feminine energy that longs to be seen, accepted, valued—and used for a healing purpose? In this highly engaging and stirring book, leading intuitive Sophie Bashford takes you on a journey to meet nine Goddess archetypes, which will help you to: • Understand the many ups and downs, emotions and cycles of your life through the ‘eyes of the Goddess’ • Discover how the Goddesses can ignite your spiritual growth and uncover your feminine healing gifts • Learn how to work with each Goddess for self-healing, positive inner change and empowerment • Get in touch with a divine feminine support and healing system comprising nine archetypes, including Kali, Mary Magdalene, Aphrodite and Isis Sharing intuitively channeled messages, beautiful guided meditations and moving personal experiences, Sophie leads you into safe territories where your darkest inner fears can be healed, your deepest dreams awakened and your entire life transformed.

For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.

Extraordinary independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology Walker examines a time when the Goddess and her consort/son ruled supreme and forward into the era when the patriarchy usurped Her worship.

A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.

Shards of a Broken Mystery: The Restoration of Hekate records the real-time unfolding of the relationship between the author and a Titan Greek goddess, Hekate: denigrated, discarded, and all but forgotten during the rise of the patriarchy in millennia past.The work could be called a psychoactive memoir as page after page seeds and grows a sense of inner process.This book supports the evolving nature of full, true psychological development, including a fresh perspective on the often discussed shadow aspect of the human condition.