From the fertile earth mothers of the ancient world to the revival of interest in witchcraft, images and tales of the Female Divine have flourished and waned. The authors gather 75 of these tales in a introduction of this divine figure as she has emerged from prehistory to the present.

The authors gather some 75 of the most potent and meaningful tales of the Female Divine in an extraordinarily rich and readable introduction of this figure. Told as a biography, this work follows Goddess from her first Ice Age appearance to her re-emergence as a powerful force in the myths of modern religion and psychology. 18 illustrations.

"Rarely is the generative principle that Goddess represents addressed as comprehensively and with such enjoyable results. As traced by Leeming and Page, Goddess's protean variability raises many provocative questions as the tales--some of them literally hair-raising 'myth-teries- unfold."--Lewis R. Binford, author of Bones: Ancient Man and Modern Myths