The Rotting Goddess: The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity's Demonization of Fertility Religion

by Jacob Rabinowitz

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

133

Collection

Publication

Autonomedia (1998), Edition: 1St Edition, 154 pages

Description

Literary Nonfiction.

User reviews

LibraryThing member quantumbutterfly
An examination of material relating to the goddess Hekate, and chronicling her descent from Anatolian deity who lights the path to a decaying goddess over magic. It's a very interesting examination of the source material. For those of you familiar with d'Este's books about Hekate, Rabinowitz points
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out something she fails to mention each time: that at one time, apparently black puppies were sacrificed to Her. If anyone has any other material about this along with philosophers claiming of Hekate as superior goddess because She does not ask for blood, please let me know.
It's a book well-worth reading, whether I completely agree with the author's premise remains to be seen. At the core, he seems to also be claiming that the image of the witch comes to us from this slow change in Hekate's image and that perhaps witches themselves were created by it. Thus, instead of Hekate being a Goddess over witches and witchcraft, Rabinowitz attempts to show that instead Hekate morphed into a witch Herself.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

154 p.; 5.75 x 0.5 inches

ISBN

157027035X / 9781570270352

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