Download or read book The Blind Gods written by Maurice Udom and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-07-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news that the gods of infidelity has struck Mama Titi to death for committing adultery brought the social life of women in Afon community to a halt. The women were aggressive and despondent. “How about the man, her lover? Sharia has come to the South!” Cried the women. Mama Koko, an ambitious good-looking women leader whose gorgeous figure could intimidate the most confident of the men, finds this male chauvinism deeply repugnant. She is poised to liberate the women of Afon from the tutelage of a traditional deity, Ekpo Nkagwo, the god of infidelity, which has been instituted by men to punish adulterous women only. But Ikwo, a sharp-tongued woman who sees men’s dominance as godly and invincible disassociates herself. She sheepishly discloses the plans by women to destroy the Craft Image of the god of infidelity to her husband, Chief Anwana -- a betrayal of the worst kind, which temporarily paralyses the women’s liberation moves. “Our problem is in ourselves”, regretted Inim, the virgin. Chief Anwana is unhappy. He summons the elders in Afon who consider the women’s suggestion to destroy the deity as a threat to their dominance of the women folks. The elders, in a unanimous decision, send the women’s leaders -- Mama Koko and Ntiense-- on exile. Yet Afon community was without excitement as Adiaha denied her husband, Akpan-utere, romance. Akpan-Utere, now drunk is forced to reveal the secrets on how to demystify the power of the god of infidelity. Mama Koko, who is on exile, is unrelenting in her bid to free the women. There is more to learn from the intrigue in the destruction of the blind gods to free Afon women.
Download or read book The Blind Gods written by Maurice Udom and published by . This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FBI's number one domestic anti-terrorist team led by Special Agent LeDon (Don) Kirkland is sent to investigate an explosion at a power relay station in the small New Mexico town of Dora Linda. There Don and his team uncover a plot of tremendous proportion planned by Ziad Hassen, alias the Falcon. The Falcon sends his teams of terrorists into the United States through Mexico, with their sole purpose to unleash a deadly virus into the population of the United States. Ziad was led to believe his parents were killed by American military units operating in the country of The Sudan. The Falcon's revenge is deadly. Don and his team command all of their training and experiences to stop these terrorist teams. The chase begins in the countryside of Alabama and extends into New Mexico. The final conflict plays out within the northern arid desert of Mexico. Along the way, numerous twists and turns keep you guessing as to the outcome of the Falcon's revenge.
Download or read book Holy Bible NIV written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Download or read book Blind God s Bluff written by Richard Lee Byers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ante up for the game of a lifetime! Billy Fox, a small-time gambler on a losing streak, has more than enough problems on his hands, owing too much money to some very impatient people. But when he rescues a blinded stranger from a swarm of bloodthirsty fairies, Billy's life gets a lot more complicated. . . . Seems the stranger is actually a powerful local god who is involved in a high-stakes Florida poker tournament against various supernatural challengers. And with his eyes currently missing, he needs somebody to take his place at the gaming table. Before Billy knows it, he finds himself playing against the likes of an ancient Egyptian mummy, an unbearably seductive succubus, a mechanical man, an insect queen, and a cannibalistic beast-man. And not just cards are in play; magic, bloodshed, and cheating are not only expected, they're encouraged. Everybody, including a sexy satyr-girl with her own cards up her sleeve, thinks that Billy is in way over his head. But Billy is a born gambler and, when the chips are down, he might just change his luck for good! Blind God's Bluff is an outrageously addictive urban fantasy that will keep you flipping pages until the very last hand.
Download or read book American Gods written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the same...
Download or read book How God Becomes Real written by T.M. Luhrmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.
Download or read book Godblind written by Anna Stephens and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mireces worship the bloodthirsty Red Gods. Exiled from Rilpor a thousand years ago, and left to suffer a harsh life in the cold mountains, a new Mireces king now plots an invasion of Rilpor’s thriving cities and fertile earth. Dom Templeson is a Watcher, a civilian warrior guarding Rilpor’s border. He is also the most powerful seer in generations, plagued with visions and prophecies. His people are devoted followers of the god of light and life, but Dom harbors deep secrets, which threaten to be exposed when Rillirin, an escaped Mireces slave, stumbles broken and bleeding into his village. Meanwhile, more and more of Rilpor’s most powerful figures are turning to the dark rituals and bloody sacrifices of the Red Gods, including the prince, who plots to wrest the throne from his dying father in the heart of the kingdom. Can Rillirin, with her inside knowledge of the Red Gods and her shocking ties to the Mireces King, help Rilpor win the coming war?
Download or read book Stories of Norse Gods and Heroes written by Annie Klingensmith and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travelling Without Gods written by Cassandra Atherton and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing. A tribute to Chris on the occasion of this eightieth birthday, in many ways it suggests an alternative cultural history of Australia since the 1950s. Containing biographical and critical pieces, poems (including new work by Chris) and essays that respond to his career Travelling without Gods takes account of the decades in which he has written. It illuminates, celebrates and critiques his work in its various contexts. Travelling without Gods also offers, importantly, a sample of ChrisWallace-Crabbe's unpublished journals, as well as photography that displays both his life and his relationship with the visual arts. The contributors are all established writers and artists who have had important links with Chris.
Download or read book Concerning the Election of Grace Or Of Gods Will Towards Man Commonly Called Predestination written by Jakob Böhme and published by . This book was released on 1655 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Odd Gods written by David Slavin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Percy Jackson in Odd Gods, the first book in a hilarious illustrated series about the most unlikely, unusual Gods ever to grace the halls of Mount Olympus Middle School. A Summer 2019 Kids' Indie Next Pick! Oddonis may be the son of Zeus, but he’s a little bit…odd for a God. He’s so odd, in fact, he’s not sure if he has any powers at all. And if that isn’t enough, his twin brother Adonis is the most popular, most athletic, and most otherworldly handsome God of them all. Oddonis’s future at Mount Olympus Middle isn’t looking bright, especially when he makes the last-minute decision to run against Adonis to be class president. With the help of his friends Mathena (Goddess of math and poultry), Germes (God of all things sniffling and snotty), Puneous (the smallest God of them all), and Gaseous (enough said?), Oddonis is determined to win the race, prove that his friends are as good as any Greek God, and maybe, just maybe, find out what his true powers really are. Read the hilarious new adventures of Oddonis and his friends from debut children’s authors David Slavin and Daniel Weitzman, filled with dozens of black-and-white illustrations by award-winning artist Adam Lane.
Download or read book Viking Gods and Heroes written by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 25 astonishing tales recall the dramatic creation of earth, sea, and sky and the chilling struggles between giants, trolls, and legendary Nordic heroes.
Download or read book Gods of the Ancient Northmen written by Georges Dumézil and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Peculiar Glory written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God has provided a way for all people, not just scholars, to know that the Bible is the Word of God. John Piper has devoted his life to showing us that the glory of God is object of the soul’s happiness. Now, his burden in this book is to demonstrate that this same glory is the ground of the mind’s certainty. God’s peculiar glory shines through his Word. The Spirit of God enlightens the eyes of our hearts. And in one self-authenticating sight, our minds are sure and our hearts are satisfied. Justified certainty and solid joy meet in the peculiar glory of God.
Download or read book Gods Arraignement of Hypocrites with an Inlargement concerning Gods decree in ordering sinne As likewise a defence of Mr Caluine against Bellarmine and of M Perkins against Arminius written by John YATES (B.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1615 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods and Heroes of the North written by Alice Zimmern and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Norse Gods and Their Myths written by Robert Blumetti and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erulian Robert Blumetti explores the nature of the Norse Gods and retells their myths in a contemporary rendition.
