More About Goddesses (Vol. 1)

By Tim Kavi

Essays about Goddesses from various spiritual traditions, More About Goddesses will give you the basics about Goddesses drawn from mythology, history, and the discipline of religious studies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TiLu Press
• Release date: Apr 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311479709

Tim Kavi

Tim Kavi is a writer, poet, and teacher. His poetry is most well known for collections that emphasize the Goddess, the Divine Feminine, mysticism, and philosophical themes associated with freedom, dialogue, and dualism/monism. He has published three prior collections: Emerging Goddess (2011), Ascending Goddess (2012), and Lost Love Poems (2012). He has also published an anthology of essays (2013). Forthcoming collections include Poems of Protest, Revealed Goddess, and City of Night-City of Light. Tim is published exclusively by TiLu Press.

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More About Goddesses (Volume One)

Tim Kavi

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Amaterasu: Shinto Goddess

Aphrodite (Venus), The Goddess of Love and Beauty

Aphrodite and the Story of Eros and Psyche

Artemis, Greek Goddess of the Hunt

Asherah, Ancient Mother Goddess

Athena, Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War

Athena: Queen of the Air and Breath of Inspiration

Bast, the Egyptian Goddess (Bastet)

Circe

Hera, the Greek Goddess of Marriage and Childbirth

Isis, the Egyptian Mother Goddess of Protection

Kali, Hindu Fierce Mother Goddess

Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion

Lakshmi, Hindu Goddess and Her Puja

Ma Durga, Hindu Goddess as Mahadevi

Ma Durga, My Encounter with the Benevolent Mother

Parvati, Hindu Goddess of Love and Devotion

Persephone, Greek Goddess of the Underworld

Saraswati, the Artistic Hindu Goddess

A Few Goddess Poems by Tim Kavi

About the Author

*Introduction*

I've been sharing my poetry on the internet since about 2005, first at an online community called MySpace, and then later migrating my poetry and essay writing over to my official writing page/blog. That site (linked at the end of this book in the About Author section) is where I write and share at least some of my current poetry, essays, publication news, and writing rants and raves from time to time.

From the beginning I was encouraged to get published by my readers and this was realized in 2011 with my first collection, Emerging Goddess, it was followed by Ascending Goddess (2012) and Lost Love Poems (2013). Also in 2013, I had an essay published about Walt Whitman. These were all published as eBooks, but are widely available all over the web in many different formats. Also, they will be published in print beginning in early 2014.

Now over time and in particular the last two and a half years, I have regularly posted columns on my blog that features additional information and facts about goddesses. These columns are simply called More About Goddesses. The columns are meant to tie into my poetry which also mentions goddess motifs and themes. What was unexpected, by both myself and my publisher was how popular these columns would become with internet searchers and my readers.

In fact, not only were some of the columns being read hundreds of times in a short period of time after posting, some of the columns have been read thousands of times. In fact, the opening column in this eBook, as of the present time (July 2013), has been viewed