Pagan Planet: Being, Believing & Belonging in the 21century
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What does it mean to live as a Pagan in this uncertain world of climate change, economic hardship...
The Gathering (Wilde Grove #1)
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The veil between the worlds is shredding. The old gods are calling. Erin inherits a cottage in a...
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The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War Against Christianity
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Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in...
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present
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This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and...
Beowulf: Facing Page Translation
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R.M. Liuzza's translation of Beowulf , first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised...
The Great God Pan
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The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in...
Brigid is the daughter of a slave and a chieftain, and she narrowly escapes marriage to a man she doesn’t want, when a goddess hears her prayers. She helps her from this point on, and this is where the blurring between goddess/ paganism and catholicism starts - in a good way.
Brigid builds her sisterhood, cloaks it in religion and makes a safe haven for women in what would have been a brutal time for them. One of my favourite themes, found family, is prominent in this, along with sisterhood and religious politics.
I’m off to find The Morrigan, and I’m hoping that Kim Curran will continue to introduce us to the Irish folklore that I know far too little about.
Merissa (13816 KP) rated Stalking the Goddess in Books
Dec 17, 2018
Stalking The Goddess is written like a thesis or dissertation from a university so will appeal to any academically-minded out there. This did make it quite hard going at times and I would read some and then take a break to digest what I had read.
Mark Carter has “untangled the woods” of The White Goddess and made it more accessible to the Pagan who would like to know more about it and where Robert Graves got his sources. Mark Carter has made it possible to see who has influenced Robert Graves, both in a positive and also a negative way, by showing whose work was used and which was not.
One of the things that I found most interesting was that although The White Goddess boasts a Welsh Celtic basis, Robert Graves had actually pulled on stories from the whole of Europe, as well as from the Bible, the Jews and used stories from the Saracens to compile his book and it somehow all seemed to fit which is where Mark Carter has excelled. Star Wars even makes an appearance!
In no way is Mark Carter dismissing The White Goddess and even states in the Epilogue that without The White Goddess it is unlikely that paganism would have developed as it did.
Overall, I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the history of The White Goddess, or for someone who has an academic “twist”. Thought provoking and a very interesting read.
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
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For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a...
Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage
Elizabeth Williamson and Jane Hwang Degenhardt
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Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious...