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Mother of the Gods
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Philippe Borgeaud
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-12 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Worshiped throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, the "Mother of the Gods" was known by a variety of names. Among peoples of Asia Minor, where her cult firs
Mother God
Language: en
Pages: 34
Authors: Teresa Kim Pecinovsky
Categories: RELIGION
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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Mother God introduces readers to a dozen images of God inspired by feminine descriptions from Scripture.
The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia
Language: en
Pages: 478
Authors: Mark H. Munn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-11 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, Munn shows, and the go
In Search of God the Mother
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Lynn E. Roller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-07-13 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a relig
The Goddess
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: David Leeming
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a cr