books about: priestess     books:       Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece5 reviews Joan Breton Connelly Princeton University Press, 2007 Portrait of a Priestess, scholarly merits and popular appeal Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece is a book I'd recommend to scholars. It is well researched and well composed. However, the topic is also of interest to those who enjoy exploring the ancient world and a woman's place in it. Women's lives in this historical period are difficult to access but Connelly has done so in a way that is both useful to those who work in the ...             The Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine5 reviews Sharron Rose Inner Traditions, 2003 Mind Expanding and Boundless! What a beautiful and eye opening homage to womankind from a spiritual seeker who has traveled such a great distance from her beginnings as an American feminist of the sixties. In the first chapter she describes her powerful initiation by a woman teacher ( Sitara Devi) into the ancient art of Indian temple dance, Hindu Tantra and women's mysteries. . ( I was pleased to see the photographs of ...             Sarah The Priestess: The First Matriarch Of Genesis5 reviews Savina Teubal Swallow Press, 1984 The Importance of Sarah This is one of the most signifigant books I have ever read. For years I have been buying it by the dozen to give away to women who I thought would also find it important. In this book, Teubal looks at the Book of Genesis starting from the point that Abraham and Sarah are a nice Mesopotanian couple in which Sarah is a priestess of a particular order that permits its priestess's to marry but ...             Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the Goddess: A Renewed Spiritual Path for the 21st Century : A Journey of ...3 reviews Kathy Jones Green Magic, 2007 The Real Thing I challenge anyone to read *Priestess of Avalon* and not dance away knowing that Kathy Jones is the real thing. The intricate, complex web of the*a*logy she describes in the book is something she and others in Glastonbury, UK, have obviously experienced directly. No one could just have imagined this elaborate and satisfying system; it had to grow out of direct experience. You can't just make ...             Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Updated and Expanded Edition (Comparative Studies in Religion and ...18 reviews Karen McCarthy Brown University of California Press, 2001 A brilliant and compelling account of "walkers between the worlds" Walking between the worlds Karen McCarthy Brown has penned a masterpiece! Mama Lola, known to family and friends as Alourdes, is a Mambo, an initiated priestess of Voudou who earns a modest living by serving her immigrant countrymen in America as a traditional healer and by conducting Haitian Voudou rites in her Brooklyn home. In 1978, Brown, then a professor of religion at New Jersey's Drew ...             Priestess Of Avalon64 reviews Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson Roc Trade, 2002 Rich Story Priestess of Avalon is a rich story of color, flavor, and texture. The details given make it so I felt that I had seen and heard as the main character did. The story is told in first person--a change from the rest of the books in The Mists series--that I find effective, and somewhat more insightful. I could almost feel myself age with her, as she was a girl in the beginning, growing through her ...             Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey8 reviews Ellen Evert Hopman Llewellyn Publications, 2008 A Joy To Read! I have always love Ellen's work, but this is the first I have read of her "fiction" style. All I can say is I hope there is another book to follow this one!! This book incorporates information from various accurately researched Celtic sources, yet does not make them out to be something other than what we do know about them. I mean she doesn't imply it has a special hidden usage, so therefore ...             American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem14 reviews Jane Fletcher Geniesse Nan A. Talese, 2008 Amazing What One Learns About By Reading Here is an extraordinary story about an international group of people who immigrated to Jerusalem to await the Second Coming led by Anna and Horatio Spafford beginning in 1881. The American Colony as they were known settled in a compound situated in the Old City in the Arab Quarter between the Damascus Gate and Herod's Gate. Jane Geniesse writes with fairness about the leader, charismatic Anna ...             The Sea Priestess11 reviews Dion Fortune Weiser Books, 2003 The Sea Priestess is You As an astrologer, professional metaphysician, expert Tarot symbolist and VisionCoach, I am somewhat embarrassed at how adamantly I recommend this rare jewel of a book to my clients. Unassuming in its title, it carefully hides in the traditional esoteric manner, some of the greatest wisdom you will ever encounter on the subject of what it means to really be a woman. When I hear enthusiastic ...             Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women1 review Susan Starr Sered Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Excellent Resource I've found this text to be a very important resource in my religious studies career. As a graduate student interested in the role of women in traditional and nontraditional worship communities, I have found few texts that provide such a comprehensive and well written analysis of the roles of women and the ways they use power.             The Vanished Priestess (Annie Szabo Mysteries)4 reviews Meredith Blevins Forge Books, 2005 Annie's Back! Funny how book people can come to occupy a place like real friends. I fell in love with the Szabos in The Hummingbird Wizard, and it was so good to see them again. The circus thread introduced in the previous book is played up here, with more Gypsy magic and kick-ass multi-generational girl power. It's a lovely romp that dovetails nicely with the first novel. My only regret was that Margo ...             Spirits of the Sacred Grove: The World of a Druid Priestess13 reviews Emma Orr Thorsons, 1998 Reality of the Shamanic/Druidic experience Thank Goodness this isn't another "how-to" roast apples at Samhain or "how to" read a ritual poem straight from the book--there are countless examples of those. Instead, this is written straight from the experience of a Druid master...several days or events in her life, and does not tell the reader what to think or how to be. Discovering how Emma sees and connects with the world is moving, real ...             PRIESTESS: THE LIFE AND MAGIC OF DION FORTUNE ALAN RICHARDSON Thoth Publications, 2007 In the meantime I had my dream of moon-magic and sea-palaces and day by day I lived more in another dimension where I had that which, I knew I should never have on earth, and I was very happy. Dion Fortune was the pen-name of Violet Firth, one of the most luminous and striking personalities of the twentieth century, Womanhood's answer to Aleister Crowley, and quite possibly the Shakti of the Age. This new, revised, expanded and ...             Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism14 reviews Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke NYU Press, 2000 An unecessary book, but great if you're really into the subject Since this book has been well reviewed by others, I'll refrain from writing much about the content of the book. I've started to notice a tendency from the author to repeat himself a LOT in his books. Large parts of the various chapters are word for word taken from other places. My point is that if you buy the "Black Sun" book by the same author, you'll get everything about Devi you need to know ...             The Wiccan Minister's Manual, A Guide for Priests and Priestesses3 reviews Kevin M. Gardner AuthorHouse, 2008 A must have for all Pagan Clergy What a great book. I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time. A must have for all Pagan Clergy.             The Full Mood: A Priestess Tale Penny Augustin iUniverse, Inc., 2003 A tale of loss, love, discovery and healing is interwoven between two women from two very different lifetimes. Namu lives in England in the 800s A.D. She struggles to stay true to her priestess ways while living in an era that forbids her to openly do so. Rose lives in modern day Wisconsin. Her challenge is to find, or one might say remember, the gifts she has to offer. Have times really changed? Namu and Rose each have an openness to all forms ...             Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses, and Power: Case Studies in African Gender (Annals of the New York Academy ... New York Academy of Sciences, 1997             Priestess (Nexus Series) Jacqueline Bellevois Virgin Nexus, 2004 Gullible young solicitor Adam finds himself attracted to Megan, his beautiful fellow employee, and dominated by worldly-wise workmate Donna. The owner of a slinky, City-based fetish club finds she is being defrauded by a mysterious regular, known as The Priestess. Submitting their own sexual tensions to the rules of the club, and discovering its association with a bizarre 'sanatorium', the trio discover that their lives will never be the same ...             Blind Eye (High Priestess Iliona Mysteries)1 review Marilyn Todd Severn House Publishers, 2008 A New Series Marilyn Todd was born in Harrow, Middlesex, but now lives in West Sussex with her husband, one dog and two cats. For the last ten years she has run her own secretarial business from home. It seems a long time since Marilyn Todd's previous book Scorpion Rising was published but is in fact just over a year. That book of course featured the character Claudia. this is a completely new venture for the ...             Priestess of the White (Age of the Five Trilogy, Book 1)27 reviews Trudi Canavan Eos, 2006 Very Good I frequently browse books on Amazon and add to my wish list ones that I think could be good, mostly based on their title and cover. Later I go back and sort through these after reading their descriptions and reviews. This was one of those books, and while it waited on my wish list, I ended up receiving it as a gift. 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