From Moon Goddesses to Virgins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Moon Goddesses to Virgins write by Peter Herman Sigal. This book was released on 2021-11-03. From Moon Goddesses to Virgins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they neither fully abandoned these views nor completely adopted the formulation of sexuality prescribed by Spanish Catholicism. Instead, they evolved hybridized notions of sexual desire, represented in the figure of the Virgin Mary as a sexual goddess, whose sex acts embodied both creative and destructive components. This highly innovative book decodes the process through which this colonization of Yucatan Maya sexual desire occurred. Pete Sigal frames the discussion around a series of texts, including the Books of Chilam Balam and the Ritual of the Bacabs, that were written by seventeenth and eighteenth century Maya nobles to elucidate the history, religion, and philosophy of the Yucatecan Maya communities. Drawing on the insights of philology, discourse analysis, and deconstruction, he analyzes the sexual fantasies, fears, and desires that are presented, often unintentionally, in the "margins" of these texts and shows how they illuminate issues of colonialism, power, ritual, and gender.
From Moon Goddess to Virgin Mary
From Moon Goddess to Virgin Mary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Moon Goddess to Virgin Mary write by Patricia Monnett Hayes. This book was released on 2008. From Moon Goddess to Virgin Mary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Great Cosmic Mother
The Great Cosmic Mother - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Cosmic Mother write by Monica Sjoo. This book was released on 2013-12-10. The Great Cosmic Mother available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage. Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important text shows even more clearly that the religion of the Goddess--which is tied to the cycles of women’s bodies, the seasons, the phases of the moon, and the fertility of the earth--was the original religion of all humanity.
The White Goddess
The White Goddess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The White Goddess write by Robert Graves. This book was released on 1966-01-01. The White Goddess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.
From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins
From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins write by Ariadne Staples. This book was released on 2013-02-01. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The role of women in Roman culture and society was a paradoxical one. On the one hand they enjoyed social, material and financial independence and on the other hand they were denied basic constitutional rights. Roman history is not short of powerful female figures, such as Agrippina and Livia, yet their power stemmed from their associations with great men and was not officially recognised. Ariadne Staples' book examines how women in Rome were perceived both by themselves and by men through women's participation in Roman religion, as Roman religious ritual provided the single public arena where women played a significant formal role. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins argues that the ritual roles played out by women were vital in defining them sexually and that these sexually defined categories spilled over into other aspects of Roman culture, including political activity. Ariadne Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions.
