Download or read book Bonfires of the Gods written by Andrew Eseimokumo Oki and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bonfires of the Gods written by Andrew Eseimokumo Oki and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of violent outbursts over the creation of a new local government area by the then military regime, two warring tribes, the Ijaws and the Itsekiris with an age-old ax to grind come head to head in a bloody and brutal battle for land ownership throwing a once peaceful and lovable city into chaos. Set in March of 1997 in the war-torn city of Warri, Nigeria, BONFIRES OF THE GODS tell heartrending fictitious accounts of real-life experiences of people who had suffered great losses during the violent outrage. It tells a story of love and hate, of life and death, and of a quest for survival in one's own homeland.
Download or read book Bonfires of Culture written by Patricia Lopes Don and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of an early period that has remained too long understudied. Drawing on previously underutilized records of Inquisition proceedings, Don examines four of the most important trials of native leaders to uncover the Franciscans’ motivations for using the Inquisition and the indigenous response to it. She focuses on the consecutive impact of four trials—against nahualli Martín Ocelotl, an influential native priest; Andrés Mixcoatl, an advocate of open resistance to the Franciscans; Miguel Pochtecatl Tlaylotla, a guardian of native religious artifacts; and Don Carlos of Texcoco, a native chief burned at the stake for heresy. Don reveals the heart of Bishop Zumárraga’s methods of conducting the trials—including spectacular bonfires in which any native idols found in the possession of professed converts were destroyed. Don’s knowledge of the contemporary Spain that shaped the friars’ perspectives enables her to offer new understanding of the evolution of Franciscan attitudes toward evangelization. Bonfires of Culture reexamines important primary documents and offers a new perspective on a pivotal historical era.
Download or read book Past and Present written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sartor Resartus written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Mythology A to Z written by Jeremy Roberts and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for those with an interest in mythology or Japanese culture, this title covers: the early Japanese deities who created the world and the later deities who protect it; Kami, the spirits of all aspects of the living world; animals and mythological creatures; demons and bogeymen; and, shrines and other sacred places.
Download or read book The Morrigan written by Annette Maxberry and published by ICENI BOOKS. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women from different eras--the nineteenth century, mid-twentieth century, and late twentieth century--lead disturbingly parallel lives. All are a bit kinky, all have strange powers they can't explain or control, and all put themselves in harm's way through their attraction to dangerous men. What is their connection to one another? Can they discover who they are in time to save themselves from a nightmarish fate? Interweaving Celtic myth with a compelling mystery, "The Morrigan" will draw you into the lives of its memorable characters, inviting you to piece the puzzle together as the story moves toward its explosive climax.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by J. B. Bullen and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the fictious world in Hardy’s novels in relation to real places and Hardy’s real-life experiences. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this ‘partly real, partly dream-country’ was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born. J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing, and showing how and why he shaped them to serve the needs of his characters and plots. The locations may be natural or man-made, but they are rarely fantastic or imaginary. A few have been destroyed and some moved from their original site, but all of them actually existed, and we can still trace most of them on the ground today. Thomas Hardy: The World of his Novels is essential reading for students of literature and for all Hardy enthusiasts who want to gain new insights into his work. Praise for Thomas Hardy “Take pleasure in a book like this one, which skillfully interweaves its evocative accounts of Hardy’s life, of Dorset and Cornwall places, and of the stories unfolded from places in six of his novels (and a few poems) so that we vividly re-experience them. . . . The pleasures of this book (and they are real) come from its ability to re-enchant us in a way that is not un-Hardy-like, to draw us again into the intensely seen, heard, and felt world of the novels and poems. It set me to re-reading Hardy, with different eyes.” —Review 19
Download or read book Celtic Mythology and Religion written by Alexander Macbain and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report and Recommendations of the State Superintendent of Public Education to the Legislature of Mississippi for the Scholastic Years and written by Mississippi. State Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faceless Gods written by Sandeep Dahiya and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a long story, slowly moving like a broad river in its journey through the plains. It is just an effort to highlight some sober facts like the true meaning of nationalism, religion, politics, and humanism. The work has very sharp political connotations. But I would like to clarify that while espousing the cause of clean politics, I have taken very dagger-sharp cuts at certain political forces whose brand of politics results in reversing the basic meanings of religion and nationalism. But it is for sure that all such literary efforts from my side are just a battle cry against bad politics, rather than going against any particular political force. By having creative cuts at the razor-sharp edges of most of the political blocks in India, I have tried to carve out a straight-faced deity whom people have in mind when they envision their interests in the safe hands of the state.
Download or read book The Treasury written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasury written by Anthony Charles Deane and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Past and Present written by Thomas Carlyle and published by 北戴河出版. This book was released on 2016-10-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Carlyle's new poem, his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France, entitled the History of the French Revolution. In its first aspect it is a political tract, and since Burke, since Milton, we have had nothing to compare with it. It grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men, groups and disposes them with a master's mind, and, with a heart full of manly tenderness, offers his best counsel to his brothers. Obviously it is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics with such wisemen of all ranks and parties as are drawn to a scholar's house, until, such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts; and the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of his recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire to give some timely counsels, and to strip the worst mischiefs of their plausibility. It is a brave and just book, and not a semblance. "No new truth," say the critics on all sides.
Download or read book Dying for the Gods written by Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains "the nature of sacrifice in antiquity" and "different aspects of the subject: the notion of flesh for the gods; rites of fire and blood; the significance of defleshing heads and of skulls; suffocation ... ; the selection of victims and the evidence for the sacrifice of children." Author "puts forward some reasons for ritual murder and shows how" certain practices "illustrate the importance of place in the sacrificial rite" and "highlights the essential role of the priesthood in sacrificial murder."--Jacket.
Download or read book Past and Present and Chartism written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book god chaser written by Sari Krosinsky and published by Sari Krosinsky. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Sari Krosinsky’s debut collection penetrate the porous boundaries between the myth and the real, the mundane and the sublime, the human and the divine.
