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Whitehead, Amy. "Indigenizing the Goddess." International Journal for the Study of New Religions 9, no. 2 (2019): 215–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.37621.

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The Glastonbury Goddess religion in the South West of England began in the 1990s by a small group of women dedicated to reviving the Goddess of the land surrounding Glastonbury, interpreting and revitalizing myths and legends in relation to her, and reclaiming the Goddess as their own after centuries of male Christian dominated religion. Hugely successful, the group have constructed what they claim to be the first Goddess Temple dedicated to the indigenous goddess of Glastonbury in over 1500 years. The article will argue that territorialization, or “re-territorialization,” is one of the main s

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Burdo, Nataliia. "Goddesses and the Moon: Images and Symbols of Сuсuteni–Trypillia". Archaeologia Lituana 23 (30 грудня 2022): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/archlit.2022.23.3.

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Maria Gimbutas devoted three fundamental monographs to the study of the religion of prehistoric Europe and the Goddess who, in her opinion, reigned in the sacred space of the population of Neolithic Europe. She believed that modern European civilization has its origins in the early agricultural societies of the Neolithic period from the 7th to the 3rd millennia BC, which corresponds to the term “Old Europe”. According to the researcher, the Great Triune Goddess, associated with the cycle of “birth, nurturing, growth, death, and regeneration”, played a dominant and all-encompassing role in the

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M.S, Ezhilarasi. "Women in Devotion and Religions (From the Natural Moral Period to the Religious Period)." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-14 (2022): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s145.

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The woman was the foremost in the early maternal society. Goddesses were also seen as primary in worship. The elements of natural energy were praised as feminine. They saw them as forces of prosperity. The goddesses found in the worship of nature later entered the religion. The goddess Kali (Kottravai) later became a part of Shiva. Women have been monks in Buddhism and Jainism since the early days of the religion. The female monks performed excellent religious duties. In Saivism and vaishnavism the religion that originated in this Tamil soil, woman was seen as a Part of the God. Historical ref

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Yadav, Megha. "Disease, Demon, and the Deity: Case of Corona Mātā and Coronāsur in India." Religions 13, no. 11 (2022): 1011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13111011.

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As India faced multiple waves of the pandemic, religious responses arose to accommodate and make sense of the situation. In the face of uncertainty, disease and death, people turn not just towards the medical sciences but also religion. The emergence of a new Hindu goddess, Corona Mātā/Coronavirus Mardhinī encapsulates people’s fear, faith, and devotion. Although the goddess is new, the tradition of disease goddesses is ancient. The Indian Subcontinent has a long history of mother goddesses who have been protecting their devotees from diseases such as smallpox, fever, plague, etc. This paper a

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Morris, Brian. "Matriliny and mother goddess religion." Journal of Contemporary Religion 13, no. 1 (1998): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537909808580824.

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Lee, Dorothy A. "Goddess Religion and Women's Spirituality." Theology 102, no. 805 (1999): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x9910200104.

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Ruether, Rosemary Radford. "The Normalization of Goddess Religion." Feminist Theology 13, no. 2 (2005): 151–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735005051941.

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Fernández Guerrero, Olaya. "Hera, The Perfect Wife? Features and Paradoxes of the Greek Goddess of Marriage." Journal of Family History 47, no. 2 (2021): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03631990211031280.

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In the ancient Greek polytheistic religion, Hera was considered the wife of Zeus and she was worshipped as the goddess of marriage. This paper analyses pre-Olympian references to Hera as an unmarried Great Goddess related to nature and fertility, and it explores from a critical perspective the origins and contents of her cult as Hera Teleia, the “perfect wife.” Mythological tales about her fights with Zeus, their conflictive relationship and his continuous love affairs with goddesses and women show us that the divine Greek model for human marriage was far from being a state of marital bliss.

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S., Carolin. "Greek God and Goddess in Literature." Shanlax International Journal of English 8, S1 (2019): 37–38. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3599864.

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To comprehend the capacities that religion or folklore serve in some random culture they should be taken a gander at both independently  and together for they are personally bound. A huge bit of folklore  clarifies religion, the same amount of religion is folklore tried. This is particularly valid in a culture as wealthy in these conventions as the Greeks were. The Greeks are prime subjects of concentrate for those wishing to comprehend the jobs that religion and folklore play in a general public and how the two associate with one another in light of the fact that, to the Greeks, fol

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Ezz Ali, Mona. "GODDESS nsrt IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION." مجلة کلية السياحة والفنادق. جامعة المنصورة 16, no. 16 (2024): 143–74. https://doi.org/10.21608/mkaf.2024.404553.

