Goddess: Mother of Living Nature

By Adele Getty

Book Overview

Describes the role and history of the goddess, the personification of Mother Earth, among the various peoples of the world, and shows some of the ways artists of different cultures have depicted her. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500810338
• ISBN13: 9780500810330
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Goddess:Mother of Living Nature

An exceptional book, full of ancient examples of our goddess nature.This book is well written, staying true to historical fact, I found it totally absorbing, going back to our most ancient cultures, their wisdom and insightful interpretations of our earth mother, gave me a gift I had been waiting all my life to receive! For those who wish to again be embraced by their feminine nature, this is a book that I highly recommend. A must read.

The Sacred as Feminine

As Adele Getty shows in this magnificent volume, the Goddess has played a far greater role in human spirituality than one might suppose at first glance. In her opening essay, Getty discusses the ancient Goddess religions and their spirituality of rebirth and regeneration. She goes on to discuss the "Patriarchal Inversion", but then demonstrates the ongoing presence of the Goddess in ostensibly patriarchal religions - for example, in what she calls "Unbidden Mariology" in the Christian tradition. The essay closes with considerations of what Goddess Religions might contribute to concerns in the modern world. The second part of the book, "Plates", and the third part of the book, "Themes", present a bewildering array of Goddess images from all over the world. One can learn a great deal about the Goddess simply from flipping through these pictures. Overall, this is a very well done synopsis of the Goddess across cultures and across time.