Download or read book Sungods and Sacrifice written by Philip Steele and published by Southwater Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allows children to explore the cultures and beliefs of the Maya, Aztec and Inca peoples--the fabulous MesoAmerica civilizations that flourished up to 1000 years ago.
Download or read book Sungod the most probable theory of our time written by Reg Griffin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 20 year study on myths, the bible and mystery's in history before science. Myths that are back to front, revealed. Why eye witness's in the bible, before science, made god responsible for good and bad. How and why the ozone opening in the 17th century shorted an ice age. History rewritten because of misinterpretation.
Download or read book The Sungod s Journey through the Netherworld written by Andreas Schweizer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. Here in the illustrations and texts of the Amduat, threats hidden in the depths of our soul become visible as concrete images, an analysis of which remains ever worthwhile: even in the guise of the evil, ominous, or dark side of godhead with which Schweizer concerns himself. The netherworld into which we descend underlies our own world. Creative energies of dreadful intensity are active there, and only death, to which all must surrender, makes us truly alive by offering us regeneration from the depths."—Erik Hornung, from the Foreword The Amduat (literally "that which is in the netherworld") tells the story of the nocturnal journey of Re, the Egyptian Sungod, through the netherworld from the time when the sun dies, after setting in the west, to its rebirth at sunrise in the east. In the middle of the night, in the profoundest depths of the netherworld, this resurrection is made possible by a mystical union of the sun with the mummified body of Osiris, god of the dead. This great mystery of the union between the freely moving soul of the Sungod, longing for the bright and boundless sky, with Osiris's corpse, which is irrevocably bound to the subterranean realm of the dead, evokes the renewal of all life and the restoration of totality. In the Egyptian belief system, the pharaohs and in later times all blessed dead embarked on this same "night-sea journey" after death, ultimately becoming one with Re and living forever. The vision of the afterlife elaborated in the Amduat, dating from around 1500 B.C.E., has been influential for millennia, providing the model for an entire genre of Egyptian literature, the Books of the Afterlife, which in turn endured into the Greco-Roman era. Its themes and images persisted into gnostic and alchemical texts and made their way into early Christian portrayals of the beyond. In The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld, Andreas Schweizer guides the reader through the Amduat, offering a psychological interpretation of its principal textual and iconographic elements. He is concerned with themes that run deep and wide in human experience, drawing on Jungian archetypes to find similar expression in many cultures worldwide: sleep as death; resurrection as reawakening or rebirth; and salvation or redemption, whether from original sin (as for Christians) or from the total annihilation of death (as for the ancient Egyptians).
Download or read book Smoke Signals for the Gods written by F. S. Naiden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal sacrifice has been critical to the study of ancient Mediterranean religions since the 18th century. Two leading views on sacrifice have dominated the subject: the psychological approach of Walter Burkert and the sociological one by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Marcel Detienne. These two perspectives have argued that the main feature of sacrifice is allaying feelings of guilt at the slaughter of sacrificial animals. Naiden redresses the omission of these salient features to show that animal sacrifice is an attempt to make contact with a divine being, and that it is so important for the worshippers that it becomes subject to regulations of unequaled extent and complexity.
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Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Aztec World written by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Download or read book The Outline of Knowledge The story of religion and philosophic thought The personal romance of history written by James Albert Richards and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sun Gods written by Jay Rubin and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in Seattle on the eve of World War II, Japanese-born Mitsuko falls for Tom, a widowed pastor, and becomes surrogate mother to his fair-haired American toddler, Bill. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor strains the newly formed family as U.S. government mandates and Tom’s growing discomfort with all things Japanese force Mitsuko and young Bill to leave Seattle and Tom behind for the Minidoka Internment Camp, unsure if they will ever return. Two decades later, memories of Minidoka and long-lost Mitsuko haunt Bill, sparking an arduous journey that leads him from Seattle’s International District to newly reconstructed Japan to find his Japanese mother and learn the truth about their shared past. Jay Rubin is one of the foremost English-language translators of Japanese literature. He is best known for his numerous translations of works by Haruki Murakami, Japan’s leading contemporary novelist, and the study Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. Most recently, he has translated the first two books of Murakami’s bestselling novel, 1Q84. In addition, Rubin’s Making Sense of Japanese remains one the widely used guides to Japanese language studies. Jay Rubin received his PhD in Japanese literature from the University of Chicago and taught at Harvard University and the University of Washington. He lives near Seattle with his wife.
