Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts

University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Paperback

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, The Wisdom Goddess of Dirt Digging

If you've ever wondered, "What does the horse penis have to do with it?", you've now discovered the right source for a meticulous collection of data not only regarding the Vedic queen and the stallion myth, but also human copulation and erotic interaction with mares and stallions in Indo-European mythology.

This book represents a collaboration of papers presented at various conferences with additional research contributed by other noted scholars. An excellent resource for Vedic and Post-Vedic references concerning the significance of semen, menstrual blood and sexual fluids as well as wild, sexually explicit tales of male-dominating goddesses. The author further provides a fascinating analysis of the androgyne which appears in mythology world-wide in such various forms as hermaphrodites, transsexuals, transvestites and eunuchs.

Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts is truly one of the greatest tributes to honest dirt digging.

Review: Jane Sperr
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