To Hindus, she incarnates the great goddess Taleju, a version of Durga. Today there are just ten kumaris in Nepal, nine of them in the Kathmandu Valley. They’re still selected only from families ...

Great Goddesses will be released in hardback on 5 September by Ebury Press, and we can’t wait to add it to our collection of books by and about brilliant women. We and our 71 partners store and ...

From Hawaii, we’re going to hear a story about Pe-le, the great goddess of the Hawaiian Islands, and we’ll hear the story of the gifts of the White Buffalo Calf Woman from Native American ...