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The Cult of the Mother Goddess
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: E. O. James
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-16 - Publisher:

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This book provides a complete historical overview of the Mother Goddess and her influence. All of the major female goddesses found throughout history are covere
In Search of God the Mother
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Lynn E. Roller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-07-13 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a relig
Mother of the Gods
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Philippe Borgeaud
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-12 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Worshiped throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, the "Mother of the Gods" was known by a variety of names. Among peoples of Asia Minor, where her cult firs
The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
Language: en
Pages: 665
Authors: Gananath Obeyesekere
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-01-01 - Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass

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Pattini-goddess, virgin, wife and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon-has been worshiped in Sri Lan
The Goddess
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: David Leeming
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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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 cr