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Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess, Penguin 1993. Really comprehensive account and redefinition of the goddess from paleolith times to Henry Moore.

Biaggi, Cristina, Habitations of the Great Goddess, Knowledge, Ideas and Trends 1994. Scholarly study of the tombs of Malta and the northern islands of Scotland from the perspective of goddess worship that finds a link between these two widely separated places.

Gimbutas, Marija, The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe, Harper Collins 1991. Acclaimed archaeologist Gimbutas almost single-handedly brought the idea of goddess worship in the ancient world to both public and academic attention. A landmark study.

Graves, Robert, The White Goddess, Faber and Faber 1961. Moon goddess as poetic muse. A difficult read but worth the effort.

Larrington, Carolyne, (ed) The Feminist Companion to Mythology, Pandora Press 1992.

Streep, Peg, Sanctuaries of the Goddess, the Sacred Landscapes and Objects, Little Brown 1994. Beautiful photographs and commentary on sites of goddess worship from caves to the acropolis in Athens.

Trump, D.H. Malta, an archaeological guide, Progress Press, 1990. Guide to archaeological sites, some of them hard to find without this guide. The author was Curator of Archaeology at Malta's National Museum.

Zammit, Sir Themistocles and Karl Mayrhofer, The Prehistoric Temples of Malta and Gozo, 1995. Mayrhofer, an engineer, takes the descriptions of the temples of Zammit, Malta's pioneer archaeologist, and adds his own photos and drawings to provide a detailed guide to the ruins.