• The Hebrew Goddess is a 1967 book by Jewish historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, in which the author argues that historically, the Jewish religion...
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  • The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth is a book-length essay on the nature of poetic myth-making by the English writer Robert Graves....
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    mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological...
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    Asherah (category Deities in the Hebrew Bible)
    Arad, the famous archaeological site with cannabanoids and massebot. Dever notes: "The only goddess whose name is well attested in the Hebrew Bible (or...
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    meaning) of Late Latin succuba Patai, Raphael (1990) [1967]. "Lilith". The Hebrew Goddess. Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology (3rd Enlarged ed...
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    The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-77261-6 "Incubus". Reference.com. Retrieved September 26, 2014. Raphael Patai, p. 221, The Hebrew Goddess:...
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    Sky deity (redirect from Goddess of the sky)
    Josiah who removed the statue of Asherah from the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem. See also The Hebrew Goddess. Vanoverbergh, M. (1941). The Isneg Farmer. Catholic...
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    (and God's) displeasure at this behaviour to the Hebrew people about the worship of the goddess in the Old Testament. Lilith is banished from Adam and...
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    Asherah pole (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    hypothesis unlikely. Raphael Patai identified the pillar figurines with Asherah in The Hebrew Goddess. So far, the purpose of Asherah poles are unknown. Due...
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  • Semitic neopaganism (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    popularized in the United States during the 1960s by Raphael Patai in The Hebrew Goddess, focusing on the cult of female goddesses such as the cult of Asherah...
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  • Shekhinah (category CS1 Hebrew-language sources (he))
    Shekhinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה‎, Modern: Šəḵīna, Tiberian: Šeḵīnā) is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes...
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  • Naamah (demon) (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    The Hebrew Goddess. Wayne State University Press. Zohar 3:76b-77a Zohar: Genesis: Chapter XXXII From Book Nine, Myths of Exile Julia Cresswell, The Watkins...
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    swear by the name of the one who brought this gift to humanity. In the work by anthropologist Raphael Patai entitled The Hebrew Goddess, the author argues...
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  • Angels, 2nd edition Raphael Patai (1990). The Hebrew Goddess. Wayne State University Press. Geoffrey W. Dennis, The encyclopedia of Jewish myth, magic and...
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    Lilith (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    or Hebrew mother goddess of childbirth, children, women, and sexuality. Raymond Buckland holds that Lilith is a dark moon goddess on par with the Hindu...
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    The Goddess movement is a revivalistic Neopagan religious movement which includes spiritual beliefs and practices that emerged primarily in the United...
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  • Raphael Patai, p. 221, The Hebrew Goddess: Third Enlarged Edition, ISBN 978-0-8143-2271-0 George, A. The epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian epic poem and...
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  • Queen of Heaven (antiquity) (category Deities in the Hebrew Bible)
    Mesopotamian texts. Another transliteration is ‘Ashtart; other names for the goddess include Hebrew עשתרת (transliterated Ashtoreth), Ugaritic ‘ṯtrt (also ‘Aṯtart...
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    Binah (Kabbalah) (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    Texts like The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai explore these themes in depth. In creative endeavors, Binah plays a crucial role as the sephirah that...
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    Bastet (redirect from Bastet (goddess))
    as Ubasti, or Bubastis, is a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion possibly of Nubian origin, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BC). In ancient...
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    Anthropologist and Biblical scholar Raphael Patai writes in The Hebrew Goddess that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from...
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  • Baphomet—worshipped by the Templars as symbolic of Satan Bast—Egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat Beelzebub—(Hebrew) Lord of the Flies, taken from...
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  • Gender of God (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    Krishna Sky father The Hebrew Goddess Feminism Thealogy "The fact that we always refer to God as 'He' is also not meant to imply that the concept of sex or...
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  • The Triple Goddess is a deity or deity archetype revered in many Neopagan religious and spiritual traditions. In common Neopagan usage, the Triple Goddess...
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  • ISBN 978-9053565032. OCLC 33819403. Patai, Raphael (1990) [1967]. "Lilith". The Hebrew Goddess. Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology (3rd Enlarged ed...
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    animals. Asase Yaa, Mother of the Dead and the goddess of the harsh earth and truth Asase Afua, the goddess of the lush earth, fertility, love, procreation...
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  • Raphael Patai (1990). The Hebrew Goddess. Wayne State University Press. Schwartz, H. (Ed.). (1991). Lilith's Cave: Jewish tales of the supernatural. Oxford...
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    Canaanite religion (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    pole in the Hebrew Bible. Ashima, goddess of fate Astarte, goddess of war, hunting and love. Atargatis, wife of Hadad, goddess of fertility and the chief...
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    Astartē) is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar...
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  • Raphael Patai (category Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    (with Emanuel S. Goldsmith) The Hebrew Goddess (3rd enl. ed.). Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. 1990. The Myth of the Jewish Race (Rev. ed.)....
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