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Sacred voices: essential women's wisdom through the ages
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From the Book - First edition.
Part 1 Title: Voices of History
Anonymous Hymn in Praise of Inanna Mesopotamia Second or Third Millennium B.C.E.: She Made the Night Come Forth like the Moonlight
A Priestess of Inanna Sumea c 2000 B.C.E: Bridegroom Beloved of my Heart
Hashepsowe Egypt Ruled 1503-1482 B.C.E.: Hail King?Female Sun!
Anonymous Love Song Egypt between 1300 and 1100 B.C.E.: My Hand Is in Your Hand
Sappho Lesbos Greece Seventh Century B.C.E: Thank You My Dear, Leave Crete
Patacara India Sixth or Fifth Century B.C.E.: I?ve Done what I Was Taught
Canda India Sixth or Fifth Century B.C.E.: I Was Lost
Mettika India Sixth or Fifth Century B.C.E.: Psalm
Sumangalamata India Sixth or Fifth Century B.C.E: At Last Free
Praxilla Greece c 450 B.C.E.: Cucumbers Apples and Pears
The Booth of Ruth Palestine First Millennium B.C.E.: Where You Go Will I Go
Judith Palestine Second Half of the Second Century B.C.E.: In Praise of Judith?s Courage
Anonymous Lament Mesopotamia Ancient Oral Tradition B.C.E.: Lament of the Flutes for Tammuz
Mary the Mother of Jesus Palestine First Century C.E.: The Magnificat
The Gospel of Mary Palestine First Century C.E.: The Sacredness of Mary Magdalen to Jesus
Perpetua Carthage Tunisia North Africa c 182-202 or 203: From Perpetua?s Diary
A Court record Saloniki Greece 304: The Trial and Sentencing of Agape Chione Irene and Four of Their Friends
Egeria Western Europe Late Fourth to Early Fifth Century: Journey to Jersualem
Hypatia Egypt d 415: Such Are My Gods
Anonymous Lament of Mary Syria Sixth Century: Lament of Mary for Her Son
Yamatohime Japan Seventh Century: Others May Forget You
Lady Kasa Japan Eighth Century: I Dreamed I Held A Sword
Rabia Al Adawiyya Persia Iraq 717-801: Stars Are Shining, A Dream, You Are Sufficient, Without You, From Her Biography, My Joy, Teachings on Prayer
Mandarava of Zahor India Eighth Century: The Leave Taking
Rayhana Today?s Iraq Eighth to Ninth Century: You Are my Longing
Dhuodana Septimania South of France 803-843: From A Manual For William
Umm Abdallah Tirmidh Central Asia Ninth Century: The Second Dream, The Third Dream
Bhiksuni Lakshmi Kashmir Tenth or Eleventh Century: From The Chant to Accompany Her Fasting Practice
Anonymous Love song Spain c 1042: So Much Loving
Christina of Markyate England c 1096-1166: You Cannot Make Me Forget
Heloise France c 1100-1163: From A Letter to Abelard
Hildegard of Bingen Germany 1098-1179: A Vision of the Sacred Feminine, Vision of Shadow of the Living Light, A Vision of Living light, Antiphon for Divine Wisdom, From Antiphon for the angels, From Antiphon for the Holy Spirit, I God Am in your Midst
Sun Buer China 1124: Cut Brambles Long Enough
Mahadevi India Twelfth Century: The Whole Forest is You, I wear the Morning Light, I am Watching All the Roads
Clare of Assisi Italy 1194
1253: Go Forward Securely, Contemplation, From the Way of Saint Clare
Beatrice of Nazareth Brabant Netherlands or Belgium c 1200
1268: A Waterfall of Ineffable Delight, Vision of the World as a Wheel
Mechthild of Magdeburg Germany c 1212-1282: That Prayer Has the greatest Power, I Cannot Dance O Lord, Would You Know My Meaning, Lord You Are my Lover, Lord Now I Am Naked
Miktabai India Thirteenth Century: Where the Eyes See Nothing, Fire in My Mind
Angela of Foligno Italy 12-48-1309: An Experience of Oneness
