Download or read book The Celtic Stone written by Nick Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Norman's dreams of being a commercial pilot are shattered when he crashes his light plane in central Australia and is badly wounded. His life hangs in the balance, a balance that is swayed by the intervention of an Aboriginal man. He leaves Chris with a mysterious and incongruous legacy, a Celtic cross made of stone.Partly blinded and in deep grief at no longer being able to fly, Chris finds his way to the inhospitable islands off the West Coast of Scotland where he seeks to unravel the secrets of the Celtic stone.A blind Hebridean woman, shunned by many in the local community, becomes his reluctant ally, along with a seven year old boy who is as wild as the storm tossed seas that surround the islands.But violence remains and Chris must overcome his grief to find answers to his questions. But the theat of murder lingers ...
Download or read book Legend of the Celtic Stone written by Michael R. Phillips and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tale about the roots of Scotland, from Celts, Bards, Druids, to Saints.
Download or read book A Circle of Stones written by Erynn Rowan Laurie and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Circle of Stones, originally published in 1995, offers a unique approach to meditation and Otherworld journeying in a Celtic Pagan context through the use of prayer beads as a focus for understanding early Gaelic cosmology and ways to journey through its three realms of land, sea, and sky. With chapters on ritual, altars, journeying, and communicating with deities, this short book has provided seekers with tools for their spiritual work for nearly twenty years. This new edition offers a much improved pronunciation guide for the Irish and Scots Gaelic in the text, and a new foreword that offers context for the book's historical place in the emergence of Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan spirituality.
Download or read book Legend of the Celtic Stone Caledonia Book 1 written by Michael Phillips and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a legendary stone is stolen from Westminster Abbey, Great Britain is set astir. Both the IRA and the Scottish nationalists are suspected. Amid the uproar, young politician Andrew Trentham embarks on a personal quest for answers. But the more he learns about his Scottish ancestry, the more questions he has.
Download or read book Legend of the Celtic Stone written by Michael R. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stones of Time written by Martin Brennan and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stones of Time presents one of the most dramatic archaeological detective stories of our time. Predating Stonehenge by at least a thousand years, the stone complexes of ancient Ireland have been extensively studied, yet have refused to give up their mystery. The most complete record of Irish megalithic art ever published.
Download or read book The White Stone written by Esther de Waal and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-02-20 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther de Waal is one of today's most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and the Welsh border landscape she had known for decades which inspired some of her greatest writing. In her characteristic style, she sees everything as a portal into a deeper spiritual understanding. She draws on the wealth of the Christian tradition, especially scripture and the monastic and Celtic spiritualities she knows so well, to help her navigate her way through not only the inevitable sense of loss that accompanies such change, but also to embrace the new possibilities it brings. The white stone of the title refers to a small pebble from the river that ran through her garden that she keeps in her pocket, but also strikes a note of hope referring to the new identity promised by God (Revelation 2.17). This is a book of simple, profound wisdom that will speak to many coping with change in their own lives.
Download or read book Of Mist and Stone written by John Two-Hawks and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel through a mystical portal into a forgotten world of celestial cycles, synchronistic rhythms, cosmic alignment and sacred vibrational power. The ancient Celts and Indigenous peoples are as two branches from the same tree; distinct, yet inextricably woven together with roots that reach deep into the mysteries of the earth.In this fascinating book, John Two-Hawks - who descends from both Celtic and Indigenous people himself - invites the reader to step through the veil of time, journey into the mist and glimpse the astonishing parallels and oneness of two ancient worlds from beyond the sacred stones.
Download or read book Irish Stone Walls written by Pat McAfee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number One Bestseller A unique history and 'how to' book on one of Ireland's most distinctive landscape features - the stone wall. The Irish countryside is a patchwork of over 250,000 miles of stone wall. Built from local stone according to the style of each region - dry stone in the West and the Mourne mountains or mortar elsewhere - these walls are an intrinsic part of the landscape. This unique guide by expert stone mason Pat McAfee covers the history of this ancient tradition, giving illustrated examples and step-by-step instructions on constructing, conserving and repairing stone walls of all types - whether dry stone or mortar. It includes: History of stone in Ireland How to build dry stone and mortar walls Basic and more advanced techniques Dos and don'ts of repair work Appropriate conservation methods
Download or read book Trinity Stone written by Jess Gray and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula Violet Kronborg might be a princess, but she feels more like a prisoner. Ever since her parents died in a shipwreck two years ago, she can't help but wonder if the rumors surrounding her family are true. Are they really cursed? After all, her cousin Tristan never fully recovered from the plague that swept through Elsinore. Her grandfather, King Eric Kronborg, seems to be getting more paranoid by the day. And after the incident on her last birthday, it's no secret the entirety of Elsinore thinks she's some sort of witch. Accidentally unleashing powers she didn't know she had, Tristan disappears-and her life is turned upside-down. To rescue her cousin, she accepts the help of a mysterious sea witch named Hydra and sets off on her adventure. Her journey tests her in ways she never imagined. She will stop at nothing to save her cousin. Secrets come to light and she quickly learns that there's more to Hydra-and her own family-than meets the eye. Rescuing Tristan means waking up a long-dormant evil in the deepest part of the ocean. Now Violet must learn the full extent of her powers before the most feared sea serpent of all time destroys her family, her home?and herself.
