[PDF] Devis The Mother Goddesses Large Print eBook

Author : Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 818710838X

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This book has five beautifully illustrated, traditional stories of the Hindu goddesses – Durga, Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Read how Durga destroyed the demon Mahisha, how Kali was born from the frown of the goddess, Ambika, how Lakshmi brings fortune and prosperity and how Saraswati – goddess of wisdom – saved the world from Ravana’s evil brother, Kumbhakarna. Retold in a simple and entertaining style, these fascinating stories are a wonderful source of introduction to the world of Hindu mythology.

Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Vakils Feffer & Simons
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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Takes readers through Shakta imagery, philosophy, beliefs, customs, history, folklore and myth. This book includes tales of Adi-Maya-Shakti, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Parvati, Kali, Durga as well as several village-goddesses such as Kanyakumari, Vaishnav-devi, Bahucharmata and heroines such as Anasuya, Arundhati and Savitri.

Author : Sukumari Bhattacharji
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Hindu goddesses
ISBN : 9788125014386

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This book is a captivating narration of the various legends and folktales that surround the revered goddesses of India. The goddesses not only epitomize the forces of good fighting over evil, but also the source of worldly wellbeing. Ramananda Bandapadhyay s illustrations are symbolically rich and they in themselves constitute a storehouse of information on mythological iconography.

Author : Lynn E. Roller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0520210247

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This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.

Author : Sonalini Chaudhry Dawar
Publisher :
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9788187108375

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The great Lord Shiva is the destroyer of all that is evil in the three worlds of Heaven, Earth and Hell. He forms the Hindu Trinity of gods with Brahma, the creator and Vishnu, the preserver of mankind. This beautifully illustrated book tells the glorious tales of this mighty god - traditional tales from Hindu mythology that are passed on from generation to generation. Read of the fascinating legend of Sati, how Parvati became Lord Shiva's wife, how Shiva came to have a blue throat, why we celebrate the festival of Shivratri and why Ganga was tied up in Shiva's hair.

Author : Mr̥ṇāla Pāṇḍe
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Hindu goddesses
ISBN : 9780140265491

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Writer and journalist Mrinal Pande sees in strong passionate women who defy the strictures of a male-dominated world, shades of the Goddess. There were many such women in her life, women who succeeded beyond the expectations of men. First, there was her forceful mother, the writer Shivani. Then came Badi Amma, the most colourful woman in this book, her domineering, intellectual aunt. There were the friends who silently lived lives of emotional deprivation till they opted out of the world altogether. There were women who made the news--among them prostitutes, activists and reformers. And there were also the women who preyed on men, in conscious contempt of their vulnerability in the grip of sexual passion. In all these women, the writer sees the original Devi, created by the Gods to quell the forces of evil that they had themselves failed to contain, but quickly dismissed by them once victory was theirs. But the Devi keeps coming back in a myriad manifestations of herself, sorrowing, vengeful, but always the prime mover in the lives of men through the ages...

Author : Deanna J. Conway
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 1995-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780875421711

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MAIDEN, MOTHER, CRONE presents the Trinity as ancient symbols of the Goddess, predating Christianity by thousands of years. The book explores longstanding myths and symbols, illuminating ancient, universal human challenges that still exist today. Together with in-depth explanations of goddess archetypes and their relevance to 20th century living, this book will lead you to a state of conscious awareness that can change your life.

Author : David Leeming
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1780235380

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For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.

Author : Adele Getty
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500810330

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Beginning with the Paleolithic Age and drawing on ancient Greek, Chinese, Native American, and Near Eastern cultures, Adele Getty portrays the myriad historical and mythological perspectives of the female archetype. Illustrated.