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For the hefty page count, this is truly an overview of all the aspects, changes, and histories of Mother...and what a brilliant overview it is.

Some books shouldn't be retitled. For how much this dude loves Freud, I'd like Freud to read this book. He'd either die or he'd have a whole new branch of misogynistic psychology cooked up

Buddy reading !!

Generally a fantastic book to read in order to understand the relationship between the dead and the living in various ancient greek locales. It dips into myths around the dead & divine intervention (either in killing them or saving them), goes over various deities associated with the dead (such as Hecate and Hermes) and the final chapter on the function of the Erinyes was a really good one and has sparked a whole lot of interest in me to go and have a look further into Them & Their worship.

Everything is a womb if you try hard enough! Quite disappointed, was hoping for a lot more from a book focusing on the rosary and Mary outside of organised christianity. I found Perdita's chapters to be insightful and caring (bumping from a one star to a two), but the other chapters were short and began to become repetitive. I think this would've benefitted from longer chapters with citations for some of the historical & ecological claims. On top of all of the previous, a good chunk of the book read as though Clark Strand had just found out women are also people with feelings and thoughts. The appendix and practical information on the rosary was fine though.