Theos-Talk Archives (April 1995 Message tl00194)

Hi, Alan,

Here are some titles for women's antique history:

"When God Was a Woman", Merlin Stone, Harcourt Brace, 1976
(originally published in Great Britain unter the title "The
Paradise Papers" by Virago Ltd.  in association with Quartet
Books Ltd.).  I think that's the best known one.

"Priestesses", Norma Lorre Goodrich.  Softcover 1990, Harper
Collins, hardcover 1989.  That looks like the most detailed one
to me of the books I have.  It has the account of the Celtic
(Gallic) priestesses & the Romans at the end.

"Goddess, Mother of Living Nature", Adele Getty, 1990 Thames &
Hudson, London, NY.  This is my favorite, because it's very well
illustrated, also because she takes a more anthropological view.

I didn't quite understand your question re the Holiest of Holies.

I think "They" are right.  God is Love.  Only killing & maiming
is Love turned inside out.

I have no idea as to what the Jews were called in Biblical times.
I had a couple of years of religion classes in Germany, where the
religious instructions were given right in school.  I seem to
remember that each tribe was called by its name, & that the name
"Jew" came from the tribe of Judah, but it's vague, like round
about 3rd grade.

Namaste

Liesel