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Re: Researching Mother Goddesses

May 21, 1995 09:25 AM
by Dr. A.M.Bain


Nancy:

"The Great Mother, An Analysis of the Archetype"

- Erich Neumann.  Pub.  by Princeton University Press, Bollingen
Series XLVII 1963.  ISBN 0-691-01780-8 (pbk).  379pp + 185
plates.  This is dedicated to Jung, and written by one of his
major pupils.

Also worth reading from a pro-woman angle:

"Alone of all her Sex, - The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin
Mary."

- Marina Warner.  Pub.  Alfred A.  Knopf.  New York, 1976, ISBN
0-394-49913-1 (Knopf).  Exists in other editions.

Various articles in Hastings Encycolpedia of Religion and Ethics,
particularly Astarte, As(h)teroth.  Asheroth, Ishtar.  etc., as
well as the obvious goddesses such as Isis.

Alan.

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