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Women
Sacred texts by & about women
34 entries · 5 sections
Feminism
Clothed With The SunAnna Kingsford, 1889 — The mystical visions of a pioneering woman occultist.The Garden of Eden; or The Paradise Lost & FoundVictoria Claflin Woodhull, 1890 — A radical reinterpretation of Eden as an allegory for the human body.Woman, Church, and StateMatilda Joslyn Gage, 1893 — One of the earliest feminist historians.The Woman's BibleElizabeth Cady Stanton, 1895 — 19th Century feminists critique the Bible.Woman and the New RaceMargaret Sanger, 1920 — The pioneering birth control activist.Roe v. WadeUS Supreme Court, 1973 — The highest court in the US affirms a woman's right to control her body.Abortion in the BibleJ.B. Hare, 2008 — Suprisingly, there is no mention of medical abortion in the Bible.
Women Warriors and Heroines
The AmazonsGuy Cadogan Rothery, 1910 — Behind the global myths of woman warriors.Religious Cults Associated with the AmazonsFlorence Mary Bennett, 1912 — Evidence for the Amazons and ancient goddess worship in Greece and Asia Minor.Lives of the Greek HeroinesLouisa Menzies, 1880The Authoress of the OdysseySamuel Butler, 1922 — Did a woman write one of the greatest epic poems of all time?The Ancient Irish Goddess of WarWM Hennessey, 1870
Goddesses
The Syrian GoddessLucian of Samosata, 1913 — Lucian's hair-raising description of ancient Goddess worship.The Burden of IsisJames Teackle Dennis, 1910 — Hymns to Isis, a primary Ancient Egyptian Goddess.Hawaiian Legends of VolcanoesW.D. Westervelt, 1916 — Read about the powerful Hawaiian Fire Goddess Pele, who lives in a volcano and surfs on lava.Hymn to DemeterHomer, 1914 — A central Goddess myth, the canonical hymn of the Eleusinian initiatory mysteries.Aradia, Gospel of the WitchesCharles G. Leland, 1899 — The sole written evidence for Dianic worship into modern times.Hymn to the All-MotherDaniel G. Brinton, 1890Hymns to the GoddessArthur Avalon, 1913 — A collection of Hindu devotional hymns to the Goddess.Hymn to Kâlî: Karpûrâdi-StotraArthur Avalon, 1922 — A Tantric hymn to the Hindu Goddess Kali.Lalita Sahasranama; The 1000 Names of the GoddessRishi Singh Gherwal, 1930 — A well-loved Hindu chant extolling the thousand attributes of the Goddess.The Devî Gita(excerpt from)The S'rîmad Devî BhâgawatamSwami Vijnanananda, 1921 — The Hindu religion is one of the only major world religions other than Neopaganism which today worships Goddesses.Hymn to the Goddess of DawnRig Veda, Book 6, Hymn 64.The Hopi Origin MythH.R. Voth, 1905 — The Goddess Huruing Wuhti co-creates the world with the Sun God.Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic EuropeDonald A. Mackenzie, 1917 — The ancient Minoans of Crete are believed by many to have been Goddess worshippers.The Book of the GoddessAnna Livia Plurabelle, 2002The Korana of Mother GoddessJoAnne Marie, 2006