Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
    Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
    Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
    Audiobook10 hours

    Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

    Written by Serinity Young

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    3.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch.

    The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781541449824
    Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females

    Related to Women Who Fly

    Related audiobooks

    Religion & Spirituality For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Moon Mothering

      Dec 18, 2019

      Moon Mothering
      8 min read

    • Article

      How To Build A Goddess

      Jan 2, 2020

      How To Build A Goddess
      9 min read

    • Article

      Spells For Protection

      Mar 27, 2020

      Spells For Protection
      1 min read

    • Article

      'So Many Witches': A Craving For Magic And Meaning Drives Millennials To Spells, Potions And Rituals

      Oct 25, 2019

      Standing hand in hand, they form a circle around a smooth black cauldron, their voices setting off a reverberating hum as they repeat, "Omm, omm, ommm." Outside twilight is approaching. Inside the Malliway Bros. witchcraft shop in Rogers Park, candle

      4 min read

    • Article

      Greek Magical Papyri

      Mar 27, 2020

      Greek Magical Papyri
      1 min read

    • Article

      Beauty And The Beast

      Jan 11, 2020

      The Qissa—an oral storytelling tradition popular in South Asia—portrays sociological realities of the communities it represents: customs, practices, aspirations and fears. But Qissas are also a way of critiquing paradigms and oppressive institutions,

      1 min read

    • Article

      Dial N For Nature

      Mar 18, 2023

      Dial N For Nature
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Myths We Wear

      Mar 20, 2019

      The Myths We Wear
      11 min read

    • Article

      Here There Be Dragons

      May 19, 2022

      Here There Be Dragons
      6 min read

    • Article

      Gods Of The Etruscans

      Apr 23, 2020

      Gods Of The Etruscans
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ten Essential Books Inspired by Greek Mythology

      May 13, 2021

      I think this is why there is so much enthusiasm for mythological retellings: they let us escape to another world, but they ask questions that still matter to us today. The post Ten Essential Books Inspired by Greek Mythology appeared first on The Mil

      4 min read

    • Article

      “Medieval Christians Were Capable Of Imagining Goddess-like Beings That Looked Thoroughly Pagan”

      May 12, 2022

      Rhiannon Davies: Your new book. Queens of the Wild, explores four goddesses who evolved into hugely popular cultural figures in the Middle Ages. Can you introduce us to them? Ronald Hutton: First up, there’s the figure of Mother Nature, or Mother Ear

      9 min read

    • Article

      From Fact To Fiction

      Aug 5, 2021

      Claire Heywood on her new retelling of the Trojan War myth What inspired you to tell a story based in the world of Greek myth? I have loved myths since I was a child, but as I grew older and came to study them at university I realised that the women

      1 min read

    • Article

      Reading Rajni Perera

      Mar 5, 2018

      Since becoming attuned to Rajni Perera’s works, I have been made keenly aware that any attempt to read them means signing a pact and agreement to be simultaneously read myself. Attracted by her centring of the female body, one engages with Perera’s o

      7 min read

    • Article

      Rites Of The Ancient Mages

      Mar 27, 2020

      Rites Of The Ancient Mages
      4 min read

    • Article

      Demons, Djinns, And Devils

      Jan 5, 2024

      Demons, Djinns, And Devils
      11 min read

    • Article

      Orlando Spirit Of The Age

      Jun 11, 2019

      Orlando Spirit Of The Age
      5 min read

    • Article

      Classical Corner

      Nov 3, 2022

      Classical Corner
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Fallen

      Aug 31, 2021

      The Fallen
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Women Who Fly

    3.5/5

    7 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words