Priestesses Author:Norma Lorre Goodrich To explore the lives of priestesses, who were once glamorous women at the center of civilization, Norma Lorre Goodrich has collected evidence from innumerable sources around the world. Echoing her previous works on ancient and medieval myths, "Priestesses" recovers lost knowledge. — Due in no small part to age-old fears of matriarchal societies, ... more »these once honored women -- Amazons, the Cumaean Sibyl of Rome, Druid priestesses, Vestal Virgins, Medusa, the Oracles at Delphi, queens reigning in Egypt, Turkey, Libya, and Syria -- have all been denigrated and dismissed, and stripped from the history texts. Remembrance of these marvelous women draws on the work of such scholars of mythology as Sigmund Freud, Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, and Sir James Frazer. Inquiry has led to a new study of ancient historians and classical scholars, which in turn has revealed the thousands of priestesses who lived throughout the ancient world, from Asia Minor to Ireland.
They emerge in full glory once more -- queens, princesses, temple dancers, warriors, and religious who over the centuries had commanded the most sacred rites. With more than one million copies of her books in print, and recent worldwide recognition for her discovery of King Arthur's castles. Normal Lorre Goodrich has triumphed in this, the most formidable task she has yet demanded of herself. The centuries-old battle waged by malevolent or ill-informed historians against heroic women and their matriarchal societies has denied these women their rightful places in history. Today, they have been restored to honor.« less