num_pages: 202
description: In this provocative book Magorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality outsiderhood and structural inferiority embodied in the divine feminine. These strong independent unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers including power over sexuality transformation and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and the Slavic Baba Yaga the Hindu Kl the Brazilian Pombagira and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal demonization and dulcification they continue to be extremely attractive as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.
language: English
title: Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Kālī, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan