Goddess of Twilight

This book is a guide to the labyrinth of female symbols and mythical images of the ancient religions of the East: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and the Sufi tradition of Islam. The Great Goddess, the embodiment of the dawn of the morning and the dawn of the evening, the creative and destructive principles, is the most ancient idea of ​​man about the Divine. The authors of the book show that this idea has never disappeared from religion, despite the pressure of patriarchal culture. Awareness of this, they believe, will help solve many modern problems. Thomas Cleary, a researcher of ancient oriental literature, is known in our country as the author of the books The Japanese Art of War and The Chinese Art of War. Sartaz Aziz, a native of Pakistan, is a professor at the Universities of the State of California (USA)