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 Choose a goddess from the following list:
| MEDITERRANEAN Asherah/Astarte
(Near East)
Demeter/Ceres ( Greece/Rome)
Artemis/Diana (Greece/Rome)
Aphrodite/Venus (Greece/Rome)
Athena/Minerva (Greece/Rome)
Isis (Egypt/Rome) |
CELTIC Arianrhod (Welsh)
Rhiannon (Welsh)
Cerridwen (Welsh)
Morrigan (Irish)
Brigid (Irish) |
SCANDINAVIAN
Freyja (Norse)
Frigg(Norse)
Hel (Norse)
Holde/Holle (Germanic)
Louhi (Finnish) |
| AFRO-CARIBBEAN: Oshun
(Yoruba/Caribbean)
Yemanja (Yoruba/Caribbean)
Erzulie (Afro-Caribbean) |
NATIVE
AMERICAN: Coatlicue
(Aztec)
Spider Woman (Hopi)
Corn Woman/Mother (Cheyenne/Seminole/
Cherokee)
Pele (Hawaii) |
ASIAN: Amaterasu
(Japan)
Guanyin (China)
Nu-Wa (China)
Kali (India)
Lakshmi (India)
Rangda (Bali) |
Immerse yourself in accounts of the goddess--look for stories, poems, visual images, songs, etc.
Keep an eye out for advertisements or newspaper or magazine articles that allude to the
goddess in some way.
Find a traditional text
(preferably a translation of an original text) of the goddess's
story. Be prepared to tell the story to the class. Include a xerox of the text
in your report -- start online with Goddess Links
to find a text
Discuss the importance of the
goddess in the culture in which she was worshipped.
How was she worshipped? What kinds of rituals were associated with
her? Were temples or shrines built to the goddess? How was she
represented visually in the culture? If your goddess was worshipped in
more than one culture, you may wish to do a comparison/contrast essay.
Find a re-imagining
of the goddess's story
by a 19th or 20th century
author -- a poem, a story, a novel, an art work, a piece of music, a play, a
dance -- In a 500-750 word
essay, discuss how
the modern author has interpreted the image of the goddess and for what purpose the author
has used the goddess.
Prepare a
Bibliography following MLA
Guidelines citing the sources (including Internet sources) you used to research this
assignment.
Before you
finish your
project, check out Tools for
Writing and Research. Read:
Writing
about Literature
and
Errors
That Drive Jones Crazy and
review Sample List of MLA Citations.
Present the goddess
to the class: tell the
story, discuss her importance in the culture, summarize your discussion of the modern
work, bring in visual images, come dressed as the goddess if you like -- be
imaginative.
If you decide to do a PPT presentation, please post it to the WebBoard before
class for easy access in class.
(50 points).
Turn in the
Goddess
Notebook which should contain:
* the traditional text (10
points)
* a 500-750 word discussion/analysis of her
cultural importance (30 points),
* a 500-750 word discussion/analysis of a modern work
depicting the goddess --
include a xerox of the work if it is short or a portion of a long work (30 points)
* the Bibliography (20
points)
* anything else
you'd like to include -- artwork, photos, advertisements, etc.
Presentation will count in
your grade (10 points).
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