Women in MythState University of New York Press, 1996 M12 5 - 270 páginas In Women in Myth, Bettina L. Knapp explores the role played by women in ancient societies through analysis of specific myths from nine different lands. The author probes issues as to how figures such as Isis, Tiamat, Dido, Camilla, Deborah, Iphigenia, Salome, Sita, Amaterasu, Nü-Kwa, and others—some of whom were goddesses—fared. She discusses their abilities and their outlooks, whether their views were gender oriented or androgynous, whether they were deprived of the most basic human rights or excluded from the highest functions of religious worship. Knapp explores whether or not these women had done battle, led armies, founded states, ruled lands, or experienced identity crises. She allows the reader to establish parallels as well as dichotomies between the lives of ancient and contemporary women. The reliving of specific episodes from thousands of years ago as reported in the great myths brings insights into certain relationships and sheds light on events and their ramifications in today's home and workplace. |
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... personality that the ego considers unacceptable and therefore represses , re- jects , or projects , may be transformed into positive factors within the per- sonality . If allowed to remain unconscious , however , shadow characteristics ...
... personality that the ego considers unacceptable and therefore represses , re- jects , or projects , may be transformed into positive factors within the per- sonality . If allowed to remain unconscious , however , shadow characteristics ...
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... personality must transcend gender . His recognition of the destructive effects of excessive masculinity and femi- ninity goes beyond the psychological to the social realm , where he at- tributes our century of total war to the ...
... personality must transcend gender . His recognition of the destructive effects of excessive masculinity and femi- ninity goes beyond the psychological to the social realm , where he at- tributes our century of total war to the ...
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... personality : " Mother of Heaven , " " Queen of all Gods and Goddesses , " " The Divine One , " " The Light - Giver ... personality . Isis's names , images , and associations , whether concrete or abstract , may be viewed as reflections ...
... personality : " Mother of Heaven , " " Queen of all Gods and Goddesses , " " The Divine One , " " The Light - Giver ... personality . Isis's names , images , and associations , whether concrete or abstract , may be viewed as reflections ...
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Bettina L. Knapp. Perhaps Isis's most unusual personality trait - for her time as for ours- was her combination of Spirit and Logos with earthiness and deep feeling , to which multitudes of worshippers responded and on to which they ...
Bettina L. Knapp. Perhaps Isis's most unusual personality trait - for her time as for ours- was her combination of Spirit and Logos with earthiness and deep feeling , to which multitudes of worshippers responded and on to which they ...
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... personality , and , symbolically , the source of the power that transmits " life power from gods to men " ( Pritchard 1955 , 1 ; Clark 1991 , 231 ) . In another text in the Book of the Dead ( Eighteenth to Twenty - first Dy- nasties ...
... personality , and , symbolically , the source of the power that transmits " life power from gods to men " ( Pritchard 1955 , 1 ; Clark 1991 , 231 ) . In another text in the Book of the Dead ( Eighteenth to Twenty - first Dy- nasties ...
Contenido
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The Feminine Maligned | 21 |
JudgeProphetPoetMilitary Leader | 45 |
Marriage or Sacrificial Altar? | 69 |
MotherDaughter Identification | 87 |
Let Us Sing of Arms and Women | 111 |
The Divine Amaterasu | 141 |
Chinas Fragmented Goddess Images | 169 |
Sita Sanctified | 201 |
Conclusion | 239 |
Bibliography | 249 |
Index | 261 |
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Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid Amaterasu ancient and/or Antipas Antipas's Apsu archetypal Artemis Atum Ayodhya Barak beautiful became become birth body brother Camilla Canaanite Carthage century B.C.E. Ch'ang-O Chinese consciousness considered cosmic cult culture dance daughter death Deborah deity Dido Dido's divine earth earthly emperor energy Enuma Elish eternal evil existence father fear feelings female feminine force forest goddess gods Greek Heaven Herod Herodias Hindu Horus Hsi Wang Hsi Wang Mu human husband ibid identified immortality inner Iphigenia Isis Isis's Israelites Izanagi Jael Josephus Judg Kami king Kojiki Kuan Yin Lakshmana land living Lord male Marduk marriage moon mortal mystery myth Nihongi Nü Kwa Osiris Osiris's patriarchal personality primordial psyche psychological Queen Mother Rama Rama's Ramayana religious represented ritual role ruler sacred sacrifice Salome sexual Shinto Sisera Sita Sita's society spheres spiritual subliminal Susano-wo symbolically thou Tiamat tion transformed unconscious wife woman women worship