Grandmothers of The Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
In Grandmothers of the Light, a collection of goddess stories gleaned from the vast oral tradition of Native America, the author evokes a world of personal freedom and communal harmony, of free communication among people, animals, and spirits, of magic and its discipline, of balance between the...
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In Grandmothers of the Light, a collection of goddess stories gleaned from the vast oral tradition of Native America, the author evokes a world of personal freedom and communal harmony, of free communication among people, animals, and spirits, of magic and its discipline, of balance between the scared and the mundane.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807081037 (0807081035)
Publish date: September 30th 1992
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 268
Edition language: English
I thought this book sounded interesting and I decided to give it a read. Paula Gunn Allen does her research well and the history she relates is interesting.When it came to retelling the stories of the Goddesses, however, it was pretty dull and I had a hard time staying interested. The book isn't bad...