Tim Ward


Table of Contents

Introduction: Why would a Guy search for the Goddess?
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Chapter 1: Mother Earth: The Voice of Gaia
“Oh my god, I’ve married my mother!”
Delphi

Chapter 2: Ariadne and the Minotaur
Lady with an Axe
Crete

Chapter 3: Demeter, Persephone, and the Mother/Daughter Cult
Reliving the Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusis and Malta

Chapter 4: Hera, the Bitter Queen
The sacred marriage, and other blood sports
Olympia, Greece

Chapter 5: Goddess in a Business Suit: Athena Resurrected
“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”
Athens, Greece

Chapter 6: The Rotting Goddess: Hekate
Burn the witch! Face to face with my fear of the feminine.
Turkey

Chapter 7: The Cult of Abundance: Artemis of Ephesus
The savage breast we hate to love
Ephesus, Turkey
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Chapter 8: Mary: Goddess Incognito
Curse of the Virgin
Lourdes, Jerusalem, and Mount Athos

Chapter 9: Hestia and the Forgotten Goddesses of Old Europe
Excavating my own soul
Romania and Bulgaria

Chapter 10: Masked Goddesses of the Vinca
A mirror behind the mask
Serbia and Romania

Chapter 11: Prehistoric Pandoras
Lust and the maiden
Ukraine and Romania

Chapter 12: Sex and Love on Aphrodite's Island
Yoke of our desire
Cyprus

Chapter 13: The Unknown Goddess
Blindsided by the obvious. My specialty
Santorini and the Cycladic Isles

Epilogue
A snake, a dove and a Voodoo Queen
New Orleans

The Goddess as Archetype and Anima

The Cosmic Goddess

The Goddess and Moving Beyond Patriarchy