Uncursing the dark

Paperback; xv + 166 pp. including a bibliography and an index. Contents: Section I: Blessingway -Blessingway revisited -A blessingway sing Section II: The seven gates -The stripping -'The Descent of Inanna to the Underworld: The Seven Gates' Section III: At bottom-Ereshkigal -At the bottom -'The Descent of Inanna to the Underworld: The Meeting with Ereshkigal' -"Descent to the butch of the realm" -Between woman analyst and the wounded girl child Section IV: Ascent from below -'The Descent of Inanna to the Underworld: The Ascent' -The Thesmophoria: a woman's ritual Section V: Beyond the underworld -Into new life -'Excerpts from Poems of the High Priestess Enheduanna' --From "The Exaltation of inanna" --From "Inanna and Ebeh" --From "Lady of Largest Heart" -Uncursing the dark: restoring the lost feminine -Forward into the past: reemergence of the archetypal feminine