Mythology of Venus
Subtitle: ancient calendars and archaeoastronomy
By: edited by Helen Benigni ; foreword by Morgan Llywelyn
Publisher: University Press Of America
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780761860624
Subjects: Mythology
Description: The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons, and myths identified with the planet Venus.
Table of contents: title: The emergence of the goddess: a study of Venus in the Paleolithic and Neolithic era  -- Helen Benigni; title: The epiphany of the goddess: a study of Venus in the Bronze and Iron Age  -- Helen Benigni; title: Love Goddesses of the early historic age  -- Miriam Robbins Dexter; title: Venus, the Caillichín na Mochóirighe of Newgrange, Ireland  -- Anthony Murphy; title: Appendix I: the astronomy of the nights of Venus  -- Barbara Carter; title: Appendix II: the eight year cycle of Venus  -- Barbara Carter; title: Appendix III: Of K'uk'ulcán and Quetzalcóatl: Venus in Mesoamerica -- R. P. Hale.