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I., Karthick. "சாக்த மார்க்கம் போற்றும் பெண்மையின் சிறப்பு / The Virtues of Femininity Eulogized in Shakta Religion". Pandian Journal of Women's Studies 5, SPL 1 (1) (2025): 94–99. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14744609.

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<em>Puranas say that there are six religions in the Hindu religion. They follow six sects namely Sauram, Ganapatyam, Saivam, Vaishnavam, Saktam and Kaumaram.  Among these, Saktam leads Ambigai worship. Shakthars are the people who worship the mother who is the feminine form of Lord Shiva. These sects worship deities like Parvati, Meenakshi, Kamakshi, Abhirami, Kali etc. as various forms of Goddess Shakti. The trust of this sect is that femininity is the source of everything. Abirami Pattar is one of the very notable devotees of Goddess Abirami. His real name was Subramania Iyer and was bo

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Raphael, Melissa. "Goddess Religion, Postmodern Jewish Feminism, and the Complexity of Alternative Religious Identities." Nova Religio 1, no. 2 (1998): 198–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.1998.1.2.198.

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ABSTRACT: This paper argues that Jewish Goddess feminism illustrates the complexity of alternative religious identities and their fluid, ambiguous, and sometimes intimate historical, cultural, and religious connections to mainstream religious identities.1 While Jewish Goddess feminists find contemporary Judaism theologically and politically problematic, thealogy (feminist discourse on the Goddess and the divinity of femaleness) can offer them precisely the sacralization of female generativity that mainstream Judaism cannot. And yet the distinctions between present/former, alternative/mainstrea

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Zolotnikova, Olga Albert. "Becoming Classical Artemis: A Glimpse at the Evolution of the Goddess as Traced in Ancient Arcadia." Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 5 (2017): 08. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i4.1157.

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<p>This paper is concerned with the evolution of the goddess Artemis in Ancient Greek religion from prehistoric till late historic times. In the related studies, still there is no certainty as to the beginning of worship of Artemis in Ancient Greece and her original concept. Moreover, Artemis’ appearance in the early historic period with the features of the prehistoric Mountain-Mother-Goddess, the Mistress of Animals, the goddess of lakes, the goddess of trees, the goddess of birth and child-care, on the one hand, and as a virgin-huntress who presented rudimentary traits of bear-goddess

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Liza, U. S. "Pagan Ecofeminism: A Study of Alice Munro’s “Princess Ida”." Literary Voice 1, no. 1 (2023): 66–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.59136/lv.2023.1.1.108.

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This paper attempts to explore Alice Munro’s short story, “Princess Ida” from an ecofeminist lens. “Princess Ida” is one of Munro’s stories from 1971 short story collection, Lives of Girls and Women. The paper uncovers the elements of paganism, one of the strands of ecofeminism, present in the story. It offers pagan ecofeminist study of the text by opposing monotheistic religion and embracing any religion that worships the earth, nature, or fertility deity, such as the various forms of goddess worship or matriarchal religion. It establishes a connection between earth-worship and the Gaia hypot

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Gamidova, A. "The Problem of the Assimilation of the Oppositions in "The White Goddess", the Concept of Robert Graves." Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка. Філологічні науки, no. 2(88) (September 5, 2018): 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.35433/philology.2(88).2018.50-54.

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Robert Graves, who in his literary and artistic work combined historical legitimacy, mythology and poetic intuition, sought to create a religious concept which is capable of responding to the moral and spiritual expectations of the modern man, and this expectation found its ideal embodiment in his conceptual idea of the Great Goddess. Like other sensitive followers of the Great Goddess, Robert Graves once saw the awakening of the universal spirit. Many poets, such as Robert Graves, William Butler Yates, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, presented themselves as apostles of the Great God, although t

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Semybratska, Anastasiia. "The Origin and Formation of the Image of the Goddess Athena within the Olympian Pantheon." Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History, no. 60 (December 10, 2021): 86–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2220-7929-2021-60-05.

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The article considers the formation of the image of the goddess Athena as a member of the Olympian pantheon of gods. It should be noted that many aspects of ancient Greek religion and mythology still remain controversial. In particular, while the historiographical tradition has dwelled in relative detail on the cult of the goddess Athena and the Panathenaea, the essential origins of her image and theonym remain less studied and open to question. However, the investigation of this issue can help trace the transformation of the image of the goddess and determine her role and place among the Olym

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Aaro, Ane Faugstad. "Ricœur’s Historical Intentionality and the Great Goddess Freyja." Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 56, no. 1 (2020): 75–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33356/temenos.80350.

