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The Nine Maidens
- Priestesses of the Ancient World
Engelsk Paperback
The Nine Maidens
- Priestesses of the Ancient World
Engelsk Paperback

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Whether as the mothers of the Norse God Heimdall, Morgan and her sisters on Avalon, the nine sisters at the heart of the founding myth of the Gikuyu of Kenya, or witches battling with the Irish St Patrick, stories of nine women, often attending a goddess or linked to a heroic or divine male, exist across much of our world. Triggered by a local story still told in his native Dundee, Stuart McHardy has traced what seems to be memories of groups of nine women, most likely some kind of priestesses, across much of Europe and as far as Siberia, Korea, India and Africa. Whether as Pictish saints, Muses, Valkyries, Druidesses or witches, the tales of these groups of nine women transcend a vast range of cultural and linguistic boundaries. The painting of nine women dancing round a priapic male in a Catalonian cave painting over fifteen thousand years old suggests these groups may well have been one of the oldest cultural institutions humanity has known. 

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781804250914
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1804250910
Udg. Dato:
4 aug 2023
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Luath Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
4 aug 2023
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge