Sexual Metaphors And Animal Symbols In Indian Mythology Wendy Doniger Oflaherty by Wendy Doniger O’flaherty 9780226618494, 0226618498 instant download after payment.

Sexual Metaphors and Animal Symbols in Indian Mythology is a study of Women Androgynes and other mythological Beasts to express religious concepts about the relationships between men and women,
parents and children, gods and goddesses, and humans and deities. The analysis attempts to understand these dominant themes as they occur in myths, rituals, and other cultural manifestations throughout the ancient world and in our own contem­
porary culture.
Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty uses an
eclectic methodological approach, drawing upon insights from psychoanalysis, anthro­pology, traditional philology, and history of religions.
“An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of idea, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author’s inter­ pretation, one cannot but admire her vast
and precise learning, her splendid trans­ lations and exegesis of so many an