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   The main question in this article concerns whether hermeneutic phenomenology as a methodology can address some of the problems and critiques raised in the study of religions. Inspired by Gilhus’s proposal in her article ‘The Phenomenology of Religion and Theories of Interpretation’, I investigate the possibilities in this strand of thought concerning interpretation and explanation from the perspective of Ricœur’s hermeneutic phenomenology and language theory, taking Norse mythology and the goddess Freyja as examples of how this method might work. I argue that Ricœur’s cont

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CHATTERJEE, KUMKUM. "Goddess encounters: Mughals, Monsters and the Goddess in Bengal." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 5 (2013): 1435–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x13000073.

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AbstractThis paper makes a case for exploring the cultural facets of Mughal rule as well as for a stronger engagement with sources in vernacular languages for the writing of Mughal history. Bengal's regional tradition of goddess worship is used to explore the cultural dimensions of Mughal rule in that region as well as the idioms in which Bengali regional perceptions of Mughal rule were articulated. Mangalkavya narratives—a quintessentially Bengali literary genre—are studied to highlight shifting perceptions of the Mughals from the late sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. During the p

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Nguyen Thi, Que. "Great war in Song Son – a new developing step in the legend of holy Mother Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese beliefs in Mother Goddesses of Three Realms, Four Realms." Journal of Science Social Science 68, no. 1 (2023): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2023-0006.

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The legend of the great war in the Song Son region between Princess Lieu Hanh and the three Saints of Noi Dao Trang is an open ending because it starts a new beginning: the beginning of the role of Lieu Hanh's character after becoming a Saint; beginning of Vietnamese beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms in our country when Princess Lieu Hanh took refuge in the Buddha. In terms of literature and culture, the story of the Song Son great war also explains the conflict and harmonizing religion in mother goddess belief.

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Latha, Murugusu, and Devi M.A.R Annamalai Manonmani. "Representations of the Archetypal Indian Women in the Female Characters of K.S. Maniam's "The Return"." International Journal of Social Science And Human Research 06, no. 05 (2023): 2641–48. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7902609.

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The existence of religion and its practices or beliefs do rely greatly on myths. This study attempts to analyse the subconscious of myth through the archetypal and mythical approach by studying the woman characters in the text “The Return” by K.S.Maniam. The women characters in the text represent the image of Hindu Goddesses such as Parvathi and Durga. For the purpose of this article, I have used mythical and archetypal approaches in classifying the characters. I have used Guerin’s (1999) classification of archetypal images of women such as the good mother, the terrible mothe

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Nicolae, Téa. "The Western Revival of Goddess Worship." Feminist Theology 31, no. 2 (2022): 130–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09667350221135089.

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In a modern society arguably disenchanted with religion, numerous Western women are transfixing their reality by making God in their own image. This compelling phenomenon is known as ‘the Goddess Movement’: a non-centralised religious current of neo-pagan origin that reveres the Divine as feminine. The revival of Goddess worship in a vastly secular age which appears not to favour religious devotion is a peculiar occurrence and leads to the following question: Why are women returning to a previously defunct spiritual practice? Building on the research scholars Paul Reid-Bowen and Janet L. Jacob

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Bøgh, Birgitte. "The Phrygian Background of Kybele." Numen 54, no. 3 (2007): 304–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852707x211573.

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AbstractThe cult of Kybele is well known from Greek and Roman sources and well-described in most modern literature on antique religions. The cult, however, is primarily known in its Roman version, which differs greatly from the cult in the ancient Phrygian homeland of Kybele. This article presents the latest research on this subject: iconography and roles, attendants relating to the goddess, cult places, rituals and worship, and transference of the cult from Phrygia to Greece. The Phrygian goddess, characterised by features of wild nature, was represented primarily by predatory birds, and she

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Letizia, Chiara. "The goddess Kumari at the Supreme Court." Focaal 2013, no. 67 (2013): 32–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2013.670103.

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In 2005 a human rights petition at the Supreme Court challenged the tradition of living goddesses called Kumaris and, in particular, that of the former royal Kumari, who lives a sequestered ritual life until puberty, and who used to bless and legitimate the king once a year. The case went on while Nepal overthrew its king and was declared a secular state in 2007. When the judgment was pronounced in 2008, the goddess was still at her post and now blessed the president. This court case is taken to illustrate the directions and form that Nepali secularism is taking. It reveals a distinctive form

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Gairola, Vineet. "Halperin, Ehud. 2020. The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess: Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change." Fieldwork in Religion 18, no. 2 (2023): 257–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.26984.

