Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Women's Sourcebook - Paula Gunn Allen

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Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Women's Sourcebook, Paula Gunn Allen, 1991, United States, NONFICTION

"Through her introductory essays to sections entitled "The Living Reality of the Medicine World," "Ritual Magic and Aspects of the Goddesses," and "Myth, Magic, and Medicine in the Modern World," Paula Gunn Allen dissects modern "monotheistic" English understandings of ancient New World goddess cultures. Each of these scholarly essays is followed by stories she learned from family and friends that show "how the disciplines of the medicine woman—including the way of the daughter, the way of the mother, and the way of the wise woman—are open to all women, and how the commitment to 'walk in a sacred manner' can yield increasing spiritual power throughout one's life."..."

(J.L., p. 271)