Download or read book fertilising the pomegranates in persephone s garden written by Finn Rose and published by epubli. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: following the story of a medieval king who falls in battle and makes their way through the underworld back up to their kingdom. poems that barely count as poems and illustrations that barely count as such. thoughts that arose during quarantine and while imagining a life and beyond that is more magical than the one we are currently stuck in. a lot of drama dirt and death in this one, be sure to read the trigger warnings at the beginning and proceed with caution.
Download or read book Be a little mythological will you Greek Mythology written by Hilal ATAKAN and published by Hilal ATAKAN. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready for an exciting mythological adventure? This book opens the door to the rich world of ancient Greek mythology. Filled with epic stories of gods, heroes, monsters and humans, this book takes readers on a journey through time. From Prometheus stealing fire to Perseus defeating Medusa, from Orpheus' scarlet fever to Hercules' twelve labors, each page invites readers on a unique adventure. These stories will take you deep into the depths of human nature, while at the same time allowing you to discover the mysteries of the universe. The myths present human emotions in their purest form, woven with love, betrayal, triumph and tragedy. Discover the fascinating world of mythology and get lost in the magical atmosphere of this time from thousands of years ago to the present day with the book “Will You Be a Little Mythological? Greek Mythology”.
Download or read book Persephone s Quest written by Robert Gordon Wasson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within."
Download or read book The Myth of Persephone in Girls Fantasy Literature written by Holly Blackford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker and Mouse King, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. The story of the young goddess’s separation from her mother and abduction into the underworld is, at root, an expression of ambivalence about female development, expressed in the various Neverlands through which female protagonists cycle and negotiate a partial return to earth. The myth conveys the role of female development in the perpetuation and renewal of humankind, coordinating natural and cultural orders through a hieros gamos (fertility coupling) rite. Meanwhile, popular novels such as Twilight and Coraline are paradoxically fresh because they recycle goddesses from myths as old as the seasons. With this book, Blackford offers a consideration of how literature for the young squares with broader canons, how classics flexibly and uniquely speak through novels that enjoy broad appeal, and how female traditions are embedded in novels by both men and women.
Download or read book Demeter and Persephone written by Tamara Agha-Jaffar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter has been used most often to explain the cycle of the seasons. However, a closer examination will reveal insights on living and dying, loss and reconciliation, and suffering and healing. This work demostrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter. The following chapters discuss the symbolism of critical objects, the role of female mentoring, the role of Hades and the meaning of the underworld, the subject of rape, and the masculinist perspective presented by Zeus and Helios, and derive lessons useful for healing and knowledge. The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.
Download or read book Persephone s Orchard written by Molly Ringle and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek gods never actually existed. Did they? Sophie Darrow finds she was wrong about that assumption when she's pulled into the spirit realm, complete with an Underworld, on her first day at college. Adrian, the mysterious young man who brought her there, simply wants her to taste a pomegranate. Soon, though she returns to her regular life, her mind begins exploding with dreams and memories of ancient times; of a love between two Greeks named Persephone and Hades. But lethal danger has always surrounded the immortals, and now that she's tainted with the Underworld's magic, that danger is drawing closer to Sophie. Molly Ringle's growing list of other successful titles include: The Chrysomelia Stories 1. Persephone's Orchard 2. Underworld's Daughter 3. Immortal's Spring The Goblins of Bellwater All the Better Part of Me Lava Red Feather Blue Sage and King
Download or read book The Falcon written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Song of Wings written by Kris Faryn and published by Nimbus Brands Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hunt dark creatures. He hunts Sirens like me. We used to be in love… The hunter has become the hunted. The Council of the Gods roped us in to fighting for them, ridding the human world of creatures that belong behind the veil. But now? They've asked too much. Kill my true love turned Siren Hunter. Nope. No can do. Not happening. Meanwhile, my Siren family is growing, I'm forced to work with someone who already betrayed me once, and the gods insist on using me and those I love as disposable chess pieces. It comes down to this. Decide who to trust. Who to save. And who to let die. The quest continues in this dark fantasy series described as "page-turning greatness." Fans of Holly Black and Tahereh Mafi will love Song of Wings, Book 2 of The Siren's Call series!