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Halperin, Ehud. 2020. The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess: Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. iv + 270 pp. ISBN 9780190913588 (hbk). £79.

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Collins, Gabriel Silva, and Antonia E. Foias. "Maize Goddesses and Aztec Gender Dynamics." Material Culture Review 88-89 (December 9, 2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1073849ar.

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This article provides new evidence for understanding Aztec religion and worldviews as multivalent rather than misogynistic by analyzing an Aztec statue of a female deity (Worcester Art Museum, accession no. 1957.143). It modifies examination strategies employed by H. B. Nicholson amongst comparable statues, and in doing so argues for the statue’s identification as a specific member of a fertility deity complex—most likely Xilonen, the Goddess of Young Maize. The statue’s feminine nature does not diminish its relative importance in the Aztec pantheon, but instead its appearance and the depicted

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Kapadia, Karin. "Dancing the Goddess: Possession and Class in Tamil South India." Modern Asian Studies 30, no. 2 (1996): 423–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00016528.

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Religion in India has always been profoundly politicized, which is why it has remained of enduring importance, instead of ‘withering away’ as in the West. Though its presence is somewhat hidden in parties that profess a secular view, it is of vital importance, at the local village level, as a focus for the organization of political factions. More precisely, even if local political parties in Tamilnadu do not organize around religion, they use religion and ritual events for their political purposes, in their struggles to dominate local politics. The fact that this politicization of religious ri

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Hembroff, Nicole. "Entranced by the Goddess: Folklore in North Indian Religion." Religious Studies and Theology 28, no. 2 (2010): 269–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v28i2.269.

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Scarboro, Allen, and Philip Andrew Luck. "The goddess and power: Witchcraft and religion in America." Journal of Contemporary Religion 12, no. 1 (1997): 69–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537909708580790.

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Böck, Barbara. "Ancient Mesopotamian Religion: A Profile of the Healing Goddess." Religion Compass 9, no. 10 (2015): 327–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12165.

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Roscoe, Will. "Priests of the Goddess: Gender Transgression in Ancient Religion." History of Religions 35, no. 3 (1996): 195–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/463425.

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De Matos, Sue'Hellen Monteiro. "AS SAGRADAS DE ASHERAH: CULTO À DEUSA NO ANTIGO ISRAEL." Revista Caminhos - Revista de Ciências da Religião 17, no. 1 (2019): 352. http://dx.doi.org/10.18224/cam.v17i1.7000.

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O presente artigo propõe realizar um levantamento acerca do culto da fertilidade e os papéis das sagradas (qedoshot) de Asherah, e também dos sagrados (qedoshim) que faziam parte deste ambiente cultual, tendo em vista a religião popular e estatal no Antigo Israel. Para tal, se faz necessário um breve comentário acerca da dinâmica religião popular x estatal no Antigo Israel e as os indícios arqueológicos e textuais sobre o culto à Deusa Asherah, para que então possamos discorrer sobre o culto da fertilidade e as mulheres sagradas a serviço da Deusa.  THE SACREDES OF ASHERAH: WHORSHI

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Moath, Al-Fuqaha, Alghazawi Raed, and Al-Manaser Ali. "The Thunderbolt and Winged Nike (Allat) Sculptures from Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan." Arqueologia Iberoamericana 54 (October 14, 2024): 66–76. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13922218.

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This study deals with two sculptures of the thunderbolt and the winged goddess Nike or Allat, discovered at Khirbet et-Tannur, which are now displayed in the Archaeology Museum at the University of Jordan. The study focuses first on the concept of the Nabataean thunderbolt, its historical origins and its role within Nabataean religion and art. It also explores the concept of the goddess Winged Nike (Allat), and her role in the Nabataean religious pantheon. Finally, the research examines the technical artistic treatment of the two sculptures.

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Murphy, Luke John, and Carly Ameen. "The Shifting Baselines of the British Hare Goddess." Open Archaeology 6, no. 1 (2020): 214–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0109.

