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Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine


Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
by Joseph Campbell


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


[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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