Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine Audiobook (Free)

Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that may also be scholarly classics.

While Campbell’s function reached wide and deep as he covered the globe’s great mythological traditions, he under no circumstances wrote a reserve on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have very much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, discovering the about Goddesses: Mysteries from the Female Divine figures, functions, symbols, and styles of the female divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs.

In this provocative volume, editor Safron Rossi—a goddess research scholar, teacher of mythology, and curator of collections at Opus Archives, which holds the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library—collects these lectures for the very first time. In them, Campbell traces the evolution of the feminine divine in one Great Goddess to numerous, from Neolithic Aged Europe towards the Renaissance. He sheds brand-new light on classical motifs and reveals how the womanly divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of transformation, initiation, and motivation.