For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are.
Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who...

For fifteen centuries, legends of King Arthur have inspired generations. Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon offers readers insight into why the Once and Future King remains so popular, discussing the recognizable icons, the myths and many tales, from the very earliest versions to the most recent film and television adaptations.