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dc.contributor.author | Lagana, Louis | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-16T13:28:43Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-16T13:28:43Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Laganà, L. (2009). The re-emergence of the great mother goddess. International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 3(3), 67-76. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 19446934 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/22669 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Today, great interest in the Ancient Goddess cult is still being revived. With the way the Goddess manifests herself as symbolizing an earthly and cosmic source to the universe, some women have found refuge in the symbolical image of the Mother Goddess. The impetus towards the Goddess movement came from an archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas. With the return of the Goddess, the new power of the feminine is being expressed in all areas of life. Other major women writers and exponents of the Goddess religion expressed the self-transformation and empowerment and various aspects of feminist social vision of women in their work. In this paper I will also focus on the archetypal image of the Great Mother Goddess which is expressed in rituals, art, mythology and dreams. In Jungian parlance the Mother Archetype resides in every human psyche and is a symbol of protection and fertility and regeneration. This concept also belongs to the field of comparative religion and embraces widely varying types of the mother-goddess. The discussion of ‘Feminist Archetypal Psychology’ shows that the Great Mother Goddess archetype is activated and is returning to consciousness. The Great Mother Goddess archetype was very important in the Western world from the dawn of prehistory throughout the pre-Indo-European time periods, as it still is in many traditional cultures today. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | International Journal of Arts & Sciences | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Archaeology -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Art -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Goddess religion -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Gimbutas, Marija, 1921-1994 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Feminist art criticism | en_GB |
dc.title | The re-emergence of the Great Mother Goddess | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
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dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | International Journal of Arts and Sciences | en_GB |
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