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Explores the mythology of goddesses of different cultures from around the world, and details the aspects of life that they represent, including creation, birth and motherhood, and death and the afterlife. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a map, a glossary, and additional resources.
3) Maat
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Explores the story of Maat, the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice, and order, and describes how and why the ancient Egyptians worshipped her. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, and additional resources.
4) Hathor
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Explores the story of Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of women, motherhood, and love, and describes how and why the ancient Egyptians worshipped her. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, and additional resources.
5) Isis
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Explores the story of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of healing, fertility, motherhood, death, and rebirth, and describes how and why ancient Egyptians worshipped her. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, and additional resources.
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"The World Will Burn. Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever--but he did. A fight for humanity and battles between gods, it's a world Persephone never thought she would see. To end the chaos, she must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she's become--Goddess, Wife, Queen of the Underworld. Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves, now she will...
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"From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals,...
10) River Mumma
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When the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, tells her she has 24 hours to find her missing comb, Alicia, forming a strange connection with her two co-workers who help her fight off malevolent spirits, is led on a journey through time to discover herself and what the river carries.
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"Their love transcends every boundary. Can it cheat death? Orphia dreams of something more than the warrior crafts she's been forced to learn. Hidden away on a far-flung island, her blood sings with poetry and her words can move flowers to bloom and forests to grow ... but her father, the sun god Apollo, has forbidden her this art. A chance meeting with a young shield-maker, Eurydicius, gives her the courage to use her voice. After wielding all her...