LA DIOSA BLANCA

LA DIOSA BLANCA

NUEVA EDICIÓN, AMPLIADA Y CORREGIDA

ROBERT GRAVES

$1,135.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
ALIANZA
Materia
GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA
ISBN:
978-84-206-9178-7
Idioma:
Castellano

Ensayo erudito y apasionado, reconstruye el lenguaje mágico de la Europa antigua mediterránea y septentrional, vinculado a ceremonias religiosas populares en honor a la diosa Luna. Graves nos narra cómo en Europa y Oriente Próximo existían culturas matriarcales que adoraban a una Diosa Suprema y que reconocían a los dioses masculinos solo como sus hijos, consortes o víctimas para el sacrificio. Estas culturas fueron eliminadas por la irrupción del patriarcado que arrebató a las mujeres su autoridad, elevó a los consortes de la Diosa a una posición de supremacía divina y reconstruyó mitos y rituales para ocultar el pasado. La conquista patriarcal llegó a Britania y al resto de Europa occidental alrededor del 400 a. de C. En La Diosa Blanca, Graves mezcla distintos géneros para, a través de los bosques mitológicos de medio mundo, sumergirnos en los antecedentes históricos, tribales y místicos de la poesía, pasando de las mitologías griegas a las simbologías panteístas y naturalistas de los bardos celtas, para terminar satirizando a la sociedad contemporánea. Es su libro más personal, un ensayo inteligente que muestra la originalidad de Robert Graves y que resulta imprescindible para comprender su obra y su manera de pensar. La presente y definitiva edición de La Diosa Blanca la ha llevado a cabo el profesor Grevel Lindop a partir de la última versión y apuntes del autor para la de 1961. Es una nueva y meticulosa traducción de su hijo y albacea literario William Graves.

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