The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power

by Vicki Noble

Book Overview

The first book to seriously study the double goddess that figures prominently in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures. - Offers an important symbol for modern women seeking to reconnect with their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591430119
• ISBN13: 9781591430117
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Bear & Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Vicki Noble offers groundbreaking book

Vicki Noble has given us an indepth and detailed look into the rich archeological discoveries of female representations that help us to understand and explore woman's roles and knowledge at a time when woman were publicly prominent as healers and leaders. These historic double goddess figures have never before been documented like this!! This is original research done by the author herself in collaboration with other prominent scholar's work. This manuscript, complete with drawings of the figures, offers a wide historical glimpse of too often ignored and deliberately hidden cultural practices that affirm women. While reading this book I felt stimulated and inspired to reaffirm my committment to myself not to shrink in deference to the status quo but to let myself be a woman who helps to shape our society into a more livable nurturing one. The book offers positive historic female role models and affirms embodied numinous and female shamanic healing states that the unearthing of these powerful double goddess and other goddess figures have reaffirmed. Vicki Noble's work is profoundly needed in a time of backlash against all of the important progress that has been made toward equality in the US.