The Serpent and the Goddess
Author: Mary Condren
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary Condren
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gillian M. E. Alban
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780739104712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws parallels with goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar or Inanna, Isis, and Asherah. Mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and tellingly converted into the demon of patriarchal accounts, as seen in the examples of Lilith, Medusa, Scylla, and the serpent in the Garden. Alban deconstructs part of Genesis, including the roles of Adam and Eve and Cain's crime, and illuminates the Old Testament worship of the goddess Asherah alongside the male Yahweh. A forceful exploration of literature, history, and myth, this study sweeps away limiting assumptions about the female sex. Melusine the Serpent Goddess restores the dignity acknowledged to women of old, making a forceful statement about the power and creativity of women.
Author: Mary Condren
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Linda Foubister
Publisher: Eccenova Editions
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780973164824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A unique collection of myths and fairy tales illustrating the archetype of the Serpent Goddess from cultures throughout the world and throughout history. Goddess in the Grass examines the symbolic meaning of the Serpent Goddess, in terms of her association with fertility, prosperity, and renewal, and reveals her origins as the life-giving, death-dealing Great Goddess. Includes a dictionary of over 100 forms of the Serpent Goddess, from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. A wonderful supplement to any course in Mythology or Women's Studies, and a captivating read for anyone with an interest in the history of belief systems.
Author: Sarah Malena
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1575061279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Foreword-- In a very short stretch of years, the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego, has developed into one of the most important centers for teaching and research in biblical studies, in ancient Near Eastern and biblical archaeology, and more generally in Judaic studies. The program now rivals far older centers of study in these fields in eastern research universities. I have been an admirer of the program for some years, proud of former students of mine whose energy and foresight have contributed to the developments in La Jolla, including the establishment of endowed chairs that guarantee the future of this center and its program. This collection of essays honoring the Judaic Studies Program and its faculty is a testimony to the fecundity of the program in producing scholars, whose essays dominate the collection. Several essays come from other scholars whose home base is in the West and who have engaged in colloquia and common pursuits with the San Diego faculty. . . . There are sections on Genesis, poetry and prophecy, narrative and history, lexicon, archaeology, and (not least) paleography. --Frank Moore Cross Harvard University
Author: Philip Gardiner
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1780282419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the extraordinary story of the discovery of the ultimate secrets of some of the world's most enigmatic mysteries - including the Holy Grail, the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone.
Author: John Bathurst Deane
Publisher: Health Research Books
Published: 1996-09
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780787302795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traced throughout the world, & its traditions referred to events in paradise: Proving the temptation & fall of man by instrumentality of a serpent tempter.
Author: Marilyn L. Kraft
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2015-04-02
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 1503529924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My search for meaning uncovered a secret brain program in charge of moral development. A roadmap to enlightenment comes through the unique language of symbolism that has long been forsaken. This foreign tongue reveals the nature of divinity and truth of existence. It shows us who we really are, not who we think we are. A metaphoric component silently transforms a base consciousness to all-knowing awareness by converting power to love. Success in transforming an animal species to human status comes by attaching an integrated brain to a compassionate heart. Otherwise, life gets nasty as evidenced in bias, prejudice, bigotry, and profiling. Projections of how we feel about ourselves translate into how we treat others. Awakening to reality, after a long slumber in fantasy, is essential to raise our level of consciousness and our degree of self-awareness. A higher mental state is under construction. It needs our help to end the destruction and suffering our blindness causes. Blindness will be lifted by an involuntary change in vision.
Author: Walter Mattfeld
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-10-24
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0557705169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Several pre-biblical protagonists appearing in Mesopotamian myths are identified as being fused together and recast as the Garden of Eden's serpent.
Author: Prof.M.M. Ninan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-09-11
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 0359081525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book we are dealing essentially with the presence of the serpent in the Garden of Eden which God made on the earth and placed the newly created Adam and Eve with two strange trees with just one command to the new born babes not to eat from one of these trees. For some strange reason the serpent who was one of the residents got involved and starts of the process of the freedom of choice for the kids in their process of individuation and finding themselves. The children of God grew up under discipline to become part of God in all His creative activities.