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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... psychological response . Only she or he knows - or may discover in the process of the analyses that follow - the reasons for such an occurrence . To study the deeper meanings of mythical material may help awaken readers to new ...
... psychological response . Only she or he knows - or may discover in the process of the analyses that follow - the reasons for such an occurrence . To study the deeper meanings of mythical material may help awaken readers to new ...
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... psychological independence . Clarification is difficult and frequently painful . It may lead to confrontation , but this may encourage people to come to grips with their projections — those troublesome powers they project unknow- ingly ...
... psychological independence . Clarification is difficult and frequently painful . It may lead to confrontation , but this may encourage people to come to grips with their projections — those troublesome powers they project unknow- ingly ...
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... psychological to the social realm , where he at- tributes our century of total war to the disjunctions in the repressed per- sonality . ( Pratt 1981 , 10 ) Each time the reader broaches a myth - Egyptian , Sumerian , Greek , Roman ...
... psychological to the social realm , where he at- tributes our century of total war to the disjunctions in the repressed per- sonality . ( Pratt 1981 , 10 ) Each time the reader broaches a myth - Egyptian , Sumerian , Greek , Roman ...
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... psychological evolution , which is my fo- cus , is based on extracts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead , pyramid texts , coffin texts , hymns , and legends such as " The Conflict of Horus and Seth " and " The God and His Unknown Name ...
... psychological evolution , which is my fo- cus , is based on extracts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead , pyramid texts , coffin texts , hymns , and legends such as " The Conflict of Horus and Seth " and " The God and His Unknown Name ...
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... psychological makeup differed from the norm : neither unconsciously nor consciously did she need to project those traits that she lacked onto a god - man - that is , onto a person with godlike authority - since these characteristics ...
... psychological makeup differed from the norm : neither unconsciously nor consciously did she need to project those traits that she lacked onto a god - man - that is , onto a person with godlike authority - since these characteristics ...
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