He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the creator, a distant and impersonal immensity. He is the male divine, seen in the many gods of myth, and his life story is told here in this graceful and illuminating account by David Leeming and Jake Page. Illustrating their points with materials ranging from the prehistoric cave paintings to the mystic Jewish Kabbalah, from the ancient Indian Vedas to tales of the North ...
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He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the creator, a distant and impersonal immensity. He is the male divine, seen in the many gods of myth, and his life story is told here in this graceful and illuminating account by David Leeming and Jake Page. Illustrating their points with materials ranging from the prehistoric cave paintings to the mystic Jewish Kabbalah, from the ancient Indian Vedas to tales of the North American Indians and other myths from around the world, Leeming and Page reveal the changing mask of the male divine. We see how that divinity emerged in some areas from cults involving "animal masters" (as in the Bear Man of the Cherokee Indians), sorcerers, and shamans who embarked on spirit journeys. God sometimes appeared as the trickster--as Loki of the Norse people, Legba of Africa's Yoruba, Raven and Coyote of North America, and Krishna of India--both creative and bedeviling. In their previous work together, Goddess , Leeming and Page provided a marvelous biography of the female divine--an account that won a wide and enduring audience. Now, in God , they provide the perfect companion volume--completing, as the authors write, "a record of what we humans believe ourselves at the deepest level to be."
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New. This is an examination of the god archetype from Palaeolithic time to the present day. The essays gathered here relate issues of myth and gender to the use of the male as a metaphor for the great mystery of existence. The evolution of the male god is traced from servant of the goddess to patriarch. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFHF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 234 x 11. Weight in Grams: 380. 1997. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
