
DESCENT TO THE GODDESS
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Inner City, Toronto, 1981. ISBN 0-919123-05-8. Trade soft cover, 111 pages including Glossary, Notes, Bibliography and Index. Very good; light edge and cover wear, light corner creases; tight binding. Small smudge on first page and fore-edge of first few pages; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; one black & white illustration; small pencil erasure on verso of rear wrap. ‘This is a highly original and provocative book about women’s freedom and the need for an inner, female authority in a masculine-oriented society. Combining ancient texts and modern dreams, the author, a practicing therapist, presents a way of feminine initiation. Inanna-Ishtar, Sumerian Goddess of Heaven and Earth, journeys into the underworld to Ereshkigal, her dark “sister,” and returns. So modern women must descend from their old role-determined behavior into the depths of their instinct and image patterns, to find anew the Great Goddess and restore her values to modern culture.’ (from rear wrap)