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The Mighty Goddess

World Myths

by Sally Pomme Clayton
Sophie Herxheimer
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The Goddess in all her glory! A celebration of important and powerful goddess mythologies from around the world.
This stunning collection brings together goddess mythologies from across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten — spectacular! Written by pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton, whose 30-year career has focused on researching female protagonists, these tales are conjured in vivid and poetic language.
The book includes information about the pattern of myths and how they are represented globally and revels in the female, exploring desire, death, and the female body. Journey from Alaska to Mesopotamia and visit ancient Persian and Aztec cultures, meeting Sedna whose fingertips become sea creatures and Persephone whose sojourn in the Underworld brings Spring.
This is the most significant contemporary collection of goddess myths and encourages readers to value the female, preserve culture and re-ignite storytelling traditions.

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  • Release date

    March 2, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781803992983

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781803992983
      • File size: 18564 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      September 1, 2023
      Exploring the many faces of goddess mythologies, seasoned storyteller Clayton shows that the goddess' story is told in many tongues, and her form takes on many shapes, but her tale is a shared one. Clayton intertwines well-known stories from Egypt, Greece, and Christianity with less widely-known myths from Inuit, Aztec, and Norse lore, allowing the wisdom of diverse traditions to enrich the reader's understanding of the goddess as creator, virgin, warrior, lover, mother, and crone. Complementing Clayton's narrative, papercut illustrations from artist Sophie Herxheimer breathe life into each myth, and the simplicity of these images not only unifies the varied tales but also directs attention to the heart of the book: the tales of passion, death, power-- storytelling itself--all held within the female form. The goddess is just as likely to nurture as she is to wreak mass destruction. Clayton and Herxheimer's project is a woven one, relating the complex nature and stories of the goddess that transcend cultural boundaries.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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