![]() ![]() ![]() Despite this, she still cites about 300 sources in the Bibliography at the end of the book.Ī typical entry consists of the spirit’s name, other names they’re known by, place of origin, iconography, manifestation, history, myths, offerings, sacred animals, sacred plants, sacred numbers, elemental, planetary and color correspondences, as well as a “see also” for related spirits. But coming in at 1,072 pages it would be almost impossible to cite all of sources without adding a few hundred more pages. On one hand, yes it would have been amazing if she listed all of her sources. The information she provided was indeed correct, although obscure. Well, since I wanted to find the sources for some of the information that she provides that I couldn’t find in any of my books (and my library is pretty extensive) or online, I began digging through academic papers and archeological surveys with the help of a ancient pagan history expert and there I found my answers. Another Amazon reviewer rudely demands where Illes is getting her information from, and whether its from a commonly mistaken ”perversion” of history. I used this book as one of the references for a piece I wrote about Cybele in an anthology on goddesses and I was going insane trying to figure out where she was getting some of her information. A lot of the information within the entries are rare. ![]()
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