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S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 5 Number 2, 2026)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
POETRY
“A Poem for the Dragon Mother” by Sanna Pöyhönen
“I, Baubo” by Kerryn Coombs-Valeontis
“for the Snake Goddess of Knossos” by Kerryn Coombs-Valeontis
“Hypatia of Alexandria” by Margaret R. Sáraco
“Providence” by Margaret R. Sáraco
ESSAYS
“The Dawn Goddess at Akrotiri: Hittite Influences at Xeste 3” by Andy Pochatko
“Hekate at the Threshold: Torchlight, Liminality, and Transformative Female Divinity in the Demeter–Persephone Myth” by Shelly Nixon
“Lived Thealogy: Immanence, Ritual, Nature, and Embodied Goddess Practice in a Contemporary Goddess Temple” by Shelly Nixon
“The Feminine Fertilizing Force: An Eco-Thealosophy of WomanEarth Parthenogenesis” by Jsabél B. Venerári
INVITED ESSAY
“Is Magu a Chinese Female Immortal? Exploring the Magoist Root in Early Daoist Records” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
BOOK REVIEWS
“Dilşa Deniz, Shamaran: The Neolithic Eternal Mother, Love and the Kurds” reviewed by Annalisa Derr, Ph.D.
“Christena Cleveland, God is a Black Woman” reviewed by Heather Gehron-Rice
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mago Academy’s Creatrix Studies Programs
CONTRIBUTORS
PURCHASE AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
[Editors’ Note: Mary Ann Beavis would like to acknowledge that The Zohar passage discussed in her article in S/HE 5.1 (2026) (“Goddesses in Comparison: Shekhinah, Kali, and the Woman of the Apocalypse”), and scholarship comparing it to images of Kali, were brought to her attention by an as yet unpublished article by Justin Jaron Lewis, tentatively titled ‘Shekhinah and Kali: Reading the Zohar through Mutiyettu’.”]
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S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 5 Number 1, 2026)
Published by Mago Books
June 10, 2026
ISSN 2693-9363
A total of 170 pages
Citation: S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies Volume 5 Number 1 (2026)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
POETRY
“Trapped Flesh” by Leonore Wilson
“Persephone” by Leonore Wilson
“Looking for Hekate” by Marna Hauk
ESSAYS
“The Goddess as Regeneratrix in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era” by Helen Benigni, Ph.D.
“Goddesses in Comparison: Shekhinah, Kali, and the Woman of the Apocalypse” by Mary Ann Beavis Ph.D.
PROGRAMMATIC ESSAY
“Why the World Needs Creatrix Studies?” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
BOOK REVIEWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mago Academy’s Creatrix Studies Programs
CONTRIBUTORS
PURCHASE AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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Mission Statement
S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies is a web-based, peer-reviewed international scholarly journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of Goddesses and the Female Divine in all religions, traditions, and cultures, to be ancient, historical, or contemporary. The journal is a multi-disciplinary forum for the publication of feminist scholarship in Goddess Studies and for discussion, comparison, and dialogue among scholars of differing feminist perspectives.