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 The Dark Archetype, Don't Bother
DarkGoddess
post May 11 2007, 07:25 PM
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I recently finished reading a book called The Dark Archetype: Exploring the Shadow Side of the Divine.

It, unfortunately, is a shallow, simplistic and pithy attempt at a sort of juvenile feminist look at the "darker" side of various pantheons. There is a short introduction of the various beings discussed, no real information is given. You'd be better off reading the Wikipedia articles. Then the second half of the book is given to a single "working" for each being. However, these workings are at best for dabblers and are quite benign. Hardly what one would expect from a book pretending to explore the darker side of existance.

Save your money.


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To these I turn, in these I trust;
Brother Lead and Sister Steel.
To his blind power I make appeal;
I guard her beauty clean from rust.

He spins and burns and loves the air,
And splits a skull to win my praise;
But up the nobly marching days
She glitters naked, cold and fair.

Sweet Sister, grant your soldier this;
That in good fury he may feel
The body where he sets his heel
Quail from your downward darting kiss.

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