Gertrude the Great Germany 1265-1301: Divine Birth in the Soul, Through a Desert Without a Path, I Find All My Joy in You
Marguerite Porete France c 1277-1310: The empty Mirror, The Soul Speaks to the beloved
Hadewijch Flanders Belgium c 1250: God Be with You Dear Friend, If I Desire Something, Love Has Subjugated me, The Mind Can Never Understand
Irene Eulogia Constantinople 1291-1355: A Thirteenth Century Sear for Spiritual Guidance
Catherine of Siena Italy 1347-1380: A Soul Rises Up, A Prayer of Praise, Praying in the Spirit, The Bridge God Speaks to the Soul, On Corruption in the Fourteenth Century Church
Lalleshwari Kashmir Fourteenth Century: Wild Longing, Why Lalla Stopped Wearing Clothes, Live in the Soul, Go Beyond Experience, Moonlight Full of Knowledge, Hidden in My Body, Cutting Through the Six Forests, Gently Gently I Trained My Mind
Julian of Morwich England 1342- c 1423: The Hazelnut, Be a Gardener, Our Sensuality, God is Our Mother, All Shall Be Well
Christine de Pisan Italy 1365- c 1429: How A Wise Woman in the Year 1405 Works For Peace
Margery Kempe England 1373-1439: The Archbishop Puts her in Chains
Catherine of Genoa Italy 1447-1510: Commitment, Transparency, Three teachings
Mirabai India 1498-1550: Why Mira Can?t Go Back, O Friends I am Mad, The Dark One is Here Inside, The City Seeks Its Lord, I Put Bells on my Ankles, O Friend Understand
Teresa of Avila Spain 1515-1582: Two Fountains two Ways of prayer
Rose of Lima Peru 1586-1617: Mosquitoes in Praise
Anonymous Pawnee Chant Native America Oral Tradition: Anointing with Sacred ointment
Anne Bradstreet England 1612-1672: On the Burning of our House July 10 1666
Margaret Mary Alacoque France 1647-1690: From A Vision of the Divine Heart, Prayer to the Sacred Heart
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Mexico 1648-1695: Selections
Rwala Bedouin Women Arabian Peninsula oral tradition: O Mother of Rain Rain Upon us
Ann Lee England 1736-1784: Tis the Gift to be Simple, The Lord of the Dance
Sojourner Truth New York 1799-1883: Ar?n?t I A Woman, In Defense of Eve, I Am Going to Stay right Here and Stand the Fire
Pygmy Women Zaire Todays Democratic Public of Congo Oral tradition: Women?s Morning Song, Chant for a Sick Child
Ashanti Women Ghana Oral Tradition: From The Menstrual Rite of passage, Let One Remain, In Desperation of Grief, Cover me with the Night
Bibi Hayati Persia Iraq 1753: is this darkness the night of power
Eskimo Prayer West Greenland Oral Tradition: Thanks for the Birth of a Baby girl
A Hopi Creation Story Native America Oral Tradition: In the Womb of Earth Mother
Harriet A Jacobs North Carolina 1813-1897: From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Florence Nightingale England 1820-1910: From A Letter on women?s Stagnation in the Nineteenth Century
Emily Dickinson Massachusetts 1830-1886: I Had Been Hungry All the years, Wild Nights Wild Nights, I Saw No Way, After Great Pain, Thoughts, A Letter to Mrs J G Holland, A Letter to Susan Dickinson Gilbert
Myrtle Fillmore Ohio 1845-1931: God Does Not punish, Other teachings
Frontier Women on the Overland Trail United States 1840-1870: A Page from the Diary of Catherine Haun
Sarada Devi India 1853-1920: Teachings on daily Spiritual Life
Concepcion Cabrera de Armida Conchita Mexico 1862-1937: From her Diary
Osage Chant Native America Oral Tradition: Planting Chant
Gemma Galgani Italy 1878-1903: Mystical Burning, How I See Our Souls in God
Elizabeth of the Trinity France 1880-1906: O My beloved Star
Eliza Calvert hall Kentucky Nineteenth Century: Piecin? A Quilt?s like Livin? a life.
