The Double Goddess by Noble, Vicki -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Acknowledgments Maps of Archaeological Sites of Ancient Goddess Cultures Table of Contents Introduction: What Is the Double Goddess? Chapter 1: Power of Two: The Legacy of the Double Goddess

BIOLOGY IS DESTINY: ALL WOMEN ARE TWINS THE DIVINE TWO-IN-ONE MIRRORING HER, MIRRORING TIME DARK-LIGHT GODDESS SPIRITUALITY SIAMESE TWINS: MERGED DOUBLE GODDESS IMAGES THE DOUBLE AXE: SHORTHAND FOR WOMEN THE DOUBLE AXE AND FEMALE RULE LONG FEMALE LINEAGE OF THE DOUBLE AXE

Chapter 2: Authentic Female Sovereignty: Chains and Doubles

THE DOUBLE GODDESS SHRINES OF ÇATALHÖYÜK WOMEN SHARING POWER: THE QUEENS RULED TOGETHER THE “TWO LADIES”: A EUPHEMISM FOR RULING QUEENS AFRICAN QUEEN-MOTHER AND QUEEN-SISTER: EGYPT’S “MIGHTY ONES” THE TWO HERAS

Chapter 3: Shaman Women and High Priestesses

CEMETERIES AND SHAMAN WOMEN YOGINIS, BEE PRIESTESSES, AND THE MAGIC SOMA MEDEA AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE THE ETERNAL POWER AND PRESTIGE OF GOLD THE TRANCE-INDUCED STARE OF THE EYE GODDESS ISLAND SANCTUARIES OF THE AEGEAN MEDITERRANEAN “WILD WOMEN” ENHEDUANNA, THE SHAMAN-PRIESTESS OF INANNA IRON AGE SHAMAN WOMEN SCYTHIAN SHAMAN-PRIESTESSES AND TIBETAN DAKINIS: IS THERE A DIRECT CONNECTION?

Chapter 4: Amazons in the Aegean and Beyond: A Bronze Age Female Lineage

THE TROJAN WOMEN EARLY AMAZONS RULED IN DUAL QUEENSHIP MELLAART’S DOUBLE AMAZON QUEENS THE AMAZONS ENTER HISTORY DESTRUCTION ON THE MAINLAND AND MIGRATION TO THE ISLANDS AMAZONS IN THE GREEK ARGOLID: THE WARRIOR GODDESS EMERGES AMAZON HOARDS IN BRONZE AGE EUROPE? EURASIAN AMAZONS AMAZONS IN CHINA? AFRICAN AMAZON WARRIORS STANDING HER GROUND

Chapter 5: Sacred Sexuality and Shape-Shifting

THE SHAPE-SHIFTING SHAMANISTIC FEMALE EMPTINESS AND FEMALE SHAMANISM ROOTS OF TANTRA: PRIESTESSES AND GODDESSES CAN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN REDISCOVER THE ANCIENT SEXUAL RITES? LESBIAN SEXUALITY: WOMEN-LOVING WOMEN SHAPE-SHIFTING CONTEMPORARY SHAMAN WOMEN THE SHAMANISTIC FLUIDITY OF GENDER

Conclusion: Acknowledging, Developing, and Sharing Our Power

FIGHTING BACK SUFFICIENT-TO-HERSELF

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