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AbstractThe rise of social zooarchaeology and the so-called ‘animal turn’ in the humanities both reflect a growing interest in the interactions of humans and non-human animals. This comparative archaeological study contributes to this interdisciplinary field by investigating the ways in which successive human cultures employed religion to conceptualise and interact with their ecological context across the longue durée. Specifically, we investigate how the Iron Age, Romano-British, early medieval English, medieval Welsh, and Information Age populations of Great Britain constructed and employed

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Dasgupta, Tamal. "Archaeology of Prakṛti: Excavating the Lost Myth & Theology of the Goddess Religions". Journal of Bengali Studies 7, № 1 (2024): 5–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14019637.

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<strong>Abstract</strong>: This article stems forth from the research need, that in spite of the prolific archaeological evidence of pre-historic female figurines from Pandu Rajar Dhibi to Chandraketugarh in early Bengal, little or nothing is known about these archaic cults of the feminine. As a response, this article attempts to reconstruct the theology and myth of the religions of the archaic feminine/goddess cults, by connecting the dots between archaeological discoveries of the female figurines and the potentially corresponding scriptural sources and folk traditions, thus recovering the lo

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Beumer, Mark. "A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation." Dějiny věd a techniky 55, no. 1-2 (2022): 25–55. https://doi.org/10.70391/7e6.1-2.b.

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A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation In this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation rituals gradually became as important as that of her mythological father Asklepios, by examining her representation and the meaning of the ancient concept of health (ὑγίεια).

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Fibiger, Marianne. "When The Hindu-Goddess Moves To Denmark." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 41, no. 3 (2012): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v41i3.29.

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This article will focus primarily on how the adaption-process into a Danish environment has provided a local ??kta-cult from Sri Lanka with a special narrative, and with symbols and text that it, most likely, would not have had if it were still in Sri Lanka. This is important with regards to understanding religion as a dynamic phenomenon, but also in relation to understanding how a tradition not only survives in a new setting but also expands in new environments.

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Lizhu, Fan. "The Cult of the Silkworm Mother as a Core of Local Community Religion in a North China Village: Field Study in Zhiwuying, Boading, Hebei." China Quarterly 174 (June 2003): 359–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009443903000226.

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This article deals with an example of local community religion in north China, the activities of a woman spirit-medium in a small village in Hebei province. This woman is believed to represent an ancient goddess, the Silkworm Mother (Cangu nainai), to whom people turn for healing illnesses not cured by Western or Chinese medicine. This study shows that local popular religion is very much alive in contemporary China.

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Thayanithy, Murugu. "A study of the Dathan Inscription." Indian Journal of Tamil 3, no. 3 (2022): 26–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.54392/ijot2236.

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The biographies and historical identities of the Tamils are given prominence in the form of inscriptions, manuscripts and pottery. There are many inscriptions and manuscripts in Batticaloa and Tamil Nadu in Sri Lanka. Thus, the Dathan inscription is one of the major inscriptions referring to the Batticaloa Prehistory and the Batticaloa Manmiyam. This inscription identifies Dathan who came to Batticaloa during the reign of Ethirmannasingan, the Kalinga king who ruled Batticaloa. Dathan, who came from Kongu Naadu in India and belonged to the Vaishnava religion, came here to teach the Pandavas ab

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Patel, Kartikeya C. "Women, Earth, and the Goddess: A Shākta-Hindu Interpretation of Embodied Religion." Hypatia 9, no. 4 (1994): 69–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1994.tb00650.x.

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This essay explores the notion of female embodiment and its relation to the phenomenon of religion. It explains religious beliefs, acts, and events in terms of the worship of the female body. By elucidating this standpoint, this essay hopes to reclaim the centrality of the female body and its importance in the study of philosophy of religion.

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Afrianti, Muflikhatun. "DEWI IZANAMI DAN DEWA IZANAGI DALAM AGAMA SHINTO JEPANG (STUDI SEMIOTIK DALAM FILM NORAGAMI ARAGOTO)." RELIGI JURNAL STUDI AGAMA-AGAMA 14, no. 2 (2019): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/rejusta.2018.1402-02.

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This study examines the mythology of Izanami Goddess and Izanagi God in Japanese Shinto religion and representations of Izanami Goddess and Izanagi God in the film Noragami Aragoto Adachitoka’s creation directed by Kotaro Tamura. This study is important because the story of Izanami Goddess and Izanagi God has never been adopted in modern scientific literature even though it has been listed in several anime in Japan. The research data was collected through documentation on the Kojiki and Nihonsoki books as well as capturing scenes of Noragami Aragoto films. Then analyzed using Christian Metz's

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ChoiHaeYoung. "Goddess and Female : the Role of Religion in Ancient Greece." Women and History ll, no. 8 (2008): 93–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.22511/women..8.200806.93.

