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Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Volume 2
Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Volume 2 Paperback by Merlin Stone (Author)
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Published January 1, 1979
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Merlin Stone
40 books123 followersMerlin Stone is a sculptor and professor of art and art history, perhaps best-known for her feminist book, When God Was a Woman.
Biography
Merlin Stone became interested in archaeology and ancient religions from her study of ancient art. She taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1958 to 1967 she worked as a sculptor, exhibiting widely and executing numerous commissions. (According to the author's information on the 1976 Harcourt edition of When God Was a Woman).
She spent a decade on research before writing the book published in the UK as The Paradise Papers and then in the U.S. as When God Was a Woman (1976). It describes her theory of how the Hebrews suppressed allegedly goddess-based religions practiced in Canaan and how their reaction to what she asserts as being the existing matriarchial and matrilineal societal structures shaped Judaism and, thus, Christianity.
Her other major work, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood collects stories, myths, and prayers involving goddess-figures from a wide variety of world religions, ancient and otherwise. Stone's hypotheses are radical and challenging to the accepted views of antiquity, and as such they remain controversial. She is the author of numerous short stories, book reviews, and essays, including 3,000 Years of Racism.
She passed away on the 25th of February 2011 in Daytona Beach after a long painful illness.
Biography
Merlin Stone became interested in archaeology and ancient religions from her study of ancient art. She taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1958 to 1967 she worked as a sculptor, exhibiting widely and executing numerous commissions. (According to the author's information on the 1976 Harcourt edition of When God Was a Woman).
She spent a decade on research before writing the book published in the UK as The Paradise Papers and then in the U.S. as When God Was a Woman (1976). It describes her theory of how the Hebrews suppressed allegedly goddess-based religions practiced in Canaan and how their reaction to what she asserts as being the existing matriarchial and matrilineal societal structures shaped Judaism and, thus, Christianity.
Her other major work, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood collects stories, myths, and prayers involving goddess-figures from a wide variety of world religions, ancient and otherwise. Stone's hypotheses are radical and challenging to the accepted views of antiquity, and as such they remain controversial. She is the author of numerous short stories, book reviews, and essays, including 3,000 Years of Racism.
She passed away on the 25th of February 2011 in Daytona Beach after a long painful illness.
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February 6, 2018
I could never actually say that I finished volume 2 or 1 of Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, they are the work of the incredible scholarship and imagination of Merlin Stone. These two books together are a never-ending fountain of ideas, inspiration and unspoken knowledge for any writer, for any woman, for any human being. They are the forgotten stories of our modern minds that I suspect we still remember, although we may not recall. My copy of this book was hard to come by, so if you get the chance....
I have to add that I actually met Merlin Stone once. She graciously met me for lunch so that I could interview her for a Goddess radio series that I was producing at the time, (early nineties.) She explained to me that she had agoraphobia and rarely left her apartment anymore, which made me feel honored that she had done so to meet with me. And she brought me a gift! I still have it on my bookshelf, Plays By and About Women. She was encouraging, gracious, humble and kind, and a personal inspiration.
I have to add that I actually met Merlin Stone once. She graciously met me for lunch so that I could interview her for a Goddess radio series that I was producing at the time, (early nineties.) She explained to me that she had agoraphobia and rarely left her apartment anymore, which made me feel honored that she had done so to meet with me. And she brought me a gift! I still have it on my bookshelf, Plays By and About Women. She was encouraging, gracious, humble and kind, and a personal inspiration.
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