In the most remote traditions of the minority ethnic groups of China there abound the histories that emphasize the creative and civilizing role carried out by goddesses or feminine deities. Penetrating into the mystery that protagonist of the woman still shuts the role up in the origin and social development of the humanity.

Legends of the Goddess Mother presents for the first time to the western reader the heart of the feminine mythology of the peoples of China, across forty of his most representative myths, most of which any European language had never been translated. The set constitutes a collection of incomparable wealth, which study extracts to the light the principal characteristics of the matriarchal societies of China, as well as the transformations for which these disappear.

The histories that integrate this book, compiled the length and breadth of the immense Chinese geography, belonging to peoples who live in very different ambiences and speak a big variety of languages assigned to different families, show to the goddess as protagonist of the mythology, like fundamental piece in the development of the first human societies and in the birth of the original culture that began to differentiate the man of the animals.

Legends of the Goddess Mother is an essential work for the wealth of materials that reaches port, for the innovation of the same ones, and for the integration that the author proposes of these materials in the study of the Chinese culture and of the evolution of the human societies.

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