Footnotes
Earth/Mother Goddesses
1 Klostermaier, Klaus K. A Survey of Hinduism. Second Edition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Page 147.
2 Kinsley, David R. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. p. 6.
3 Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses, p. 7.
4 Eck, Diana L. "Ganga: The Goddess Ganges in Hindu Sacred Geography." p. 137. In Devi: Goddesses of India. John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 137-153.
5 Eck, p. 145
The Egg Hatches into Duality
1 Embree, Ainslie T. Sources of Indian Tradition: Volume One: From the Beginning to 1800. Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Rg Veda Hymn 10.121, p. 19.
2 Rg Veda Hymn 10.121 in Embree, pp. 19-20.
3 Rg Veda Hymn 10.121 in Embree, pp. 19-20.
4 Embree, p. 21.
5 Klostermaier, pp. 397-8.
6 Klostermaier, p. 400.
7 Coburn, Thomas B. "Consort of None, Sakti of All: The Vision of the Devi-mahatmya." pp. 156-8. In The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India. John Stratton Hawley and Donna Mari Wulff, eds. Berkeley: Graduate Theological Union, 1982. 153-165.
8 Eck, pp. 178-9
9 Hawley, The Divine Consort, p. 378.
The Goddess as Enabler
1 O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. "The Shifting Balance of Power in the Marriage of Sive and Parvati." p. 132. In Hawley, The Divine Consort, 129-143.
2 Brown, C. Mackenzie. "The Theology of Radha in the Puranas." pp. 66-7. In Hawley, The Divine Consort, 57-71.
3 Brown, p. 67.
4 Klostermaier, p. 283.
5 O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. p. 116.
6 Klostermaier, p. 287.
7 Dexter, Miriam Robbins. Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book. New York: Pergamon Press, 1990. p. 174.
8 Coburn, pp. 156-8.
The Binding Woman
1 Klostermaier, pp. 401-2.
2 Brown, Cheever MacKenzie. God as Mother: A Feminine Theology in India -- An Historical and Theological Study of the Brahmavaivarta Purana. Vermont: Claude Stark & Co., 1974. p. 186.
3 Miller, Barbara Stoler. Theater of Memory: The Plays of Kalidasa. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. p. 98.
4 Miller, p. 133.
Who's Got the Power?
1 O'Flaherty, Women..., p. 118.
2 Miller, p. 182.
3 Miller, p. 31.
4 O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. p. 85.
5 See O'Flaherty, Tales..., p. 64 on.
6 Brown, p. 183.
7 Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses, p. 84.
8 O'Flaherty, Women..., p. 46.
9 Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses, p. 35.
10 O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Siva: The Erotic Ascetic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973. pp. 295-6.
The Goddess: Holder or Enabler of Fertility?
1 Dexter, p. 168.
2 Eck, p. 137.
3 Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses, p. 43.
4 O'Flaherty, Women..., pp. 39-40.
5 O'Flaherty, Siva, p. 296.