The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image

Baring, Anne; Cashford, Jules

ISBN 10: 0670835641 / ISBN 13: 9780670835645

Published by Viking Arkana, 1991

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1st printing with number line down to 1. Crisp and unmarked, F/NF. xv, 779pp., index, notes and references, bibliography, illustrations. Foreword by Sir Laurens Van Der Post. Very nice unclipped jacket offered now in a new mylar cover. -- In this definitive and powerfully argued study, scholarly yet accessible, Jules Cashford and Anne Baring draw upon art and mythology, poetry and literature, archaeology and psychology, to show how the myth of the Goddess has been lost from our formal Judaeo~Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the Goddess, when and how she was excluded, and the implications to us of this loss. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
• Publisher: Viking Arkana
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670835641
• ISBN 13: 9780670835645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Folklore & Mythology

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Synopsis

An exploration into the myth of the Goddess chronicles her history from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia Hypothesis, restoring the image of the Goddess to its place in human beings' psychic pantheon.

Reviews

The authors of this ground-breaking, rich, ambitious work attempt to trace the evolution of consciousness by following humanity's changing attitudes toward female deities, from the Paleolithic mother goddess enshrined in figurines to Inanna of Sumer, Isis of Egypt, Aphrodite of Greece, and beyond. Baring, a London-based Jungian analyst, and Cashford, who writes on mythology, regard the formal disappearance of goddess myths as a pivotal event signaling the devaluation of the feminine and the opposition of feeling to thinking. They interpret the Virgin Mary as the unrecognized mother goddess of Christianity, identify hidden images of the goddess in the Old Testament and demonstrate that a Hebrew goddess existed in various forms such as the Shekhinah, founder of the world in Kabbalism. A wonderfully readable synthesis, this monumental study is packed wth scores of riveting illustrations. It will serve as a sourcebook for students of myth, feminists and those seeking to balance and integrate masculine and feminine components of their psyche.
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