Download or read book Persephone s Problem written by Samantha Blackwood and published by Barghest Press Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wayward goddess with a problem lover, a treacherous Fae prince, and a surprise visit from long lost family members nixes Alex's wish for a quiet life ... and propels her into a battle for the Fae throne that could destroy the realm. Persephone knew her affair with the Fae prince wasn’t a good idea, but she’s a sucker for a handsome face and polite manners. Now the prince wants to leverage her powerful magic to help him steal his father’s throne. Her affair has angered Danu, goddess of the Fae, and that spells divine trouble. Persephone calls in a favor and leaves the brewing mess in Alex’s lap. When a trio of dangerous goddesses arrive at the San Antonio Crossroads for a surprise visit, Alex soon discovers the Fates are not her only long-lost divine relatives—and that the magic she inherited from her Titan grandfather is vastly more dangerous than anyone suspected ... even the gods. Alex must use every scrap of her abysmal diplomacy skills and new-found death magic to wrangle her trio of crazy cousins, referee Persephone’s divine dispute, and prevent a bloody war for the Fae throne before it spills over into the Crossroads and endangers her heart family ... and everyone else in its path. * This book is the second in The Crossroads Keeper series. Greek gods of myth and legend mingle with the supernatural creatures of urban fantasy in this modern tale filled with danger, humor, and found-family ties.
Download or read book Daisy Bold Beautiful written by Ellie Collins and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D.J. and her dad moved far from the small town and only home she ever knew. Now she’s starting middle school in the city with kids she’s never met. She tries to make friends, but they all appear to be slaves to screen time. D.J. just likes to garden, nurturing plants, watching them grow and thrive. It seems she’ll never find a way to fit in, but then she awakens in a gorgeous garden where she meets Persephone, Goddess of Spring. She must be dreaming; her new friend can’t possibly be real—and what could she know about getting along with gamers? D.J. really needs some ideas, or she might never find her own place in a complicated world. Daisy, Bold & Beautiful is the debut novel of middle-schooler Ellie Collins, daughter of award-winning author Stephanie Collins. Boys and girls alike will appreciate Ellie’s keen eye for the challenges of growing up that she and her friends must face. Discover the wonderful writing of Ellie now, then follow her to learn about her writing and more books to come.
Download or read book The Home maker written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel describes the problems of a family in which husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles that they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the ideal housekeeper, while her husband, Lester is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed; Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. The changes that take place between husband and wife and between parents and children are handled in a contemporary manner.
Download or read book Persephone written by Sally Pomme Clayton and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retell the ancient Greek myth explaning the origin of the seasons.
Download or read book The Spenser Encyclopedia written by A.C. Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 2495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.
Download or read book American Chica written by Marie Arana and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who “was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An American Chica.” Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru—earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology—and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana’s historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling grandmother, “clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage.” But most important are Arana’s parents: he a brilliant engineer, she a gifted musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail.
Download or read book They Were Sisters written by Dorothy Whipple and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a story of three sisters who's choice of husband dictates whether they have homes, and whether, in their homes, they will be allowed to flourish, be tamed or repressed.
Download or read book The Garden of Proserpine written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original working manuscript of Swinburne's poem "The garden of Proserpine". Bound with the manuscript pages are a printed version of the poem from an unknown published edition (pages numbered 189-192). Formerly owned by the book collector and literary forger Harry Buxton Forman. A note from Forman is written on a blank leaf preceding the manuscript: The Garden of Proserpine, perhaps the loveliest lyric poem Swinburne ever wrote, was set up from this autograph manuscript when the poem took its place in the renowned volume known as Poems and Ballads, issued in the Autumn of 1866, immediately withdrawn under pressure by Mr. Moxon, and speedily re-issued by John Camden Hotten. The calligraphy is more characteristic than excellent. The cancellings and changes, however, are of considerable interest.
Download or read book Friendly Fire written by Zoe Cannon and published by Z.J. Cannon. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mal is back—but nothing is the same. Ciara won’t look her in the eye. Kimmy is acting like Mal is going to murder them all in their beds. Ginevra is too friendly all of a sudden. And in the wake of Mal’s crimes against Persephone’s temple, relations between Hades and Persephone are growing more strained by the day. When an unexpected attack strikes at the heart of the temple, the rift between Hades and his allies widens—and the bonds between Hades’s operatives begin to fracture. The deeper Mal digs, the less she understands her enigmatic enemy, and the more she discovers that everyone has something to hide… including her. As she tries to outthink a foe whose actions make no sense, she doesn’t know who she can trust anymore—or who will make it out alive.
