The belief that the earliest humans worshipped a sovereign, nurturing, maternal earth goddess is a popular one. It has been taken up as fact by the media, who routinely depict modern goddess-worshippers as "reviving" the ancient religions of our ancestors. In The Faces of the Goddess , Lotte Motz sets out to test this hypothesis by examining the real female deities of early human cultures. In this challenging book, however, Motz shows that Goddess is a product of our own age, not of earlier ones. By discarding this ...
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The belief that the earliest humans worshipped a sovereign, nurturing, maternal earth goddess is a popular one. It has been taken up as fact by the media, who routinely depict modern goddess-worshippers as "reviving" the ancient religions of our ancestors. In The Faces of the Goddess , Lotte Motz sets out to test this hypothesis by examining the real female deities of early human cultures. In this challenging book, however, Motz shows that Goddess is a product of our own age, not of earlier ones. By discarding this simplistic and worn-out paradigm, we can open the door to a new way of thinking about feminine spirituality and religious experience.
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8vo, pp. 280. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Rear flyleaf slightly soiled, o/w a nice copy in lightly scuffed dj.
