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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> India has given the world the Hindu worldview a way of looking at life that is quite different from the Judeo-Christian-Islamic scheme of things. Hindu scriptures make no mention of original sin. There is no talk of fall or redemption. No Eve is held responsible for the loss of paradise. No god decrees that man shall rule over woman. Instead power- ful and awe-inspiring goddesses are enshrined in Hindu temples. Why then is Hindu society patriarchal? Why are women described by Hindu lawmakers as temptations to be veiled and shrews to be tamed? This book seeks the answer in stories held sacred by the Hindus. Like all sacred lores sacred Hindu lore is a much-revered gift handed down by ancestors that gives an identity to a people a worldview to a culture and a frame of reference to a civilization. It forms the foundation of rituals customs and traditions. It gives the why of things. Just as tales of Lilith Eve Jael Judith Jezebel Ruth Salome and Mary express the Abrahamic atti- tude toward women so do tales of women from sacred Hindu lore capture Hindu views on womanhood. Beyond the din of masculine sagas the sacred literature of the Hindus is filled with plots palpating with feminine dreams and themes grating with female fury. There are tales of goddesses who strike children with fever nymphs who seduce sages celestial virgins who run free in forests and chaste wives who fling themselves on funeral pyres to. (LL)