The Long Journey Home: Re-Visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time (Paperback)
$30.00 - Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The Long Journey Home The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship, love between women, initiations into puberty and old age, the mother-daughter bond, death, and ecol...
Full description- Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
- Published: 01 May 2001
- Format: Paperback 316 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Folklore, Myths & Legends | Gender Studies: Women | Psychology | Analytical & Jungian Psychology | Archaeology | History Of Religion
- ISBN 13: 9781570626852 ISBN 10: 1570626855
- Sales rank: 667,812
Other books
Full description for The Long Journey Home
The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship, love between women, initiations into puberty and old age, the mother-daughter bond, death, and ecological renewal Christine Downing has combined essays, prose, poetry, and even performance art with her own insightful commentary to shed new light on the myth's ancient meanings and to offer new insights in its implications for contemporary men and women.
