A review by thepurplebookwyrm
Goddess: 50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief by Janina Ramírez

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

A lovely and beautifully illustrated compendium of goddesses and other female entities from religion, mythology and folklore. I was familiar with most of them, but discovered a couple of new figures as well, and it was really neat to see a paragraph about worship/religious practices for each of them. My only item of criticism is that I don't think the way the goddesses & cie were slotted into their respective thematic categories always made perfect sense... though, in all fairness, a lot of pagan and Eastern deities had more than one function/domain of influence.

I would highly recommend this one, especially as a gift for younger readers – adult mythology nerds such as myself, however, will definitely enjoy this as well.