Goddesses in World Mythology

by Martha Ann

"In the beginning people did not work, because the sky was so close to the Earth, they could just reach up and cut off a piece of it to eat. One day, Greedy Woman cut of an enormous chunk of the sky and, even with the help of the whole village, there was no way to finish it so she had to throw the remainder away. The sky was angry about this and rose high above the Earth so the people could no longer take pieces for food. Now people must work for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019509199X
• ISBN13: 9780195091991
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.5" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Complete!

The mother of all Goddess books! This book is absolutely amazing. It includes Goddesses from all over the world. Fabulous book for learning about the many aspects and elements of Goddesses in all her glorious forms.

Great definitive work!

This book is extremely well researched. It is the most definitive collection of world goddesses available. The book is broken up into pantheons and attributes with an alphabetical index at the back. Though the descriptions aren't as in-depth as they could be the authors have done a great job of timelining the development and adaption that has taken place with each goddess over the centuries. I am astounded at their success in conquering such a magnitude of information. I reference this work constantly and am so glad to own it. A must for any goddess worshipper or academic scholar of mythology and religions!