Goddesses

Mysteries of the Feminine Devine (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

By: Joseph Campbell, Safron Elsabeth Rossi - editor

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's Summary

Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics. 

While Campbell’s work reached wide and deep as he covered the world’s great mythological traditions, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, exploring the figures, functions, symbols, and themes of the feminine divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs. 

In this provocative volume, editor Safron Rossi - a goddess studies scholar, professor of mythology, and curator of collections at Opus Archives, which holds the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library - collects these lectures for the first time. In them, Campbell traces the evolution of the feminine divine from one Great Goddess to many, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance. He sheds new light on classical motifs and reveals how the feminine divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of transformation, initiation, and inspiration.

©2013 Joseph Campbell Foundation (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Can't Get Enough

I started reading Joseph Campbell 1986. And I've never been able to get enough of him I read is first works was 8 years old and he's a Guiding Light to a very messy world. I really hope that the foundation continues to release collections from his work and lectures.

wonderful collection of informtion...such a gem .

"a masterful presentation of such extraordinary in formation..why couldnt i understand this when i was young

Lovelly

This book is great and the narrator is good and easy to follow. I recommend.

Decent Lecture Assembly

Inspired by Joseph Campbell’s great Power of Myth series, I selected this audiobook to fill in that series’ gaps. It’s good but could have been better since it was assembled after his death under a goddess theme. Some lectures only include goddesses as accompanying characters, likely due to an effort to reach a time length. If you have a spare credit, you can’t go too wrong here but it will leave you slightly disappointed.

Incredible book

I am amazed with the amount of pertinent information contained, the intelligible way of exposing it and the inspiration brought by it. I will buy it to keep it also..

Brilliant!

Campbell is a genius of 20th century in field of mythology religion and psyche. It is a must read or listen for anyone who wants to know his or hers religion deeper or gain an understanding how we lead the world to the state it is in now.

A learning experience

Pan cultural examination of common thoughts as they followed the arrow of time to our views on the fem.

I will keep this in my library. This was good info

I will keep this in my library. This was good information and great readers...they make all the difference in a audiobook.

exceptional overview of the influence of goddesses

loved chapters 7 and 8 as it showed the influence in today's western culture and what we fail to see.

No speculation here

I am assuming these lectures are for the lay person, who can't handle "seems similar to" "might have come from" or "partially resembles". Instead we have A=B, C is same as D; consequently A is foundational for F and G; just ignore E. I especially like the number 9 - when 9 is deeply understood, we can see the feminine as the organizing divinity.

Amusing, inspiring and enlightening

This book is a must read after Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a thousand faces. To the hero journey, it adds the goddess's journey through history. It's really enlightening about the place woman had in cultures and mythologies, and how the balance of "Androgyny" has been.

Amazing book

Loved it, I found it easy to read, extremely informative and inspiring book on the Goddess

Boom Boom

Thoroughly Enjoyed every chapter many Booms undeniable history, insight, & clarifications. loved chapter 9. stories of focus & references to the Odyseey & Dante's inferno which i'm lookin 4 now. Joseph Campbell is truly a Master sent from on high to us clearing the way.