Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources (Orbis Biblicus Et Orientalis)
Book Description
This comprehensive scholarly exploration delves into the fascinating world of ancient Mesopotamian goddesses, revealing how divine feminine powers evolved across three thousand years of human civilization. Julia Asher-Greve examines the complex transformations that occurred within goddess traditions, including remarkable instances where deities shifted gender roles and underwent profound changes in their spiritual functions and cultural significance.
Drawing from both written texts and visual artifacts, this work illuminates how ancient peoples understood and represented divine feminine energy through various artistic media. The author traces the intricate processes of religious syncretism, showing how different goddess traditions merged, separated, and transformed over millennia, ultimately leading to both diversification and unification of feminine divine roles.
For modern spiritual seekers interested in goddess traditions and feminine spirituality, this book offers valuable insights into how ancient cultures conceptualized divine feminine power and its relationship to human society. The fluid nature of these ancient deities, with their multiple roles and overlapping functions, provides a rich foundation for understanding how spiritual traditions adapt and evolve while maintaining their essential sacred qualities.
Through careful analysis of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian sources, readers gain access to one of humanity's oldest continuous goddess traditions, offering perspectives that can deepen contemporary spiritual practice and understanding of the divine feminine across cultures and time periods.
Who Is This For?
📖 Reading Level: Long (> 400 pages) (~13 hours)
📄 Length: 460 pages
What You'll Discover
- ✓ Explore Middle Eastern Goddesses
- ✓ Explore Sumerians
- ✓ Explore Assyro-Babylonian religion
- ✓ Explore Goddesses in art
- ✓ Explore Gudinnor
- ✓ Explore Goddesses
- ✓ Explore Sumerians, religion
- ✓ Explore Mythology
