Concept of the Goddess

Sandra Billington, Miranda Green

'An impressive and scholarly volume.' - Lynn Meskell, At the Edge'Very highly recommended.' - The Cauldron'... an outstanding source of information about goddesses not only of northern Europe, including Britain and Ireland, but also of Rome, the Caucasus and Japan.' - Wood and Water'Highly recommended [it] illuminate[s] a profound understanding of the goddess, heretofore largely neglected by scholars or else romanticized by popular books.' - Annabel Lee, Runa

• List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface: the life and work of Hilda Ellis Davidson, Introduction, 1 The concept of the Goddess, 2 The Celtic Goddess as healer, 3 Now you see her, now you don’t: some notes on the conception of female shape-shifters in Scandinavian traditions, 4 Freyja and Frigg, 5 Freyja—a goddess with many names, 6 Meg and her Daughters: some traces of goddess-beliefs in megalithic folklore?, 7 Milk and the Northern Goddess, 8 Coventina’s Well, 9 Nemesis and Bellona: a preliminary study of two neglected goddesses, 10 Fors Fortuna in Ancient Rome, 11 Transmutations of an Irish goddess, 12 Aspects of the earth-goddess in the traditions of the banshee in Ireland, 13 The Caucasian hunting-divinity, male and female: traces of the hunting-goddess in Ossetic folklore, 14 The Mistress of the Animals in Japan: Yamanokami, Index