Citations:triple goddesses

English citations of triple goddesses

Noun: "plural form of triple goddess"

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• 1989 — Miranda Green, Symbol & Image in Celtic Religious Art, Routledge (2001), →ISBN, page 190:

  We should not forget that the Roman world knew triple goddesses — the three Fates and the three Nymphs are examples.

• 1995 — Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick, A History of Pagan Europe, Routledge (1995), →ISBN, page 86:

  Romano-Celtic shrines, like later Celtic myths, tell of triple goddesses such as the Proximae (kinswomen), Dervonnae (oak-sprites) and Niksai (water-goddesses).

• 1999 — Jean Markale, The Great Goddess: Reverence of the Divine Feminine from the Paleolithic to the Present (trans. Jody Gladding), Inner Traditions International (1999; originally published in French in 1997), →ISBN, page 95:

  They make us think again of those "triple goddesses" of the Gaelic tradition in Ireland, those famous triads sometimes called "triple Brigit" or "triple Macha."

• 2007 — Kris Waldherr, Goddess Inspiration Oracle, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 100:

  The universal presence of these triple goddesses suggest the strength and authority of the Divine Feminine everywhere.

• 2008 — Michelle Skye, Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic With Celtic & Norse Goddesses, Llewellyn Publications (2008), →ISBN, page 250 (footnote):

  While triple goddesses can be found in many cultures (Celtic, Roman, Greek, Hindu, and Mesopotamian, for example), the classification of the triplicity into a maiden-mother-crone format is distinctly modern.