510 i Index
goddesses, tree
on cylinder seals, 111– 114, 112f, 113f, 134n64
of Eg ypt, ancient, 114– 120, 116f– 120f
pomegranate, 118– 120
Uruk, on cylinder seals, 111– 114, 112f,
113 f, 134n64
goddesses, Uruk period, 102– 105, 111– 114
on cylinder seals, 111– 114, 112f, 113f, 134n64
Ezina- Kusu (goddess of grain), 104
Geshtinanna (goddess of grape vines), 105
“grain bin goddess,” Çatalhüyük, 59– 64,
60 f– 63f, 68nn63– 64
Inanna (“Lady of Vegetation”), 85, 88– 92,
89 f, 91f, 105– 111, 131n12
“Mother Goddess,” Haqar Qim, 78– 81, 80f
Nammu, 88, 102
Ninhursag (“Lady of the Foothills”), 102– 104
Ninkasi (goddess of beer- making), 105
Ninmu (goddess of plants), 102, 103f, 104
Ninnisaga (goddess of mountain
vegetation), 104
Ninshebargunu (goddess of barley), 105
Ninsikil, 102
Nintu (“Lady of Birth”), 104
Nissaba (goddess of writing), 105
other vegetation, Sumer and Akkad, 102– 111
Sud (goddess of clean, naked grains), 105
Uttu (spider goddess of weaving), 104
goddesses, vegetation. See also specific regions
and cultures
Canaanite, 122– 125, 125f
in Hebrew Bible, 125– 126
in monotheistic religions, persistence of,
122– 127, 125f
“goddesses- with- upraised arms,” Minoan
terracotta, 172, 180n64
gods, Egyptian male, plants and, 135n73
gods, Greek
Cronos, 184
genealog y of, 183– 185
Ouranos (Uranus, sky- god), 184
Zeus (sky- god), 184– 185, 185f, 186f
gods, Roman
Ares, 230
Jupiter, 230
Liber, 232
Mars, 230, 235– 236
gods, Uruk period
Enki (“Lord of the Earth”), 102– 104, 103f
Nippur (sky god), 88
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 439– 457
asexualists and, 19th c., 452– 455
Baroness Charlotte von Stein and,
441– 442, 443
“Blessed Longing,” 450
on death and pollination, 455– 457, 461n78
early career of, 439– 441
Götz von Berlichingen, 440
“Hegeira,” 450
on Holbach’s The System of Nature, 433– 434
Italienische Reise of, 443– 444
“The Marienbad Elegy,” 451
Maxims and Reflections, 449
on metamorphosis
old age and, 449– 452
plant sexuality and, 445– 448,
460– 461nn53– 54, 56
The Metamorphosis of Plants, 430, 431,
445– 458
“The Metamorphosis of Plants,” 448
Pollination, Volatilization, and
Exudation, 452
on premaxillary bone, 442– 443
Roman Elegies, 444
Schelver’s influence on, 430– 431
on sexual theory
acceptance of, 443
reservations on, early, 440– 441
The Sorrows of Young Werther, 440
Urpflanze, 444– 445, 460n51
Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu
erklären, 446
Weieberliebe (women- love) of, 441– 442
Zur Farbenlehre, 431
The Golden Ass (Apuleius), 238
Goodison, L., 155
Götz von Berlichingen (Goethe), 440
grafting
“gardener’s art” as, 361, 376n29
as intercourse, 299– 301, 319n31, 320n35
“grain bin goddess,” Çatalhüyük, 59– 64,
60 f– 63f, 68nn63– 64
grapes, wild, 92, 132n25
Graves, Robert, The White Goddess, 284n15
“Great Chain of Being” (S ca l a Na tu ra), 215,
217– 218, 220