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Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions
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Include books by the same authorGoddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
Joseph Campbell · 304 pages
"Previously uncollected lectures and writings that trace the evolution of the Goddess, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance, and interpret classical motifs. Offers insight into self-actualization for women. Edited and introduced by the executive director of the Opus Archives and Research Center"--Provided by publisher.
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
Luisah Teish · 278 pages
Actress, storyteller, and priestess Luisah Teish dramatically re-creates centuries-old African-American traditions with music, memoir, and folk wisdom.
The Witch Of Portobello
Paulo Coelho
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
Starhawk · 304 pages
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
Margot Adler · 589 pages
Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colorful gallery of people across the United States, people who find inspiration in ancient deities, nature, myth, even science fiction. Contrar
The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor · 501 pages
Aradia
Charles Godfrey Leland · 133 pages
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
Diane Wolkstein, Samuel Noah Kramer · 256 pages
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant · 321 pages
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the f
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Maya Deren · 350 pages
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Wade Davis · 304 pages
A Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret societies of Haitian voodoo, zombis, and magic.
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
Sue Monk Kidd · 245 pages
"Sue Monk was a 'conventionally religious, churchgoing woman, a traditional wife and mother' with a thriving career as a Christian writer until she began to question her role as a woman in her culture, her family, and her church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kidd takes readers through the fear, anger, healing,
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Zora Neale Hurston · 301 pages
As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of cer
The Book of the Law
Aleister Crowley, Rose Edith Crowley · 160 pages
Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of The Morrigan
Trista Hendren · 251 pages
The Language of the Goddess
Marija Gimbutas · 388 pages
History of religious symbols about the dominance of the Great Goddess based on archeological finds and art.
Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Myth & Reality of the Triple Goddess
D.J. Conway · 229 pages
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
Jean Shinoda Bolen · 320 pages
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's magnificent spiritual autobiography is the story of a call to adventure, the mystery of the feminine, and the extraordinary pilgrimage that marked her midlife passage. Bolen frames her search for meaning at midlife as a quest for the mysterious lost Grail of the Arthurian legend. For Bolen, the Grail represents the elusive object of a lifelong search for what is missing fr
The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries
Zsuzsanna E. Budapest · 352 pages
Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints
Denise Alvarado · 242 pages
A magical mystery tour of the extraordinary historical characters that have defined the unique spiritual landscape of New Orleans. New Orleans has long been America’s most magical city, inhabited by a fascinating visible and invisible world, full of mysteries, known for its decadence and haunted by its spirits. If Salem, Massachusetts, is famous for its persecution of witches, New Orleans is celeb
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Riane Eisler · 261 pages
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--Library journal (6/1/85).
The White Goddess
Robert Graves · 511 pages
The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European m