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The source of life and being, once prevalent in religious imagination, but much suppressed during the millennia of male control of religions. The same observations about the provisionality of language ...

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Goddess
in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology Length: 1744 words
goddess/Goddess
in A Dictionary of Hinduism Length: 25 words
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in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev) Length: 67 words
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