Goddesses in Everywoman

Contents

Epigraph iii

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword by Gloria Steinem xi

Introduction to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition xv

Introduction There Are Goddesses in Everywoman 1

1. Goddesses as Inner Images 13

2. Activating the Goddesses 25

3. The Virgin Goddesses: Artemis, Athena, and Hestia 35

46

4. Artemis: Goddess of the Hunt and Moon, Competitor

and Sister

75

5. Athena: Goddess of Wisdom and Crafts, Strategist and

Father’s Daughter

107

6. Hestia: Goddess of the Hearth and Temple, Wise Woman

and Maiden Aunt

132

7. The Vulnerable Goddesses: Hera, Demeter, and

Persephone

139

8. Hera: Goddess of Marriage, Commitment Maker and

Wife

9. Demeter: Goddess of Grain, Nurturer and Mother 168

197

10. Persephone: The Maiden and Queen of the Underworld,

Receptive Woman and Mother’s Daughter

11. The Alchemical Goddess 224