Virgin mother goddesses of antiquity [electronic resource] / Marguerite Rigoglioso.
"Various goddesses of the ancient Mediterranean world were once understood to be Virgin Mothers--creators who birthed the entire cosmos without need of a male consort. This is the first book to explore evidence of the original parthenogenetic power of deities such as Athena, Hera, Artemis, Gaia...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- In the beginning : Chaos, Nyx, and Ge/Gaia
- Athena/Neith/Metis : primordial creatrix of self-replication
- Artemis : virgin mother of the wild, patron of Amazons
- Hera : virgin queen of Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld
- Demeter and Persephone : double goddesses of Parthenogenesis
- The gnostic Sophia : divine generative virgin / Angeleen Campra.