The rotting goddess
Subtitle: the origin of the witch in classical antiquity's demonization of fertility religion
By: Jacob Rabinowitz
Publisher: Autonomedia
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Hecate (Greek deity); Greece -- Religion; Mythology, Classical; Witchcraft -- History; Witches -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-153)
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Hekate. She is a tree of life : Hekate and the cosmic axis ; Queen of Heaven, queen of Hell : Hekate-Enodia ; Underneath the moon : Hekate and Luna ; A howling at the gate : Hekate veneration and the myth of the witch; title: pt. 2. The witch. Descent of the goddess : the morphology of the witch ; Nigra sum sed formosa : the witch as archetype; title: pt. 3. Conclusion; title: pt. 4 Appendices. Pirkei ovoth, or, Bottled spirits ; Into the cauldron : shamanism and the Roman witch literature