{"product_id":"great-goddesses-isbn-9780593085646","title":"Great Goddesses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose retelling the legends of the Goddesses, both great and small, in their own words.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith lyrical prose and striking verse, beloved poet Nikita Gill (\u003ci\u003eFierce Fairytales\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWild Embers\u003c\/i\u003e) uses the history of Ancient Greece and beyond to explore and share the stories of the mothers, warriors, creators, survivors, and destroyers who shook the world. In pieces that burn with empathy and admiration for these women, Gill unearths the power and glory of the very foundations of mythology and culture that have been too-often ignored or pushed aside. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Gill's poetry and stories weave old and forgotten tales of might and love into an empowering collection for the modern woman.\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eNew \u0026amp; Noteworthy Pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Powerful...we all grew up to the sounds of sweet bedtime tales, captivated by the stories of Gods, monsters, princes and distressed damsels....Indeed, these heroines aren’t distressed, they’re depressed—and they need someone to give them a voice. That person is Gill. \u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This empowering collection sheds light on women who are often misunderstood and is a piece of 'modern feminst magic.'\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNikita Gill \u003c\/b\u003eis a British-Indian writer and poet living in the south of England. With a huge online following, her words have entranced hearts and minds all over the world.\u003cp\u003eI lost a God once. It’s easier done than people think. Forget a prayer once in a while or simply grow grief in your kitchen window along with the basil and rosemary. Somewhere inside my heart, I misplaced my faith, misunderstood my own origin story, became a person half tragedy, more misery, and I started to relish it. I revelled in this losing of everything that I thought I was, the lack of self-care; the drowning becomes such a needful thing when you think there is nothing left to look forward to. When my faith came back to me, like the forgiving water of a river to the pebbles that it smooths by constant weather and wear, I asked myself, what happens to the Gods when their people forget how to know them? What happens to their fearsome might when the fervent belief fades?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo you think they are still powerful when they become less than a memory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr do you think without the power of prayer everything that makes them immortal is nothing but a façade?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Primordial Goddesses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Verily at the first Khaos (Chaos, the Chasm) [Air] came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Gaea, Earth), the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos . . .’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Hesiod,Theogony 116\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChaos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Lorenz, the mathematician,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efather of chaos theory, defines chaos as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘When the present determines the future,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut the approximate present does not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapproximately determine the future.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich loosely translated means:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one knows how the consequences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof our actions will truly play out,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand try as we might, we will never\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebe the masters of our destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Chaos, who has been listening, as she\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealways does to each of her creations,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elaughs because what else does the Ancient Being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho Created Creation do when a small, impatient\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprimitive species that insists on quantifying everything\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etries to quantify the unfathomable by their small terms?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as she laughs, the cosmos ripples,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd whole galaxies fall apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEurynome: The Mother of All Things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a lesser known story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a genesis entirely woman-whispered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the shadows when we meet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein secret, plotting escapes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom unwanted marriages or to untangle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edarker devil-deemed desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey murmur, in the beginning of everything;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom the bones of Chaos, rose a girl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho built the universe, the stars,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe planets, all because she was looking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor a place to dance. 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