Many names - many shapes: the war goddess in early Irish literature - with reference to Indian texts: a study in the phenomenology of religion

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Catalogue identifier: klm000117
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KLM000117
Author or attribution: Ursula Bauer-Harsant
Record type: Thesis
Language: English
Date / edition: 1996
Source / repository: The University of Edinburgh
Access: Open access
Subjects: Recent Research Sources — 8 November 2026; Academic Research; Shaktism; Comparative Religion

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An Edinburgh doctoral thesis on early Irish war goddesses with a substantial Indian comparison. Chapter 8 on Kali occupies pp. 189–221; the comparative conclusion follows on pp. 222–244. The parallels are tentative, not evidence of a common origin or current devotional practice.

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Many names - many shapes: the war goddess in early Irish literature - with reference to Indian texts: a study in the phenomenology of religion

Ursula Bauer-Harsant. PhD, The University of Edinburgh, 1996. 260 PDF pages including preliminaries; numbered text ends p254.

KLM000117 | Doctoral thesis | English

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Ursula Bauer-Harsant. Many names - many shapes: the war goddess in early Irish literature - with reference to Indian texts: a study in the phenomenology of religion. PhD, The University of Edinburgh, 1996. 260 PDF pages including preliminaries; numbered text ends p254. https://era.ed.ac.uk/server/api/core/bitstreams/be1c6742-f05b-4827-8ce1-16eda2c09503/content

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