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Mother Mysteries

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I thought this book captured the wonder and agony of childbirth and motherhood. I read it during the last part of my 2nd pregnancy and wish I had read it during the 1st!

I really enjoyed this book. The author approaches the transition to motherhood from a universal, mythic perspective. She talks both about her personal experieces with motherhood as well as about how those experiences relate to the depiction of motherhood in myth and religion around the world. She draws very interesting parallels and really elucidates the sense of motherhood as being bigger than oneself. For example, the author talks about her initial desire to have children not as something soft and sweet, but instead like being forcibly abducted by the mother goddess and dragged into some subterranean realm.