Sheela na gig
Inner Traditions Bear and Company (Verlag)
978-1-62055-595-8 (ISBN)
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For millennia, the human imagination has been devoted to the Goddess, so it is hardly a surprise to find images of supernatural females like Sheela na gigs adorning sacred and secular architecture throughout Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland. Appearing on rural churches, castles, bridges, holy wells, tombs, and standing stones, these powerful images of a figure fearlessly displaying her vulva embody the power of the Dark Goddess over the mysteries of sex, life, death, and rebirth.
Exploring the art and myth of the Sheela na gig from Celtic and Classical times back to Paleolithic cave art, Starr Goode shows how the Sheela embraces a conundrum of opposites: she clearly offers up her ripe sex yet emanates a repelling menace from the upper half of her hag-like body. Through more than 150 photographs, the author shows how the Sheela is a goddess with the power to renew, a folk deity used to help women survive childbirth, and, as a guardian of doorways and castle walls, a liminal entity representing the gateway to the divine. She explains how these powerful images survived eradication during the rise of Christianity and retained their preeminent positions on sacred sites, including medieval churches.
Starr Goode, MA, teaches writing and literature at Santa Monica College. An award winning writer, she has been profiled in the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. She was the producer and moderator for the cable TV series The Goddess in Art, the episodes of which are now housed in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum as well as available on YouTube. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Invitation In PART I History 1 Historical Overview: Agreements and Disagreements 2 The Sheela as Sin 3 Celtic Connection 4 Medieval Mindset on Pagan Soil 5 The Sheela’s Classical Forebears 6 The Dark Goddess of the Neolithic 7 The Cave Art of the Paleolithic PART II Journeys 8 On the Trail of the Sheelas: Ireland 9 On the Trail of the Sheelas: Great Britain PART III Image 10 The Power of Images 11 The Creative Source 12 The Return of the Goddess 13 The Secret of the Sheelas Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.01.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 155 b&w illustrations |
Verlagsort | Rochester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 203 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 1123 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-62055-595-6 / 1620555956 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-62055-595-8 / 9781620555958 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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