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Informationen zum Autor Helen Benigni graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1989. She is a professor at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, where she teaches comparative mythology, composition, and literature. Her other works include The Myth of the Year: Returning to the Origin of the Druid Calendar (2003) and The Goddess and the Bull: A Study in Minoan-Mycenaean Mythology (2007). Klappentext 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. This book reveals the archetype of a goddess associated with the planet Venus who is identified with transformation, spiritual resurrection, and enlightenment. Zusammenfassung 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. This book reveals the archetype of a goddess associated with the planet Venus who is identified with transformation! spiritual resurrection! and enlightenment. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordMorgan Llywelyn PrefaceHelen BenigniAcknowledgements 1. The Emergence of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era Helen Benigni2. The Epiphany of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the Bronze and Iron AgeHelen Benigni3. Love Goddesses of the Early Historic AgeMiriam Robbins Dexter4. Venus, The Caillichín na Mochóirighe of Newgrange, IrelandAnthony Murphy Appendix I: The Astronomy of the Nights of VenusBarbara CarterAppendix II: The Eight Year Cycle of VenusBarbara CarterAppendix III: Of K'uk'ulcán and Quetazlcóatl, Venus in MesoamericaR.P. HaleIndex PlatesAbout the Authors
List of contents
Foreword
Morgan Llywelyn
Preface
Helen Benigni
Acknowledgements
1. The Emergence of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era
Helen Benigni
2. The Epiphany of the Goddess: A Study of Venus in the Bronze and Iron Age
Helen Benigni
3. Love Goddesses of the Early Historic Age
Miriam Robbins Dexter
4. Venus, The Caillichín na Mochóirighe of Newgrange, Ireland
Anthony Murphy
Appendix I: The Astronomy of the Nights of Venus
Barbara Carter
Appendix II: The Eight Year Cycle of Venus
Barbara Carter
Appendix III: Of K'uk'ulcán and Quetazlcóatl, Venus in Mesoamerica
R.P. Hale
Index
Plates
About the Authors
