Ancient mirrors of womanhood Volume 1 - Our goddess and heroine heritage

Now from the author of When God Was a Woman this first of two volumes of joyous evidence about the long hidden legacy of accounts of wise and powerful images of womanhood - as known throughout the ages and all over the world. Volume 1 included Goddess and heroine legends from Africa, China, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, Polynesia, Celtic Europe (including England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), Anatolia (land of the Amazons), Semitic Canaan and Mesopotamia - original rituals, prayers, symbols, shrine sites, customs and much more. As exciting to read as a mystery novel, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood may also become your favourite reference.Whether your personal interest is in finding new and inspiring role models for women, Goddess spirituality, new themes and ideas for your own poetry, drama, dance, fiction writing, visual arts, further research - or the pleasure and pride in reading these "wake-up time tales" for women - Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood is a book you'll want to read again, and again, until you know each and every wonderful woman image "by heart".Sculptor and art historian, Merlin Stone has spent the last fifteen years researching and reclaiming evidence on the heritage of woman. Her first book, When God Was a Woman, initially published in England under the title The Paradise Papers - The Suppression of Women's Rites, is now available in an HBJ paperback edition in the U.S., and in French, Danish, Dutch and German translations.The finely detailed pen and ink illustrations are by Cynthia Stone, daughter of the author.