Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches: Plants and Sexuality throughout Human History

by JohnM.Riddle (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $144.86

  Riddle argues that the pomegranate, mandrake, artemisia, and chaste tree plants substantially altered thedevelopment of medicine and fertility treatments.The herbs, once sacred to Inanna, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes, eventually came to be associated with darker forces, representing theinstruments of demons and witches.