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The Book of Goddesses: Invoke the Powers of the Goddesses to Improve Your Life

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The Book of Goddesses highlights 25 goddesses from different pantheons and offers spells/rituals for them. This would make a fine book to give as a gift for someone very mildly interested in goddess-lore. I would not recommend it to pagan practitioners or anyone seriously interested in goddess myths. The research is very questionable and I am not frankly sure where the author came up with some of her summaries. There is no bibliography listed and some of what she says just does not make sense - Diana is not the 'guardian of virginity;' she is a 'virgin goddess.' There is a difference.

The art is ok and the rituals/spells are ok. Buy for looks, not for content.

This book is really bad. The first part of the book provides a one page summary of each of the 25 Goddesses and these summaries are filled with misinformation and even contradictions. In the Bastet section she claims that Bastet is a moon goddesses associated with the "moon goddess" Hathor. Both of these goddesses are sun goddesses--a fact that the author brings up in the Hathor section when she talks about Hathors headress--a sun disc between cow horns. In the Diana section she says that Diana is shown with cats which she claims are associated with the moon. In mythology cats are associated with the sun and dogs with the moon. And in fact Diana is shown with hounds not cats. I could provide more examples of the misinformation but I think you get the point.As for the rituals--they aren't really rituals but spells and pretty bad ones at that. Her "ritual" for sexual love involves bathing, scenting your skin and dancing with your partner in a candle lit room--that's it! Not much of a ritual or a spell. And all the spells are like this--short, overly simple, boring and unfocused. Two of the sealed spells are unethical--a spell to attract a specific lover and another to get revenge on a lover who has hurt you. A lot of the illustrations in the first section are nice. One of them was pretty inappropriate--In Lakshimi's summary there is a full page picture--not of Lakshmi--of Her husband Vishnu--strange.This book really is just awful--don't waste your money. The subtitle reads "Invoke the Powers of the Goddesses to Improve your Life"--this book just doesn't deliver what it promises. There is no power invoked by the "rituals" in this book.