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1. Anthony Stevens, Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self (New York: Morrow,
   1982), pp. 1–5.


2. C. G. Jung, “The Concept of the Collective Unconscious” (1936), CW, vol. 9, part
   1 (1968), p. 44, and “Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious” (1954), CW. vol.
   9, part 1 (1968), pp. 3–4.


3. Hesiod, Theogony, in Hesiod, trans. Richard Lattimore (Ann Arbor, Mich.: The
   University of Michigan Press, 1959).


4. Marija Gimbutas, “Women and Culture in Goddess-Oriented Old Europe,” in
   The Politics of Women’s Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the
   Women’s Movement, ed. Charlene Spretnak (New York: Doubleday. 1982), pp.
   22–31.


5. Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, vol. 1 (New York: Penguin, 1982), p. 13.


6. Jane Ellen Harrison, Mythology (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963
   [originally published 1924]), p. 49.


7. Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman (New York: Harvest/Harcourt Brace
   Jovanovich, by arrangement with the Dial Press, 1978), p. 228.

CHAPTER 2: ACTIVATING THE GODDESSES

1. C. G. Jung, “Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype” (1954), CW, vol. 9,
   part 1 (1968), p. 79.


2. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (New York: Vintage Books/Random
   House, 1977).


3. This shift in goddess archetypes during menstrual cycles is based on clinical ob-
   servations from my psychiatric practice. For research support documenting a
   shift from independent and active (or aggressive) to dependent and passive atti-
   tudes correlated with menstrual cycles, see Therese Benedek, “The Correlations
   Between Ovarian Activity and Psychodynamic Processes,” in Therese Benedek,
   ed., Psychoanalytic Investigation (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book
   Co., 1973), pp. 129–223.

CHAPTER 3: THE VIRGIN GODDESSES

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