Helen Benigni

Mythology of Venus

Ancient Calendars and Archaeoastronomy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons and myths identified with the planet Venus. This book reveals the archetype of a goddess associated with the planet Venus who is identified with transformation, spiritual resurrection, and enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780761860624
• ISBN-10: 0761860622
• Artikelnr.: 36762325

Autorenporträt

Helen Benigni graduated with a Ph.D. in American Literature from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1989. She is Professor at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia where she teaches composition, literature, and comparative mythology. The first book she wrote is entitled The Myth of the Year: Returning to the Origin of the Druid Calendar (2003). She is the author of The Goddess and the Bull.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Morgan Llywelyn
Preface
Helen Benigni
Acknowledgements
1. The Emergence of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the Paleolithic and
Neolithic Era
Helen Benigni
2. The Epiphany of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the Bronze and Iron Age
Helen Benigni
3. Love Goddesses of the Early Historic Age
Miriam Robbins Dexter
4. Venus, The Caillichín na Mochóirighe of Newgrange, Ireland
Anthony Murphy
Appendix I: The Astronomy of the Nights of Venus
Barbara Carter
Appendix II: The Eight Year Cycle of Venus
Barbara Carter
Appendix III: Of K'uk'ulcán and Quetazlcóatl, Venus in Mesoamerica
R.P. Hale
Index
Plates
About the Authors