Grandmothers of the light
Subtitle: a medicine woman's sourcebook
By: Paula Gunn Allen.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Indian women -- North America.; Indians of North America -- Religion.; Indians of North America -- Folklore.; Goddess religion -- North America.
Description: In this collection of goddess stories gleaned from the vast oral tradition of Native America, the author evokes a world of personal freedom and communal harmony, of free communication among people, animals, and spirits, of magic and its discipline, of balance between the sacred and the mundane.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-246).
Table of contents: title: The living reality of the medicine world -- Cosmogyny : the goddesses. A new wrinkle -- Out of the blue -- This was not Eden -- Grandmother of the light -- Be that way then -- River, blood, and corn -- Making sacred, making true -- Strange burning -- The day the end began -- Ritual magic and aspects of the goddesses. There in the northwest -- A hot time -- Sacred shoes -- What is wakan -- May it be beautiful all around -- The adventurers -- Transformation time -- Myth, magic, and medicine in the modern world. Roses, roses -- A fish of another hue -- The hunter -- Deer woman -- Someday soon -- Postscript. Cultural dimensions, ge-ological locations, and herstorical circumstances of the goddesses, the people, and the ritual tradition -- Glossary.