Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass market. His bestselling books, like the Power of Misconception and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, will be the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics.

While Campbell’s function reached wide and deep as he covered the world’s great mythological customs, he by no means wrote a reserve on goddesses in globe mythology. He did, however, have much to say about them. Between 1972 and 1986 he offered over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, discovering the about Goddesses: Mysteries from the Feminine Divine figures, functions, symbols, and styles of the female divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs.

In this provocative volume, editor Safron Rossi—a goddess research scholar, professor of mythology, and curator of collections at Opus Archives, which holds the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library—collects these lectures for the very first time. In them, Campbell traces the development of the feminine divine from one Great Goddess to numerous, from Neolithic Aged Europe to the Renaissance. He sheds new light on traditional motifs and reveals the way the womanly divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of change, initiation, and inspiration.