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The Goddess Dictionary
of Words & Phrases
Introducing a New Core Vocabulary
for the Women's Spirituality Movement
by
Lochlainn Seabrook
Copyright
©
1999 Lochlainn Seabrook
Cover - click to enlarge
BOOK REVIEW
The Goddess Dictionary of Words and Phrases is
an educational compendium of vital information regarding the universal
deity known around the world for thousands of years as "Goddess."
The book focuses specifically on various androcentric or patriarchal
terms, expressions, and maxims, from ancient to modern times.
The author, L. Seabrook, has taken these
and feminized (or emasculated) them, a process that has created a new core
vocabulary of feministic Goddess-oriented words and phrases.
Interestingly, many of Seabrook's
linguistic inventions are what could rightfully be called "new old" words
and phrases. That is, he has taken the God-based wording of our
modern male-dominant vocabulary and simply returned it to its original
prehistoric feminine form.
An example: he has taken the
contemporary androcentric saying, "in the name of God," and changed it to,
"in the name of Goddess." As we now know, the latter female form was
already in use for thousands of years before the belief in a Father-God
arose. After the Patriarchal Takeover (which began c. 4300 BCE),
however, misogynistic priests masculinized the phrase and suppressed the
original feminine version.
Seabrook's book allows these ancient
silenced expressions - dedicated to the Great Mother - to be brought back
to life.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
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Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
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Publication type: nonfiction book
♦ ISBN: 097687072X
♦ Copyright: 1999
♦ Pages:
127
♦ Illustrated:
no
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Printing: double-sided
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Cover: paperback (soft)
♦ Binding:
tape (professionally glued with linen-cloth spine)
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Publisher: self-published, Sea Raven Press
♦ Size:
8.5" x 11"
♦ Categories & Keywords:
nonfiction, thealogy (study of feminine religion), goddess worship,
matriarchy, mother-goddess,
spirituality, language, matriarchal and patriarchal studies, Old Europe, cultural
anthropology, archaeology, onomastics, etymology, mythology, Scotland,
Ireland, England, Wales, Europe, dictionary, reference book.
♦
Price within USA: $19.95 (plus $2.95 for
shipping/handling)
♦ Price outside USA: $24.95
(plus $2.95 for shipping/handling)
♦
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