The Great Cosmic Mother · Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Sjoo, Monica -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dedication Epigraph Contents Preface Introduction I. Women’s Early Culture: Beginnings

The First Sex “In the Beginning, We Were All Created Female” Marx and the Matriarchy The Original Black Mother Women as Culture Creators The First Speech

II. Women’s Early Religion

The First Mother The Organic Religion of Early Women Female Cosmology: The Creation of the Universe The Cosmic Serpent The World Egg: Yin/Yang The Gynandrous Great Mother Mysteries of the Throne, the Cave, and the Labyrinth The Cult of the Dead The Mother of Wild Animals and the Dance

III. Women’s Culture and Religion in Neolithic Times

The First Settled Villages Southeast Europe: The-Bird-and-Snake Goddess The Megalithic Tomb: The Moon and the Stone The Earth Mound as Cosmic Womb of the Pregnant Goddess The Islands of Malta and Gozo Twelve Circling Dancers Earth Spirit, Serpent Spirals, and Blind Springs Underground Caverns and Alchemic Mysteries The Goddess at Avebury in Britain Moon Time: The Great Intellectual Triumph of Women’s Culture Lunar Calendars Moon Minds Moon Mother The Cow Goddess and New Foods Mother and Daughter, and Rebirth The Moon Tree The Dark of the Moon and Moon Blood Moon and Womb Menstrual Rites: Rights and Taboos The Original Woman: Witch, Rebel, Midwife, and Healer Goddess of the Witches Crete and the Bronze Age Tantra and the World Spine

IV. Patriarchal Culture and Religion

God as Father The Olympian Male Sun’s Victory over the Dark Mother The Sun God The Jealous God Split in the Garden Life as a Mistake The Witch-Hunts Denial of the Mother: Denial of the People The American Split “The Divine Homosexual Family” The Machine Beyond the Male God and His Machine . . . . . . The Magic Flight Home Respell the World

Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index About the Author Praise Copyright About the Publisher