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Weller, Robert P. "Goddess Unbound: Chinese Popular Religion and the Varieties of Boundary." Journal of Religion 99, no. 1 (2019): 18–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/700326.

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Christian, Mark A. "Phoenician Maritime Religion: Sailors, Goddess Worship, and the Grotta Regina." Die Welt des Orients 43, no. 2 (2013): 179–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/wdor.2013.43.2.179.

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Raphael, Melissa. "Truth in Flux: Goddess Feminism as a Late Modern Religion." Religion 26, no. 3 (1996): 199–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/reli.1996.0016.

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Stahl, Michael J. "Between City, King, and Empire: Will the Real “Lady of Byblos” Please Stand Up?" Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 20, no. 2 (2021): 225–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692124-12341316.

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Abstract Who was the goddess known anciently as the “Lady of Byblos”? Typically, scholars have tried to answer this question by identifying the goddess’s “true” proper name. By contrast, this article emphasizes the goddess’s primary identification by the city of Byblos as a social-political community in order to analyze the Lady of Byblos’s role in shaping Late Bronze Age Byblos’s political landscape, which included imperial, royal, and collective modes of governance. The goddess’s place in Byblos’s political-religious economy thus serves as a fruitful case study for better conceptualizing thr

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Шауб, И. Ю. "GORGON IN THE RELIGION OF MAEOTES." Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region, no. 13 (February 15, 2022): 701–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.53737/2713-2021.2021.44.40.021.

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Огромная популярность изображений Горгоны Медузы (преимущественно горгонея) на различных артефактах, обнаруженных в курганах Скифии и Боспора, обычно объясняется апотропеическим значением её образа, которое было обусловлено влиянием греческой культуры на варваров. Однако находку золотого горгонея, который был главным объектом поклонения в одном из меотских святилищ у аула Уляп (Адыгея), таким образом интерпретировать невозможно. Сходство между Горгоной Медузой и древней чеченской и ингушской богиней-матерью Тушоли, которая почиталась в виде зловещей маски, позволяет предполагать, что в горгоне

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Clayton, Philip. "Four Prophets." Boom 5, no. 4 (2015): 72–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2015.5.4.72.

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Jesus People, the Esalen Retreat Center, the Free Speech Movement, and Goddess worship are examples of religion California style. Likewise, the leaders of these movements – Lonnie Frisbee, Michael Murphy, Mario Savio, and Starkhawk – provide examples of California prophets. Their stories reveal the religious dimension of some distinctively California values.

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Böck, Barbara. "ÜBERLEGUNGEN ZU EINEM KULTFEST DER ALTMESOPOTAMISCHEN GÖTTIN INANNA." Numen 51, no. 1 (2004): 20–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852704773558214.

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AbstractThe present study aims at interpreting a Sumerian hymn pertaining to the cult of the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, Inanna/Ištar. Though this literary composition belongs to the realm of royal religion, and centres on the relationship between the goddess and the royal personage, the hymn also provides an insight into a cultic feast of rather popular character. The text describes a ritual; its inner logic follows the course of a cultic ceremony. Accordingly, the term "implicit ritual" as opposed to "explicit ritual", or liturgical order, can be applied. Until now the Sume

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Merlini, Marco. "Antlered Female Deer: The Archeological Perspective on a Phantasmagoric Animal." Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis 23, no. 1 (2024): 19–80. https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2024-0002.

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Abstract The article examines the rare phenomenon of a hind crowned as a stag, a creature that only male red deer typically embody due to their antlers. In mythology and folklore, creature is fantastical, akin to the unicorn or phoenix. Only male red deer possess antlers. Hinds crowned as stags are an exceptionally rare phenomenon in nature. In mythology and folklore, this creature is seen as phantasmagoric, akin to the unicorn or the phoenix. Such a being, inherently ambivalent, was often perceived as a monstrum, violating the natural order and evoking both wonder and fear. However, when a ma

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Hutton, Ronald. "The Neolithic great goddess: a study in modern tradition." Antiquity 71, no. 271 (1997): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0008457x.

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Modern belief in the veneration of a single Great Goddess in the European Neolithic is often accompanied by the notion that those cultures of ‘Old Europe’ were woman-centred in society as well as religion. What is the long history which precedes these contemporary notions? What is the complex history of their political development? A chain runs from Classical times to Marija Gimbutas (Meskell 1995) and our own day.

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