This book provides a better understanding of the ubiquitous deity in Yoruba pantheon, an objective which is brilliantly achieved. The author's extensive fieldwork involved close interactions with the leaders and votaries of the Esu cult, particularly in two major Yoruba cities w…
"Kathleen Herbert sifts through the royal genealogies, charms, verse and other sources to find clues to the names and attributes of the Gods and Goddesses of the early English. The earliest account of English heathen practices reveals that they worshipped the Earth Mother and ca…
Heritage as source : histories and images of Osun Osogbo -- Heritage as novelty : revitalizing Yoruba art in the spirit of modernism -- Heritage as project : hybridity and the reauthentication of the Osun Grove -- Heritage as style : travel, interaction, and the branding of Osog…
The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no writt…
The importance of the eternal feminine as a way to a constructive, non-exploitative worldview is brilliantly mirrored in these four essays by Campbell and other eminent authors.
