Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to SaintBeacon Press, 1988 M02 29 - 188 pages Recounts the story of the grain protectress, an image that has persisted from the ancient Near East to the classical world and still survives in folksongs and village celebrations today. |
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Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint Pamela C. Berger No preview available - 1988 |
Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint Pamela C. Berger No preview available - 1988 |
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agrarian Amadour ancient Asherah associated Autun ballad Berecynthia Brigid Carnal Çatal Hüyük celebrated Celtic ceremony Ceres Christ Christian church cock crop cult culture Cybele cycle deity Demeter depicted Dramatic earth mother earth mother goddess ecclesiastical farmers feast February female saints fertility festival field figurines Flight into Egypt folkloric France French Gaul Gennep Gimbutas goddess figure grain goddess Grain Miracle grain protectress harvest Herod Holkham Bible Imbolc Jesus John of Tynemouth king land Macrine Mary medieval Middle Ages Milburga mother goddess Nerthus oats oral pagan Paris peasant Photo plant play plowing and sowing poem popular pre-Christian procession protection purification recorded rites ritual role Roman rural Saint Blaise Saint Radegund Saint Walpurga Saint-Julien-du-Sault scene Sementiva song sower sowing goddess sown spring statue story symbol syncretized tale temple Terra Mater thirteenth century topos tradition twelfth century vegetation venerated vernacular verses Virgin Walpurga wheat worship