{"id":282,"date":"2004-10-09T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2004-10-09T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T23:29:00","slug":"282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Goddess is Back, and She’s Horny<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waking the Moon<\/em><\/a>, another unintentional Pagan classic, covers some of the same ground as Tartt’s The Secret History<\/em><\/a>. There is the university setting, the eccentric professor, the elite group of students, but then things take a different turn, down the road of conspiracy theory reaching back to the Bronze Age at the very least, whereas The Secret History<\/em> is more about hubris and intellectual vanity.<\/p>\n

Author Elizabeth Hand <\/a> attended the Catholic University of America, where she “used to wonder what the priests were really<\/em> into,” recalls one of her college acquaintances.<\/p>\n

I wonder why so many people assume that Goddess worship must necessarily involve human sacrifice. Waking the Moon<\/em> is still a good read, although some readers have been thankful that it was never made into a cheap horror flick.<\/p>\n

For all the cosmic battles, Hand is not a mastery of astronomy. At the beginning of Chapter 8, a character awakes at dawn, looks out her dormitory window and sees the new moon in the sky. (An uncritical plot summary-review here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Goddess is Back, and She’s Horny Waking the Moon, another unintentional Pagan classic, covers some of the same ground as Tartt’s The Secret History. There is the university setting, the eccentric professor, the elite group of students, but then things take a different turn, down the road of conspiracy theory reaching back to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-282","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12680,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12680","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":0},"title":"Ronald Hutton’s Goddess Book Available for Pre-order","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"From the publisher, Yale University Press: In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/queens-of-the-wild.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4887,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4887","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":1},"title":"A Goddess-Movement Video with Something Extra","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"First, although this is not directly about \"the Goddess movement,\" I want to point out the blogging that Aidan Kelly has been doing, particularly about the history of contemporary Paganism in America, at his Patheos blog, Including Paganism. Another resource is Dancing with Gaia, a video subtitled \"Earth Energy, Sacred\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gaiadancing.com\/images\/gaia_dancing_dvdcopySm.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7888,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7888","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":2},"title":"CFP: “Pagan, Goddess, Mother”","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"DEMETER PRESS Seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled Pagan, Goddess, Mother Editors: Sarah Whedon & Nan\u00e9 Jordan Deadline for Abstracts: September 1st, 2016 Pagan spirituality and Goddess spirituality are distinct, yet overlapping movements and communities, each with much to say about deity as mother and about human mothers in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7386,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7386","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":3},"title":"A History of the Gods of Irish Myth","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Forthcoming from Princeton University Press, Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth (2016), by Mark Williams. Think of the \"Finding a God\" and \"Finding a Goddess\" chapters of Ronald Hutton's Triumph of the Moon \u2014 but book-length, dealing with Irish material, and the product of numerous quests\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Ireland\"","block_context":{"text":"Ireland","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=ireland"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7089,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7089","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":4},"title":"Polyamory and the Secret History of Wonder Woman","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Snow is falling, and I am elbow deep in putting together the next Bulletin for the Study of Religion, which among other things carries an article called \"What is a Superhero? How Myth Can Be a Metacode,\" by Kenneth MacKendrick of the University of Manitoba. So, with comics on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"culture\"","block_context":{"text":"culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=culture"},"img":{"alt_text":"wonder woman","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wonder-woman.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11666,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11666","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":5},"title":"The Morrigan, Therapy, and Female Self-Narration on Social Media","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"From The Pomegranate's special issue on Paganism, art, and fashion, here is a link to \u00c1ine Warren's article, \"The Morrigan as a 'Dark Goddess': A Goddess Re-Imagined Through Therapeutic Self-Narration of Women on Social Media.\" It and other Pomegranate articles are currently available as free downloads. Here \u00c1ine Warren talks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Goddess\"","block_context":{"text":"Goddess","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=goddess"},"img":{"alt_text":"Idealized interpreation of the Morrigan","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ectweb.cs.depaul.edu\/wcotterm\/pics\/hekate.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}