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Libra Esoterica

The Cult of the Goddess Pattini

by Gananath Obeyesekere

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

The goddess Pattini is one of the most popular deities among the Buddhists of Sri Lanka and the Hindus of the east coast of the island.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Cults”. Retained metadata contains “deities” in the description and “Cults” in the subject metadata.

    • Cults· via Open Library
    • deities· in description
    • Cults· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 2 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Open Library record

1984University of Chicago PressEnglish
  • 9780226616025
  • 0226616029
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  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL2150474W
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