Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity

280 Pages·2010·2.43 MB·English

by  Marguerite Rigoglioso

VIRGIN MOTHER GODDESSES OF ANTIQUITY
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Also by Marguerite Rigoglioso
The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece (Palgrave Macmillan 2009)
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VIRGIN MOTHER GODDESSES OF ANTIQUITY
Copyright © Marguerite Rigoglioso, 2010.
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“The Gnostic Sophia: Divine Generative Virgin,” by Angeleen Campra.
Copyright © 2010. Used by permission of Angeleen Campra.
Cover image: Irene Young and Laurelin Remington-Wolf
Author’s photo: Joe Burull
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CONTENTS
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Introduction 1 y -
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1 In the Beginning: Chaos, Nyx, and Ge/Gaia 15 niv
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3 Artemis: Virgin Mother of the Wild, Patron of Amazons 51 en
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5 Demeter and Persephone: Double Goddesses of ect.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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this book: my dissertation committee members, who read several of Co
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these chapters as part of my doctoral dissertation at the California Institute av
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of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University; CIIS Professor er
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Charlene Spretnak, for getting us started on the topic of the lost history Uni
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of goddesses of the ancient Mediterranean world and for her invaluable uk
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mentorship; Angeleen Campra, for her chapter on the Gnostic Sophia, o
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assistance; Suzanne Sherman Aboulfadl for her indexing skills; librarians nn
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Adolfo (AJ) Real, Jr., Kenneth Fish, and Shaun Barger (Dominican ec
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