The Great Cosmic Mother vs The white goddess: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Great Cosmic Mother The Great Cosmic Mother Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor · 1987 ★★★★☆ 3.8 501 pages · ≈ 9 h 17 m · Moderate
“Apollo, the patriarchal Sun God of classic Greece, was a mythological · latecomer to the oracular shrine at Delphi, though now he is always associated with it. Apollo began as an underground oracular hero, in fact, and his name means "apple-man." In classic myth, he could not rule ar Delphi until he had slain the sacred python with his arrows (or phallic sunbeams), as Zeus had also killed the”

This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity's heritage. Now, with a new…

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Cover of The white goddess The white goddess Robert Graves · 1920 ★★★★☆ 4.0 511 pages · ≈ 9 h 28 m · Demanding

The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast…

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Goodreads — 4.0 (3662)
Hardcover 5.0 (1) 3.6 (9)
Apple Books — 4.5 (7)

Reception

The Great Cosmic MotherThe white goddess
Ratings 4 3662
Editions 6 47
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 12194
Reading it now — 570
Written reviews — 259
Wikipedia attention — 4327
Pages 501 511

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