TY - BOOK AU - Managhan, Patricia ed. TI - Goddesses in world culture SN - 9780313354656 U1 - 202.11409 PY - 2011/// CY - England PB - Praeger KW - Goddesses. KW - Déesses N1 - V. 1. Asia and Africa. Lakshmi : Hindu goddess of abundance / Constantina Rhodes -- Kali : goddess of life, death, and transcendence / June McDaniel -- Goddess Ganga : her power, mythos, and worldly challenges / Kelly D. Alley -- Village goddesses : vernacular religion in Orissa / Elinor Gadon and Rita Ray -- Mariamma : cosmic creation goddess / Judy Grahn -- Durga : invincible goddess of South Asia / Laura Amazzone -- Kumari : Nepal's eternally living goddess / Jeffrey S. Lidke -- Dakini : the goddess who takes form as a woman / Vicki Noble -- Tara : savior, Buddha, Holy Mother / Miranda Shaw -- Guanyin : goddess of embodied compassion / Betz King -- Xi Wangmu : the great goddess of China / Max Dashu -- Yama no Kami : mountain mother of Japan / Denis Saint Arnault -- Re-membering the cosmogonic goddess of Cheju : Solmundae Halmang / Hea-Kyoung Koh -- Maiden with a thousand slippers : animal helpers and the hero(ine)'s jouney / Dore Ripley -- Sekhmet, Bast, and Hathor : power, passion, and transformation through the Egyptian goddess trinity / Normandi Ellis -- Nut : Egyptian night-sky goddess / Malgorzata (Margaret) Kruszewska -- Queen of Sheba : transformation of an ancient cosmology of interconnectedness / Miri Hunter Haruach -- Goddess Auset : an ancient Egyptian spiritual framework / C. S'thembile West -- Ogbuide : the Igbo Lake goddess / Sabine Jell-Bahlsen -- Osun : Yoruba goddess in Nigeriea and the African diaspora / Diedre L. Badejo -- Iyami Osoronga : primordial mothers of Yoruba spirituality / Aina Olomo -- V. 2. Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. Nisaba of Eresh : goddess of grain, goddess of writing / Betty DeShong Meador -- Queen of heaven and earth : Inanna-Ishtar of Mesopotamia / Johanna Stuckey -- Asherah : hidden goddess of the Bible / Daniel Cohen -- Lilith : the primordial feminine / M. Kelley Hunter -- Mary Magdalene : tradition, myth, and the search for meaning / Susan Little -- Fat lady of Malta : interpreting her obesity, nudity, and sexuality / Cristina Biaggi -- Goddess Tanit and her revenants in Sicily : Demeter, Persephone, Anne, and Mary / Dolores DeLuise -- Anatolian mother : Kybele / Zubre Indirkas -- Heroine of Troy : the many faces of Helen / Judith Roche -- Gaia : dynamic, diverse, source and place of being / Glenys Livingstone -- Deer mother : Earth's nurturing epicenter of life and death / Kathryn Henderson -- Silkies : an interspecies love story in legend, song, and story / Brenda Peterson -- Swan maiden : the animal that Adam could not name / Boria Sax -- Walk with Berehinia : goddess of Ukraine and Russia / Mary B. Kelly -- Sheela na Gig : dark goddess of Europe / Star Goode -- Goddess-turned-heroine of the Celts : Queen Medb and the sovereignty of Ireland / Miriam Robbins Dexter -- Sulis (Minerva) and other "Celtic" goddesses : the native tradition in Pre-Roman Britain / Cheryl Straffon -- Rhineland deae matronae : collective female deity in Germanic Europe / Dawn E. Work-MaKinne -- Norns : representatives of fate in Old Norse tradition / Karen Bek-Pedersen -- Danu, Raetia, Marisa ; mountain goddess of the Alps / Claire French -- V. 3. Australia and the Americas. Jillinya : great mother of the Kimberley / Nunya Andrews -- Rock goddesses : Australia's first creator beings / Margaret Grove -- Native American Earth mother : from the Inuit to the Inca / Jordan Paper -- Mother and origin : female divinity in South America / Max Dashu -- Earth and the Nahuas : the goddess of Ancient Mexico / Sylvia Marcos -- Goddess androgyne : Coatlicue of the Aztecs / Lanier Graham -- Xochiquetzal : goddess of flowers and love / Patrizia Granziera -- Our Lady of Guadalupe : mother of a new race / Barbara Flaherty -- Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre : Cuba's virgin of charity / Karen DIllon -- Gran Brijit : Haitian vodou guardian of the cemetery / Kerry Noonan -- Corn mother in North America : life-bringer and culture-bearer / Dave Aftandilian -- Nookomis and Mindemoya : Grandmother Moon and the Old Woman of the mists / Ann Megiskwe Filemyr -- White Buffalo Calf Woman (Pte-san win-yan) : the first and second coming / Ariahn Matamonasa-Bennett -- Wolves and the divine feminine : European and Native American wolf mythologies / Cristina Eisenberg -- Sedna : underwater goddess of the Arctic Sea / Jacqueline Thursby -- Spider Woman : creator and destroyer / Marion W. Copland -- One and the many : the return of the goddess in contemporary American novels / Kathleen L. Nichols -- Audre Lorde's Seboulisa : muse for the death journey / Sharon L. Barnes -- Sekhmet in America : the heart of the sun / Anne Key -- Artemis as protectress of female mysteries : modern worship in teh Dianic tradition in America / Denise Saint Arnault -- American goddess : a modern apotheosis / Michael B. MacDonald -- Deae ex Machina : goddesses from a machine / Kyle Glasgow ER -