The Goddess in India(English, Paperback, Pattanaik Devdutt)

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The Goddess in India(English, Paperback, Pattanaik Devdutt) is written by Pattanaik Devdutt and published by Inner Traditions Bear and Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0892818077 (ISBN 10) and 9780892818075 (ISBN 13).

India is a land of Goddesses, for within every village, every lake there is a story of a protective goddess or a nymph watching over the people. The Goddess in India examines the mythology of India and collects the stories of some of the most wonderful portray of the Goddess in Indian culture. Summary of the Book An exhaustive collection of stories about goddesses across India, The Goddess in India explores how the various myths have evolved in over 4000 years of stories. Indian myth celebrates the female divinity, worshipping trees, nature and the earth until eventually personifying the myths into myriad myths. The collection contains some of the rarest stories, often discarded with disdain by priests and clerics alike, but it is these very stories that show how Hinduism portrays women, and how the present day stories have evolved. About Devdutt Pattanaik Devdutt Pattanaik is an Indian physician, writer and leadership consultant. He is the author of several other books including: Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, The Pregnant King and Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata. A graduate of Grant Medical College, Mumbai, he worked in Pharma for fourteen years before moving on to a career in writing.