The ‘Goddess’ and contemporary spiritual values

Abstract

In this paper we are going to see how ancient goddesses became very popular with many female artists, musicians and writers. Some made use of the goddess to express their own personal emotions, others to express a link with the past, so to entrench a national identity with the prehistoric ancestors, while others used the symbol of the goddess as a significant political ramification for the feminist movement. I am not going to get into a detailed and at times controversial debate of how strong the symbol of the Mother Goddess became for feminists. My interest lies precisely on how certain female artists interpreted the use of the symbol of the Mother Goddess in their work and how it is linked with a primitivistic attitude.