This collection of accessible essays relates the stories of individual goddesses from around the world, exploring their roles in the cultures from which they ca

This dictionary focuses on more than 9,500 goddesses from hundreds of cultures around the world.

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Goddess characters are revered as fem

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation, and political cont

Throughout time, people have turned to goddesses as symbols of what they seek -- from abundance to healing, from protection to passion. Building on the resurgen