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The Feminist Companion to Mythology

By Carolyne Larrington (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Pandora Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0044408501, 9780044408505
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25670028 bytes)
Pages
494\498
Topic
Religion
Time added
2021-10-31 11:19:31

Description

Where do stories come from? The abundance of stories in 'The Feminist Companion to Mythology' bedazzles and delights. The power of the story to shape the characters of its listeners, and the power of the listeners to reshape the story in the retelling, is at the hub of it. Women, in this case, are the characters and re-tellers, and the myths they examine are from the Near East, Europe, Asia, Oceania, America. Myth is defined by the anthology's editor, Carolyne Larrington, as the stock of stories that feature the divine, but since contributors survey folk-tale and ceremony featuring symbolism as real to the story-tellers as their own voices - in addition to legend and texts known to be historical - she concludes that myth's definition has to stretch. Myth is, rather, a continuum, a collection 'of a web of meanings'. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii INTRODUCTION ix Part 1. The Near East The Mythology of the Ancient Near East / Iris Furlong 3 Egypt: Myth and the Reality / M. V. Seton-Williams 23 The Hebrew God and his Female Complements / Athalya Brenner 48 Part 2. European Greece / Barbara Smith 65 Slav Mythology / Julia Vytkovskaya 102 Celtic Goddesses: Myths and Mythology / Juliette Wood 118 Scandinavia / Carolyne Larrington 137 Mythology of the Eskimos / Birgitte Sonne 162 Part 3. Asia Indian Myth / Emily Kearns Chinese Myths and Legends / Tao Tao Liu 227 Part 4. Oceania Australian Aboriginal Myth / Isobel White & Helen Payne 251 Maori Mythology / Margaret Orbell 288 Hawaii / Elizabeth Diab 305 Part 5. America Southwest Native American Mythology / Marta Weigle 333 Mexican Mythology / Susanna Rostas 362 South America: The Interpretation of Myth / Penelope Harvey 388 Part 6. Goddesses in the Twentieth Century Witchcraft as Goddess Worship / Rosemary Ellen Guiley 411 On Psychic Activism: Feminist Mythmaking / Jane Caputi 425 Women’s Rewriting of Myth / Diane Purkiss 441 NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS 459 INDEXES 463

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