The Storyteller's Goddess: Tales of the Goddess and Her Wisdom from Around the World

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
• Published by: Da Capo Press
• Edition: 2nd Edition March 17, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1569246483
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1569246481
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 14.2 ounces

Product Review
"A wonderful reading experience. The language is clear, respectful, and inviting" -- Luisah Teish, author of Jambalaya

"Carolyn Edwards provides new myths for a new age of goddess retellings." -- Caitlin Matthews, author of Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom

"These stories grow from the Earth. Gorgeous bloom from our living flesh." -- Barbara Mor, coauthor of The Great Cosmic Mother

This is the only book of fairytales that my daughter will actually stay awake to listen to -- Howard Reingold, Whole Earth Review

Product Description
The Storyteller's Goddess is a collection of more than thirty stories from twenty cultures that celebrate the goddess. They are organized around seven healing goddess principles and are inspired by traditional goddess lore and ancient artifacts. Each one is introduced by placing it in its cultural and historical context, telling the story's origins, and describing props that can be used to invoke that story's goddess--from Kali and Hecate to Shekina, Kuan Yin, Athena, Mary, and Lilith.

Reader Reviews
The many aspects and legends of the Goddess are beautifully, and imaginatively retold by Carolyn McVickar Edwards. She provides readers with 39 Goddess stories from 27 different cultures. She arranges these stories into seven categories, such as, All in All: Healing the split (the Goddess as both light and dark -- which includes Goddesses such as, Pele, Ereshkigal, and Hecate), or, Spirit Incarnate: Goddess as Earth and Body (including Goddesses such as, Freya, Kuan Yin, and Sedna). The author has added six new stories in this second edition as well as reworked many of her original ones. Edwards took some of the stories straight from Merlin Stone's book, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood. Others, she puts a more modern spin on. Some she created from bits and pieces of information, concepts and images. The book is feminocentric, but not exclusionary towards men. It's lessons (such as religious tolerance, equality, ecology) are imparted in a sensitive, not preachy manner. The stories are beautiful to read both aloud or quietly. Many, but not all, are appropriate to read to children. All can be use in group discussions, or for ritual celebrations. If you are involved in Goddess spirituality, are a storyteller seeking good material, or are just interested in exploring Goddess lore, you'll find this book to be pure enchantment.