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Wilson, Mary Lynn.

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The origin and function of female divinity in pre-Christian Germanic Europe.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The origin and function of female divinity in pre-Christian Germanic Europe./
Author:	Wilson, Mary Lynn.
Description:	373 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-08, Section: A, page: 2976.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-08A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9943780
ISBN:	0599454601

The origin and function of female divinity in pre-Christian Germanic Europe.
Wilson, Mary Lynn.

The origin and function of female divinity in pre-Christian Germanic Europe. - 373 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-08, Section: A, page: 2976.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1999.

Due to the scarcity of individual sources, the best approach to the questions of the origin and functions of female figures in pre-Christian Germanic is to use interdisciplinary sources. This approach helps fill in the gaps left when only one or two lines of inquiry are used.

ISBN: 0599454601Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

The origin and function of female divinity in pre-Christian Germanic Europe.
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520 $a When female figures of Germanic myth and folklore are examined and compared with one another, similar patterns of characteristics and functions appear. One of the most prevalent functions of these figures is related to death and the dead. Almost all of the figures seem to have some connection with death. Many of these figures can assume the shape of a bird or can fly through the air. These bird-like figures often have a close association with death or the dead.
520 $a Another important function of these figures is fertility and prosperity. The same figure that has connections with death will often have connections with fertility and prosperity. Several of these figures have functions relating to protection and the ancestors. Some of these figures have the ability to foretell the future. Some are associated with winter, and others are associated with the sun.
520 $a At least three possibilities exist for the origin of these female figures. They could be Indo-European, Old European, or influence from Celtic belief Some of the aspects of these figures are clearly Old European and others are clearly Indo-European. The Celts were influenced by the same cultures, and their influence on the Germanic tribes only strengthened the influence of Old European and Indo-European. cultures.
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