Shamans, Skywatchers, and Storytellers: Wisdom from the Ice Ages
a six-week online course offered in 2010.
This class was designed to “meet around an on-line hearth” to explore myths and realities of life for our most ancient ancestors, the tribes of the Ice Age. I am interested to share resources with other scholars of Ice Age life, art, and symbolism. Contact me here:
Sid Reger, Ed.D., is a goddess artist and scholar whose passions are prehistoric art and goddess cultures. Sid is a member of the faculty of the Women’s Thealogical Institute, and the president of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology.
The anthology Heart of the Sun: An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmet will be published this year by Goddess Institute Publishing. The editors, Dr. Candace Kant and Dr. Anne Key, Priestesses of the Temple of Goddess Spirituality Dedicated to Sekhmet, describe the project as follows: “As Priestesses and scholars, we endeavor to create an anthology that will serve as a resource and a source of inspiration to those that want to honor Sekhmet and explore more about Her multiple manifestations.”
Watch this site for more information detailing this exciting publication and other projects of Goddess Institute Publishing.
The first Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Goddess Studies was presented April 24, 2010, at ASWM’s Green Goddess Conference. The award went to Dawn E. Work-MaKinne, Ph.D., a graduate of Union Institute & University. Her dissertation, Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Sacred Female in Germanic Europe, was commended for its “skilled integration of important German language material critical to studies of mythology.”
Dr. Work-MaKinne received her Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2010, with a Concentration in Arts and Sciences and a specialization in Women’s Studies in Religion. Continue reading “2010 Kore Award for Best Dissertation”
Women and Goddesses in Myth and Sacred Text: An Anthology, Tamara Agha-Jaffar, editor. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005.
Reviewed by Johanna H. Stuckey, Ph.D., York University, Toronto, Canada
Women and Goddesses in Myth and Sacred Text
When I was teaching Goddess courses in the 1970s to 1990s, I would have been really grateful to have had access to this textbook. It does what few other such books do: it provides key selections in translation from religious and mythical material pertaining to the goddess/woman being studied. Thus, students can dip into, among others, such works as the Babylonian creation story, the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Qur’an, and the Ramayana.
The goddesses and sacred women Agha-Jaffar treats are as follows: Isis, Inanna, Tiamat, Demeter and Persephone, Circe, Medea, Sita, Kali, Amaterasu, Kuan Yin, Lilith, Eve, Virgin Mary, Hawwa, Maryam, Oshun, White Buffalo Woman, and Corn Mother. If I had been picking the ones to include, I probably would have left out two of the sacred women (Circe and Medea) and added the Canaanite/Israelite Asherah and another Greek or Asian goddess or both. However, Agha-Jaffar’s choices reflect the course she was teaching and for which she devised this textbook.
Patricia Monaghan has written a series of articles called “Approaches to the Study of Goddess Myths and Images” for the Seasonal Salon, the on-line journal for the Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess, International. The articles explore the contributions of pioneer researchers over the last 150 years.
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