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Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America - Baba Yaga, Kali, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America - Baba Yaga, Kali, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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In this provocative book, Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines
untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant
geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly
similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and
structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These
strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the
periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality,
transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of
the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and
continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kali, the Brazilian
Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities
have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and
dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they
empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality
of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these
sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and
place.
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