Download or read book The Singing Stone written by O. R. Melling and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Book of Celtic Patterns written by Lora Irish and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides historical overview of Celtic art; step-by-step instructions for creating twists, braids, and knotted lines; over 200 patterns; a guide to using color in your work; and a gallery of the author's art using Celtic knot work"--
Download or read book The Syrian Stone written by Nick Hawkes and published by Hawkesflight Media. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chelsea is part of an international team of archaeologists who are making the most of a tenuous cease-fire in the Syrian civil war to excavate and conserve the historic remains of the ancient kingdom of Ebla. The dramatic discovery of a new library of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing brings to the surface international tensions between Syria and Israel. Do the ancient tablets make reference to the ancient Jewish patriarchs living in Israel, or not? Chelsea finds herself caught in the middle of an international tug-of-war. Tensions increase when a small boy finds some tablets inscribed with two types of cuneiform writing that will enable archaeologists to translate the rest of the tablets. The boy and the tablets become the target of international interest. Chelsea must enlist the help of a shadowy character, Tony, for help. He has military training, but is now seeking a new life, one that will allow him to deal with his own demons. She must also call on the help of her colleague in the British Museum, Beanie, who is an IT genius. Chelsea must keep those she loves alive in an international squabble over who can rightfully lay claim to being the original and rightful occupants of Israel-and manage the greatest archaeological discovery of the century.
Download or read book Written in Stone written by Christopher Stevens and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half the world’s population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. A mother tongue first spoken in Stone Age times, on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago. It was so effective that it flourished for two thousand years. It was a language that spread from the shores of the Black Sea across almost all of Europe and much of Asia. It is the genetic basis of everything we speak and write today – the DNA of language. WRITTEN IN STONE combines detective work, mythology, ancient history, archaeology, the roots of society, technology and warfare, and the sheer fascination of words to explore that original mother tongue, sketching the connections woven throughout the immense vocabulary of English – with some surprising results. In snappy, lively and often very funny chapters, it uncovers the most influential and important words used by our Neolithic ancestors, and shows how they are still in constant use today – the building blocks of all our most common words and phrases.
Download or read book The Atlantis Stone written by Nicholas John Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stones of Adoration written by Christine Zucchelli and published by Collins Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Different beliefs, practices and rituals behind the notion of their magical powers and virtues are revealed. The situations in which people resorted to them are also examined: selecting chieftains, establishing the truth, curing sickness, and promoting fertility. In conclusion, the role of sacred stones in the religious and spiritual life of modern Ireland is described. This is a reminder of our spiritual past as some of these stones and monuments enter their fifth millennium."--Jacket.
Download or read book Carved Stones and Christianisation written by Anouk Busset and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early medieval period witnessed one of the deepest and most significant transformations of European societies and cultures with the process of Christianisation. The emergence and establishment of Christianity created a new dimension of power in society with an appeal to supernatural forces combined with an access to a broader transnational authority. Carved stones did not merely reflect these changes, but enabled them within northern societies with traditions of sculpture and epigraphic representations. This book looks at three datasets of monuments from Ireland, Scotland and Sweden using an innovative comparative framework to offer new insights on these monuments and the societies that erected them.Analysed through the three major themes of place, movement, and memory, the case studies are presented from a holistic perspective comprising the monument, their landscape settings and historical and archaeological contexts (when available). The results of this research demonstrate that by means of comparisons across national boundaries, new interpretations emerge on the use and functions of early medieval carved stones. The thematic approach adopted emphasises similarities and contrasts in a more efficient manner than a geographical approach, freed from historiographical biases within scholarly traditions of 'Celtic' or 'Scandinavian' archaeologies. Furthermore, a multi-scale analysis places the monuments within their local contexts but also within a broader narrative of Christianisation.
