Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine

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Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

INTRODUCTION . On the Great Goddess

CHAPTER 1. Myth and the Feminine Divine

• The Goddess in Paleolithic Cultures
• The Goddess as Nature

CHAPTER 2. Goddess-Mother Creator: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

• Stone to Copper: Anatolia and Old Europe
• Copper to Bronze: Crete

CHAPTER 3. Indo-European Influx

• Spears and Languages
• Burial Mounds and Suttee
• Mycenae

CHAPTER 4. Sumerian and Egyptian Goddesses

• The Abstract Field: Rise of Civilization
• The Semitic Influx: Sargon and Hammurabi
• Egypt
• Myth of Isis and Osiris

CHAPTER 5. Goddesses and Gods of the Greek Pantheon

• The Number of the Goddess
• Artemis
• Apollo
• Dionysus
• Zeus
• Ares
• Athena

CHAPTER 6. Iliad and Odyssey: Return to the Goddess

• The Judgment of Paris
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey

CHAPTER 7. Mysteries of Transformation

• The Once and Future Goddess
• Mystery Cults
• The Abduction of Persephone
• Dionysus and the Feminine Divine

CHAPTER 8. Amor: The Feminine in European Romance

• Virgin Mary
• The Court of Love
• The Renaissance of the Goddess
• Lift-Off

APPENDIX. Foreword to Marija Gimbutas’s The Language of the Goddess

GODDESS STUDIES: Essential Reading

EDITOR'S NOTE TO THE DIGITAL EDITION

ENDNOTES

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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