Goddesses: mysteries of the feminine divine

On the great goddess

Myth and the feminine divine

The goddess in Paleolithic cultures

The goddess as nature

Goddess-mother creator: Neolithic and early Bronze age

Stone to copper: Anatolia and old Europe

Copper to bronze: Crete

Indo-European influx

Spears and languages

Burial mounds and suttee

Mycenae

Sumerian and Egyptian goddesses

The abstract field: rise of civilization

The Semitic influx: Sargon and Hammurabi

Egypt

Myth of Isis and Osiris

Goddesses and gods of the Greek pantheon

Artemis

Apollo

Dionysus

Zeus

Ares

Athena

Iliad and Odyssey: return to the goddess

The judgment of Paris

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Mysteries of transformation

The once and future goddess

Mystery cults

The abduction of Persephone

Dionysus and the feminine divine

Amor: the feminine in European romance

Virgin Mary

The court of love

The renaissance of the goddess

Lift-off

Appendix: foreword to Marija Gimbutas' the Language of the Goddess

Goddess studies: essential reading.