Download or read book Sacrifice to the Gods written by Melusine Draco and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of propitiating or appeasing the gods is as old as humankind. And, it is just as much an integral part of pagan worship today as it was when our Mesolithic ancestors first began leaving their mark on the landscape - both to honour the gods in times of plenty and to appease them in times of trouble. For the tribes that were beginning to track their footsteps across the open plains of the vast continents, they left behind evidence of their 'holy places' - where they periodically stopped and gathered together in the act of honouring the Gods, the Ancestors and denizens of Otherworld, according to the light of their times ... and as their customs directed. What is the meaning of sacrifice? Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals or humans to a higher purpose - in particular divine beings - as an act of propitiation or worship. Needless to say, putting others ahead of ourselves requires sacrifice and in more modern parlance it is the act of offering or the giving up of something we would prefer to keep.
Download or read book Conceived in Sin written by George W Barclay Jr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Bible for the twenty-first century and requires a scholarly knowledge of science and metaphysics. "Earth Sciences will be taught in the third grade. Quantum Physics, General Relativity, and the Theory of Everything will be taught in the eighth grade. Religion will merge with science, philosophy, and metaphysics and be taught as Social Science." Dr. Amy Omikami, Professor of Astrophysics, USN. "Life was a Cosmological imperative. We all came from star stuff. Doctrinal seminaries are obsolete, absurd, and boring. Our university will present philosophy, religion, and science as a single mosaic of cognitive experience." Maria Tantalia, Present of Board, USN.
Download or read book The Persecution of Diocletian written by Arthur James Mason and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homicide written by Bal K. Jerath and published by Vkj Books International Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is an indispensable tool for scholars interested in homicide and related issues such as capital punishment". - David Lester, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. "It is the most complete compendium of homicide research I have every seen." - J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D., Assoc. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego. "This book is a very worthwhile one to have for anyone who is seriously interested in learning more about the field of homicide." - Kathleen M. Heide, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, Professor of Criminology." ..should be of particular interest to colleges and universities with studies in this respect of the social, psychological criminal, and health sciences." - Lyn Dennison, M. L. AHIP, Assistant Director for Library Operations, Greenblatt Library, Medical College of Georgia." ..a peerless compendium of the latest research on homicide." "I recommend this work to anyone who is involved in study of homicide." - Wade C. Meyers, M.D., Associate Professor and Chief Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Departments of Psychiatry, University of Florida." ..acquisition of this remarkable reference is highly recommended to schools, colleges and public libraries." - Docteur Michel Benezech, Chef de Service, Ancien Professeur Associe en Medecine Legal, Professeur Associe de Droit Prive, a l'Universite de Bordeau IV."Homicide, A Bibliography is a valuable book for everyone involved with teaching and research in the field of forensic sciences." - Niuvanniemen Sairaala, Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Kuapia, Niuvanniemen Hospital, FIN 70240, Kuopia, Finland.
Download or read book Nectar and Ambrosia written by Tamra Andrews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. Now, for the first time, the magic properties and uses of food by both mortals and immortals as represented in the world's myths and legends are brought together and explained in Nectar and Ambrosia. This A–Z volume is filled with an abundance of exotic lore and legend.
Download or read book Gods Sages and Kings written by David Frawley and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gods, Sages and Kings presents a remarkable accumulation of evidence pointing to the existence of a common spiritual culture in the ancient world from which present civilization may be more of a decline than an advance. The book is based upon new interpretation of the ancient Vedic teachings of India, and brings out many new insights from this unique source often neglected and misinterpreted in the West. In addition, it dicussses recent archaeological discoveries in India whose implications are now only beginning to emerge."--Publisher.
Download or read book Feeding Sharing and Devouring written by Peter Berger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few thorough ethnographic studies on Central Indian tribal communities exist, and the elaborate discussion on the cultural meanings of Indian food systems ignores these societies altogether. Food epitomizes the social for the Gadaba of Odisha. Feeding, sharing, and devouring refer to locally distinguished ritual domains, to different types of social relationships and alimentary ritual processes. In investigating the complex paths of ritual practices, this study aims to understand the interrelated fields of cosmology, social order, and economy of an Indian highland community.
Download or read book The Children of the Sun written by William James Perry and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1927 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "List of authorities": pages 503-526.
Download or read book Rivers of Life Or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in All Lands written by James George Roche Forlong and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
