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WOMEN WHO FLY Women Who Fly GODDESSES, WITCHES, MYSTICS, AND OTHER AIRBORNE FEMALES Serinity Young Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Young, Serinity, author. Title: Women who fly : goddesses, witches, mystics, and other airborne females / Serenity Young. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017011532 (print) | LCCN 2017052609 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190659691 (updf) | ISBN 9780190659707 (epub) | ISBN 9780190659714 (oso) | ISBN 9780195307887 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Goddesses. | Wiccans. | Women mystics. | Women. | Supernatural. Classification: LCC BL473.5 (ebook) | LCC BL473.5 .Y685 2018 (print) | DDC 200.82—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017011532 For Rawn Harding Flying is woman’s gesture—flying in language and making it fly. , “The Laugh of the Medusa” HÈLÉNE CIXOUS Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Female Flight Heroines, Freedom, and Captivity Transcendence and Immanence Shape-Shifting 1. Earth, Sky, Women, and Immortality Earth, Sky, and Birds Magical Flight, Ascension, and Assumption Dreams, Women, and Flying Humans, Divinities, and Birds Apotheosis Birds Bird Goddesses PART I SUPERNATURAL WOMEN 2. Winged Goddesses of Sexuality, Death, and Immortality Isis Women, Death, Sexuality, and Immortality The Ancient Near East Ancient Greece Athena and the Monstrous-Feminine Aphrodite Nike 3. The Fall of the Valkyries Brunhilde in the Volsungs Saga Images and Meanings Brunhilde in the Nibelungenlied Wagner’s Brunhilde 4. Swan Maidens: Captivity and Sexuality Urvaśī Images and Meanings Northern European Tales Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Asian Swan Maidens Feather Robes and Dance Two Middle Eastern Tales Hasan of Basra Janshah 5. Angels and Fairies: Male Flight and Contrary Females Angels and Demons Fairies Morgan le Fay Fairy Brides Asian Fairies 6. Apsarās: Enabling Male Immortality, Part 1 In Hinduism Relations with Heroes Seducing Ascetics Kings, Devadāsīs, and Fertility In Buddhism Seductresses The Saundarānanda 7. Yoginīs and Ḍākinīs: Enabling Male Immortality, Part 2 Tantra Yoginīs Yoginī Temples Practices and Stories Sexual Yoga Taming Ḍākinīs Subduing Tibetan Practitioners PART II HUMAN WOMEN 8. Witches and Succubi: Male Sexual Fantasies Medea Ancient Witches and Sexuality Circe The Witch of Endor Succubi and Incubi Witches in Christian Europe The Witches’ Sabbath Women and the Demonic Flying 9. Women Shamans: Fluctuations in Female Spiritual Power The Nišan Shaman Becoming a Shaman Magical Flight, Ritual Dress, and Spirit Animals Gender Transvestism and Sex Change Sexuality 10. Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman, Part I St. Christina the Astonishing Flight and Sanctity St. Irene of Chrysobalanton St. Elisabeth of Schönau Female and Male Mystics Hadewijch of Brabant 11. Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman, Part II Islam Rābi’ah al-‘Adawiyya Other Aerial Ṣūfī Women Daoism Sun Bu’er Daoist Beliefs and Practices Buddhism Human Ḍākinīs Machig Lapdron and Chod Practice 12. The Aviatrix: Nationalism, Women, and Heroism Wonder Woman Amelia Earhart Death and the Heroine Hanna Reitsch Women, Heroism, and Militarism Conclusion The Exceptional Woman Women and War NOTES WORKS CONSULTED INDEX
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