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Author Allen, Paula Gunn.

Title Grandmothers of the light : a medicine woman's sourcebook / Paula Gunn Allen.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  398.2 ALLEN, PAULA GUNN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  398.2 A    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  398.2 AL54    DUE 03-14-24 Billed
Description xvii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246).
Contents The living reality of the medicine world -- Cosmogyny: the Goddess -- Ritual magic and aspects of the Goddesses -- Myth, magic, and medicine in the modern world
Summary In this collection of goddess stories gleaned from the vast oral tradition of Native America, the author evokes a world of personal freedom and communal harmony, of free communication among people, animals, and spirits, of magic and its discipline, of balance between the sacred and the mundane.--From publisher description.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Folklore.
Subject Indians of North America -- Folklore.
Medicine, Traditional.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Religion.
Subject Mythology.
Women.
Religion.
Indians, North American.
Indigenous women -- North America.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, North American.
Subject Goddess religion -- North America.
ISBN 0807081027: $19.95
9780807081020
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