Part 2 Title: Voices of Our Times
Irina Ratushinskaia Russia Twentieth Century: The Babushki?s Trousseau
Mary Mercedes Lane California 1871-1965: Electronic Communications
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette France 1973-1954: Letter Concerning Her Pink Cactus
Evelyn Underhill England 1875-1941: The Goal of the mystical Journey
The Mother France 1878-1973: a Dream
Isadora Duncan California 1878-1927: I Live in My Body
Virginia Woolf England 1882-1941: From Mrs Dalloway, From a room of one?s Own, From to the Lighthouse
Georgia O?Keeffe Wisconsin 1887-1986: About Painting Desert Bones, On the Wilderness and wonder of the world, on saying what she wanted to, from a letter to Anita Pollitzer January 1916, from a letter to Anita September 1916, from a letter to Anita October 1916, From a Letter to Anita 1929
Anna Akhmatova Russia 1889-1966: Selections
Gabriela Mistral Chile 1889-1957: From Prayer, The Powerful Against the Poor 1928, From those Who Do Not Dance
Anita Scott Coleman New Mexico 1890-1960:No 60 in Ward 400
Anandamayi Ma India 1896-1982: Sayings and Advice
Satomi myodo Japan 1896-1978: A Liberating experience
Maria Valtorta Italy 1897-1961: A Vision of Mary, God Speaks to Mary During Creation
Dorothy Day New York 1897-1980: Voluntary Poverty, Jail
Elsa Gidlow England 1898-1986: From Chains of Fire
Irina Tweedie Russia 1907-1999: Circulation of Light in the Body, This is a Promise and I Will keep it
Simone Weil France 1909-1943: From waiting for God, Divine Love in the Midst of Affliction
Mae V Cowdery Pennsylvania 1909-1953: A Dream of Love
Mother Teresa Albania 1910-1997: Be A Candle, Who are the Poor
Sivananda Radha Germany 1911-1995: Why Practice Yoga
Mahalia Jackson Louisiana 1911-1972: From Movin? on up
Clare Buckland 1914 and Diana Douglas 1960 Canada: Conscious Dying
Mary Caroline Richards Oregon 1916-1999: Seeing with the inner eye, How can we Teach love
Twylah Nitsch New York 1920: Digging a Hole Big Enough to Sit in
Ayya Khema Germany 1923: From be an Island
Carmen Bernos de Gasaztold France 1925: Prayer of the cat, Prayer of the Bee, Prayer of the Butterfly
Leila Hadley New York 1925: From a Journey with the Elsa Cloud
Jose Hobday Texas 1928: A beggars Gift a Low Budget Affair
Dorothy Walters Oklahoma 1928: Why, The runway, Waiting, A kundalini Awakening
Marion Woodman Canada 1928: Dancers You are priests and priestesses, the Crone
Joanna Macy California 1929: From world as Lover World as Self
Ursula K Leguin California 1929: Owl Coyote Soul
Thea O?brien Canada 1930: The Delight of Old Age
Anne Baring England 1931: The Black Madonna, travels that Kindle Sprit, Where Should I Turn for Guidance
Toni Morrison Ohio 1931: From beloved, A wedding Sermon of the reverend Senior Pulliam, From Her Nobel Lecture December 7 1993
Audre Lorde New York 1934-1992: The erotic as Sacred
jane Goodall England 1934: Selections on working with Chimpanzees
Mary Oliver Ohio 1935: Wild geese
Lucille Clifton, New York 1936: Holy night
Sylvia Boorstein New York 1936: Right Effort Remember be happy
Pema Chodron New Mexico 1936: from start where you are, from when things fall apart
Chan Khong Vietnam 1938; in the War Zone
Madeline l?Engle New York Contemporary: From Mary Speaks, Caring one person at a time, From a Circle of quite
Elizabeth S Strahan California 1940: Women of that Certain Age
Joan Chittister Pennsylvania Contemporary: a Time to laugh
Sharon Olds California 1942: New Mother
Julia Vinograd California 1943: Ballad of Columbine High School Killings
Marilyn Krysl Kansas 1943: Grandmother
Alice walker Georgia 1944: From the Color Purple, From the Universe responds, From the Temple of my Familiar
