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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Goddess"”.
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Baby Goddess
For as long as she can remember, twenty-two-year-old archaeology student Imogen has been compared to Athena: the first child, born from her father’s forehead, bearing a spear and shield. Following her youngest brother’s death, Imogen struggles to reconcile her failed role as the oldest sister and …
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The Goddess and Guinevere
… worship of the female archetype, or Great Mother Goddess by Stone Age peoples appears to have been prevalent world wide. By the High Neolithic Age, the goddess is depicted in statuary with an infant son who will be worshipped with her as the Sun King. During the Dark Age, Guinevere, as a Picti …
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Haḍimbā Becoming Herself: A Himalayan Goddess in Change
The dissertation examines the cult of the goddess Haḍimbā that is located in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh). Massive transformations introduced in the region in recent years by means of better transportation systems, a developing capitalist economy, new …
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Finding the goddess within : the goddess archetype in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Robber Bride.
… a psychoanalytic theory suggesting that Greek goddesses can act as archetypal bridges between modern woman and the primordial feminine. An examination of Margaret Atwood's novels using Bolen's theory reveals the development of women's search for unification with the Goddess archetype. In …
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At the feet of the goddess : A comparative study of local goddess worship in Khurdapur, a village settlement in Orissa and Cholavandan, a small town in Tamilnadu
This thesis is an examination of the local goddesses and their worship in two contrasting field sites. The settlement of Khurdapur consists of five small villages situated a short distance outside Bhubaneswar in Orissa. Cholavandan, on the other hand, is a small town located near to Madurai in …
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Goddess in Flux: Devotional Intimacy and Everyday Life at a Regional Indian Pilgrimage Site
… pilgrimage temple of Rani Bhatiyani, a Hindu goddess, in rural Rajasthan. Informed by scholarship on lived religion, it examines aspects of rural life that have hitherto been unrecognized as important to religious sphere within Hindu studies. Through ethnographic research, this study brings …
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The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology
This minor dissertation engages a theoretical feminist discourse to identify the lack of benevolent female relationships in the development of religious mythology. The study explores two diverse belief systems, Hinduism and Shi'ism, in order to demonstrate that the feminine is reduced to a …
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Masks of the Dark Goddess in Arthurian Literature: Origin and Evolution of Morgan le Fay
<p>The world of Arthurian legend is one steeped in mythology and magic, reflecting ancient Celtic traditions and tales that long preceded it. Such tales often feature perplexing and seemingly contradictory characters who drive complex plotlines and frequently challenge primary figures, greatly …
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A Critical Conversation on Indigeneity, Colonialism, and Feminism in Natsuo Kirino's <em>The Goddess Chronicle</em>
<p>Natsuo Kirino’s novel <em>The Goddess Chronicle </em>has received little attention in regard to Western scholarship. However, Kirino’s other works in her literary canon are well renowned for their gritty and uncensored feminist commentary on contemporary Japanese society. This thesis aims to …
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Uncovering the Unrealistic Domestic Goddess: A Modified Grounded Theory Approach to Gender Stereotypes in Parenting Blogs
… the blog were as follows: Unrealistic Domestic Goddess, Perceived Gender Conformity of Children, Part-time Domestic Father, Realistic Domestic Mother, Normalizing Feminine Characteristics and Interests in Sons, Full-time Domestic Father, Negative Stereotypes Against Women, and Perceived Gender …
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La Fortuna romaine et l'héritage grec
… and this, especially through the cult of the goddess Fortuna. Indeed, it has two significant innovations compared to other deities of the Roman pantheon, since on the one hand, it completely changed in nature over the centuries, and, on the other hand, when this gradual change, Goddess Latial …
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
… are presented in their entirety in The White Goddess - A Historical Grammar o f Poetic Myth (1948). However, this dissertation aims to argue that Graves’s four prose works, published in the 1940s and early 1950s - written at almost the same time as he was composing various drafts of the …
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From housewife to domestic goddess and beyond: an exploration into the significance of women’s role as food providers in a contemporary Irish context
This thesis is centrally concerned with issues of gender equality in relation to food work in families, in the context of social change in contemporary Ireland. Through the lens of food work it traces how this work as a specific aspect of gendered roles has evolved historically and is enacted in …
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A feminist archetypal analysis of Diane di Prima's Loba poems for performance.
… focused on the return of ancient images of the goddess as the primary metaphor for the feminine myth. Utilizing feminine typologies from Jungian archetypalists and feminist scholars, this study summarizes the research on the archetypal feminine in order to analyze Diane di Prima's Loba poems. An …
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Redemption and the Other: The Supernatural Narrator and the Intertextual (Sub)version of the Miltonic Command
… the Canaanite authors wished to rid the world of Goddess worship and, by humanizing Eve, they successfully obliterate that form of worship. As a result of this obliteration of the Goddess, Eve, as a humanized form of the ancient Goddess Asherah, remains unredeemed for her sin and forever held to …
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Four Greco-Roman Era Temples of Near Eastern Fertility Goddesses: An Analysis of Architectural Tradition
… in what is today Northern Syria. The local goddess was known as Dea Syria to the Romans and Atargatis to the Greeks. Lucian's so-named De Dea Syria is an important record of life and religion in Roman Syria. De Dea Syria presents to us an Oriental cult of a fertility goddess as seen through …
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