The Body of the Goddess: Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape, and Culture

by Rachel Pollack

The religion of the Goddess is emerging from the shadows of the past. This work explores the ancient world of the matriarchy and the re-emergence of Goddess worship in modern women's lives. Drawing on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852308710
• ISBN13: 9781852308711
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Element Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A magical book

Rachel Pollack ahs written a book about the Goddess and our earth. This book is not just for females alone. It can appeal to both genders, sexual orientations and races. My anthropology professor recommended this book to me. It is a pionerring book that all should read. If we value our earth and women we must change our thinking and actions.

The Goddess Is Alive and Magic Is Afoot

Rachel Pollack is the world's foremost expert of the tarot. Her book THE BODY OF THE GODDESS is my personal favorite of all of her many works. This book documents her travels in Malta and other places to visit sacred Goddess sites. It is a personal book that makes you feel that Rachel is actually telling you these adventures in person. Rachel Pollack believes that Goddess spirituality is what all beings on this planet need. I completely agree with her ideas. Patriarchal medicine, religon and politics are destroying our earth. The Bush administration seems to be determined to wage war against vulnerable people who get in his way. Goddess spirituality and tarot can make us change our thinking to a way of thinking in tune with the earth and it's inhabitants including nonhuman animal life and nonhuman plant life. Thank you Ms. Pollack for your incredable, healing writing. I hope Ms. Pollack and Anne Ogborn do a book together sometime. That would be so COOL!

The Body Of The Goddess

I am very enthusiastic about The Body Of The Goddess". Ms. Pollack travelled to sites all over the world devoted to the worship of the Great Goddess and all of her many manifestations. This book combines feminist spirituality with feminist politics and feminist archeology and anthropology to show us what the world was like when egalitarian beliefs were dominant. All feminists and people interested in the fate of our planet should read this classic book.

An absolute must-have for any Goddess worhipper

Wow. What a book. It's totally changed my view of human history (and, more to the point, herstory) and brought fresh insights about the Goddess. The dawn of civilization and religion, the matrifocal civilization of Catal Huyuk and Crete, the Gallae, and the Eleusinian Mysteries are all covered, with a spin on such things as landscape, the labrys, and the Venus of Willendorf that I've never seen elsewhere.Oddly enough, she manages to miss the central mystery of the Attis myth -- that He was reborn as a woman -- but all in all, this is an absolute tour de force.

Unique insights on Goddess religion

Rachel Pollack's unique insights are an important addition to the literature on Goddess religion. She brings alive the visual impact of the body of the Goddess in landscape--including the surroundings of sacred sites in Europe--in a way I've not experienced in other books. She sheds new light on parts of Greek mythology I previously felt were hopelessly fragmented by patriarchy. In particular, her moving discussion of the Persephone myth transforms many of the most disturbing aspects of the patriarchal version of this myth into a metaphor of the continuing power of the Goddess and of women. Add to this, Pollack's fearless look at sexuality, gender fluidity and gender-changing in ancient Goddess religions and you have a wonder-filled tour de Source.