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky California 1944: Initiate (After HD)
Annie Dillard Pennsylvania 1945: This is where we the people come out, Teaching a stone to talk, Like a hole in Earth?s crust
Rachel Naomi Remen MD New York Contemporary: A Room with a View, the Recovery of the Sacred Some Thoughts on Medical Reform
Michelle Lynn Ryan California 1945: Midnight of the soul (Fana Annihilation), Mountolive the Apostate Catacombs 300 AD, from Unde Malum
Diana Eck Montana 1945: Encountering God in other Traditions
Christian Northup MD Main Contemporary: A One Size Fits All Prescription
Regina Sara Ryan new York 1945: the Way of Waiting, the Way of the warrior
Cynthia Burgeault Canada 1945: The Mystical union of Two Souls
Carol Flinders Oregon 1945: Our Daughters our Selves
Lauren Artress Ohio 1945: From walking a Sacred path
Linda Hogan Chicksaw people 1947: the sweat Lodge
Luisah Teish Louisiana 1948: Ancestor Reverence
Starhawk California Contemporary: Power over and Power from within
Carolyn Myss Illinois Contemporary: On Heading
Kathleen Norris South Dakota 1950: From Dakota, Making Silence, Feasting with the Benedictine Sisters
Nita Penfold New York 1950: The woman with the Wild grown hair Relaxes, After Another Long Day
Karen McCarthy Brown New York Contemporary: From Mama Lola a Voudu Priestess in Brooklyn
Amy Tan California 1952: From the Joy Luck Club
Fran Preavey United Stares Contemporary: the Chimpanzee at Stanford
Dominique Mazeaud United States Contemporary: The Great Cleansing of the Rio Grande
Tirzah Firestone United States 1954: From with roots to Heaven
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda India 1955: Wake Up
Adriana Diaz California 1955: Tantric Tango
Louise Erdrich North Dakota 1955: from the Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Nancy Diamante Bonazzoli Massachusetts 1957: Lying with the Beloved
Marjorie Crocombe Cook Islands Contemporary: From the Healer
Sharon Lebell California 1957: Conduct Yourself with Dignity, Self-Mastery in the target that the Divine Will Wishes us to aim at, Treasure your mind cherish your reason hold your purpose
Eva Wong Hong Kong Contemporary: Taoist Chant and Dance
Maria Cristina Gonzales Texas 1957: The Nurturing of the Desert Mother Ariditas
Paula Kane Robinson Arai United States Contemporary: To Become Like Plum Blossom ( Not as easy as it sounds)
Lori Arviso Alvord MD New Mexico 1959: A Navajo Medicine man Blesses the ICU
Rigoberta Menchu Guatamala1959: From I Rigoberta menchu an Indian woman in Guatemala
Oriah Mountain Dreamer Canada 1960: The Invitation
Jackie Joyner Kersee Illinois 1962: Being an Athlete in a Kind of grace
Tracy Cochran New York Contemporary: Alexandra?s First retreat, From Playing with God a Childs Response to Religion
Toni Boehm United States Contemporary: Diagnosis
Malia Dominica Wong Hawaii 1964: Recipes for anyone Hungry on their Spiritual Path
Joan Duncan Oliver Kentucky Contemporary: Moving with Spirit, the Spirit of Exercise
Tara Grabowsky MD Mexico 1970: Fury and Love
Julia Butterfly Hill Arkansas 1975: The Storm
Miranda Shaw United States Contemporary: From Passionate Enlightenment, wild wise Passionate Dakinis in America
Sara Sviri England Contemporary: Black Light, Khidr the green man, Rashani Birthplace Unknown Contemporary: There is a Brokenness
Koei Hoshino Japan Contemporary: the Zen Art of Cooking
Mercy Amba Oduyoye Ghana Contemporary: Woman with beads
Clarissa Pinkola Estes United States Contemporary: Father Earth.
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