The Storyteller's Goddess: Tales of the Goddess and Her Wisdom from Around the World

by Carolyn McVickar Edwards

Book Overview

The Storyteller's Goddess is a collection of more than 30 stories from 20 cultures that celebrate the goddess. They are organized around seven healing goddess principles and are inspired by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062502638
• ISBN13: 9780062502636
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

I've gotten about a third through the book and decided it's not for me. I was expecting a feel for each goddess, but I feel more like I got a very condensed version of one woman's perspective. For a wider range of voices, check out The Feminist Companion to Mythology edited by Carolyne Larrington.

Have only read a few of the stories so far, but looks good

Nice to read stories of the Goddesses. Have only read a few of the stories so far, but looks good so far. BB

Fun, enchanting, and magical!

This book is utterly fabulous! A wonderful selection of Goddess Myth stories from around the world that cross cultural and linguistic barriers. A wonderful gift to give yourself, a child, or any adult. Highly recommended.

Tales of the Goddess

_The Storyteller's Goddess_ makes a wonderful addition to any Goddess-lover's library. Carolyn Edwards adapts many Goddess myths from around the world, shaping them into brief stories that read more like fairy tales than religion. It works wonderfully; Edwards' stories touch a reader's heart more deeply than a hundred dogmatic, left-brained Goddess books could ever do.

The Goddess comes alive in this wonderful collection

The many aspects and legends of the Goddess are beautifully, and imaginatively retold by Carolyn McVickar Edwards. She provides readers with 39 Goddess stories from 27 different cultures. She arranges these stories into seven categories, such as, All in All: Healing the split (the Goddess as both light and dark -- which includes Goddesses such as, Pele, Ereshkigal, and Hecate), or, Spirit Incarnate: Goddess as Earth and Body (including Goddesses such as, Freya, Kuan Yin, and Sedna). The author has added six new stories in this second edition as well as reworked many of her original ones. Edwards took some of the stories straight from Merlin Stone's book, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood. Others, she puts a more modern spin on. Some she created from bits and pieces of information, concepts and images. The book is feminocentric, but not exclusionary towards men. It's lessons (such as religious tolerance, equality, ecology) are imparted in a sensitive, not preachy manner. The stories are beautiful to read both aloud or quietly. Many, but not all, are appropriate to read to children. All can be use in group discussions, or for ritual celebrations. If you are involved in Goddess spirituality, are a storyteller seeking good material, or are just interested in exploring Goddess lore, you'll find this book to be pure enchantment.