TY - BOOK ID - 77903369 TI - Women, myth, and the feminine principle PY - 1998 SN - 0585057583 9780585057583 079143527X 0791435288 1438409389 9781438409382 PB - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Women and religion. KW - Women in literature. KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Religion and women KW - Women in religion KW - Religion KW - Sexism in religion KW - Women (in religion, folklore, etc.) KW - Mythology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77903369 AB - "The book begins by probing the "Divine Feminine" in Tibet's Gesar of Ling, one of the most fascinating myths of all time. Especially intriguing is the hero's seemingly continuous dependency on the feminine principle for guidance. The heroine in Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama, Sakuntala focuses on the obstacles set in Sakuntala's earthly trajectory, and how these were instrumental in her evolution from the stage of passive, unconscious, and withdrawn archetypal Maiden to that of the conscious, decisive, strong spiritual Mother. To explore the highly complex personalities of Kriemhild and Brunhild in the High German Nibelungenlied is to enter the realm of sun and shadow, the lightened regions of consciousness and the deep interiors of primal darkness. Quiche Mayas's Popul Vuh introduces a primordial couple as active participants in the creation of humankind while Racine's Phaedra projects the dramatist's own gnawing religious conflicts onto his mythical heroine: questions of guilt, remorse, anguish, and fatality/predestination. Yeats's Irish/Celtic feminist and heroine, Deirdre, underscores her inner strength, fortitude, and courage in the face of death while I.B. Singer's "Yentl the Yeshivah Boy" depicts the struggle confronting a young girl from an orthodox Polish Jewish family as she attempts to break out of an ultrapatriarchal society."--Jacket. ER -