Embark on a literal and spiritual journey of discovery and rediscovery as you explore the ancient world of women-centered culture and the reemergence of goddess consciousness in modern women's lives. Part celebration, part travelogue, and part historical research, this compelling work takes you on a tour of places of historical significance, offering explanations and discussions of artifacts and drawings and their relationship to the goddess of earth and cosmos. Visit Greek temples, prehistoric caves, stone circles, giant passage mounds, and other monuments. At each site, the author draws upon her own experiences and adeptly combines them with ancient traditions, archaeology, and mythology to beautifully conjure landscapes imprinted with the symbolic form of women.
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Rachel Pollack was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. She holds an honours degree in English from New York University, a Masters in English from Claremont Graduate School and has taught English at New York State University. The author of several books, she is the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction for Unquenchable Fire.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Rachel Pollack's unique insights are an important addition to the literature on Goddess religion.
She brings alive the visual impact of the body of the Goddess in landscape--including the surroundings of sacred sites in Europe--in a way I've not experienced in other books. She sheds new light on parts of Greek mythology I previously felt were hopelessly fragmented by patriarchy. In particular, her moving discussion of the Persephone myth transforms many of the most disturbing aspects of the patriarchal version of this myth into a metaphor of the continuing power of the Goddess and of women.
Add to this, Pollack's fearless look at sexuality, gender fluidity and gender-changing in ancient Goddess religions and you have a wonder-filled tour de Source.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Wow. What a book. It's totally changed my view of human history (and, more to the point, herstory) and brought fresh insights about the Goddess. The dawn of civilization and religion, the matrifocal civilization of Catal Huyuk and Crete, the Gallae, and the Eleusinian Mysteries are all covered, with a spin on such things as landscape, the labrys, and the Venus of Willendorf that I've never seen elsewhere.
Oddly enough, she manages to miss the central mystery of the Attis myth -- that He was reborn as a woman -- but all in all, this is an absolute tour de force.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Rachel Pollack is the world's foremost expert of the tarot. Her book THE BODY OF THE GODDESS is my personal favorite of all of her many works. This book documents her travels in Malta and other places to visit sacred Goddess sites. It is a personal book that makes you feel that Rachel is actually telling you these adventures in person. Rachel Pollack believes that Goddess spirituality is what all beings on this planet need. I completely agree with her ideas. Patriarchal medicine, religon and politics are destroying our earth. The Bush administration seems to be determined to wage war against vulnerable people who get in his way. Goddess spirituality and tarot can make us change our thinking to a way of thinking in tune with the earth and it's inhabitants including nonhuman animal life and nonhuman plant life. Thank you Ms. Pollack for your incredable, healing writing. I hope Ms. Pollack and Anne Ogborn do a book together sometime. That would be so COOL!
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Important Insights on Physicality and the Goddess
Pollack's main idea is that the body of the Goddesss is present to us when we honor the physical body and see relationships of our physicality to nature. Read more
Published on July 5, 2008 by Cynthia Roses-Thema, Ph.D.
Rachel's masterpiece
This book is clearly by a woman who loves her Goddess work. She is a great novelist and tarot writer. The best trans writer since CAROLINE COSSEY. BUY THIS BOOK NOW!!!
Published on March 24, 2006 by srs lady
An Introduction to the Goddess
Rachel P. has written a beautiful book on the Goddess. I recommend it. And I look forward to her new book on tarot for kids.
Published on June 11, 2005 by tarotlady
magic from Rachel Pollack
Transgende author Rachel Pollack has written a magical book. 5 stars!
Published on June 3, 2005 by Sarah Smith
a gift from the Goddess
Rachel Pollack's The Body Of The Goddess reads like a gift from the Goddess Herself. I recommend it to all seekers of truth.
Published on May 21, 2005 by feminist astrologer
A magical book
Rachel Pollack ahs written a book about the Goddess and our earth. This book is not just for females alone. It can appeal to both genders, sexual orientations and races. Read more
Published on April 20, 2005 by keith Gracen
Sexism At It's Greatest
Okay I wanted to share my opinion which although biased (I'm a man afterall) has it merrit. First off when I read this book I tried to approach it with an open mind but it that... Read more
Published on December 28, 2004 by Jeffrey Bunting
The Body Of The Goddess
I am very enthusiastic about The Body Of The Goddess". Ms. Pollack travelled to sites all over the world devoted to the worship of the Great Goddess and all of her many... Read more
Published on June 16, 2004 by aleksei green
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