Download or read book The Cursed Dragon Book One of the Age of Acama Series written by Rachal M. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if dragons were real and among us right now in today's world - Apex predators of all colors, 70 feet long with magical blood that they wield masterfully to care for their food source and herd: the human race? These dragons aren't pets nor do they allow humans to ride on their backs. The Cursed Dragon brings together what other stories have not, European and Oriental Dragons, AND gives the answers to why and how they exist but mere humans don't know about them. This believable fiction covers all continents and weaves science, history, and real locations into the fabric of fantasy. The purple dragoness Kalara used to be an Acama, a leader of dragons titled after the first king of the Aztecs, Acamapichtli who was actually a green dragon posing as a human over 600 years ago. But now she is lost; living as a human without magic in Tulsa, Oklahoma under the care of a Medicine Woman called Annette. The humans say Kalara has amnesia but that isn't exactly right. She has been cursed with a magic spell of confusion and empty mind by a hidden enemy. Now its up to a blue dragon named Ravanan, who is a master at mind control spells, to find Kalara and fix her fragile mind. But while he and Kalara work hard to regain her magic and memories the enemy is growing and infecting the herd...
Download or read book The Cursed Dragon written by Rachal M. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cursed Dragon s Curse Book 1 written by S. L. Morgan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Best Selling Author S.L. Morgan comes a thrilling and spellbinding new novel that explores dragons and epic mystery. Dragon's Blood is Stronger than Royal Blood Beckoned five years into the future, Prince Alexander discovers a bleak dystopia in which his mother's magic slowly consumes her, dear allies have been turned, and his abilities are stripped from him. Royal lineages collide... Kira is the last of her kind, the heir to a kingdom that has descended into chaos. She alone carries the blood of dragons. When Alexander crashes into her world, the two must put their differences aside and form an alliance. Only by working together can they save both of their kingdoms from destruction. The path that leads to saving two worlds is a dangerous one and deception lurks around every corner. Will Alexander and Kira find the right allies in order to beat their adversaries-or are the myths true? Dragons do exist and will return to help Kira and Alexander battle the dark magic and evil all around them. Unfortunately, they will learn this is their only hope. Journey into a mystical realm where everything you read about...is true and very, very real!
Download or read book The Not Cursed Dragon written by Colette Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a dragon who hates dragons. The dragons murdered my family. The dragons stole me. The fae purchased me. My mates saved me. My mates imprisoned me. They think they're keeping me safe. They think they know what I need. What all delicate, feminine, gold dragons need. A comfortable den. A well-stocked pantry. Twenty children. That's not what this gold dragon needs. This gold dragon needs blood. This gold dragon needs revenge. The (Not) Cursed Dragon is book one of the Deadly Dragons Duet. It is a slow burn, reverse harem romance for readers 18+ TW: Flashbacks of abuse
Download or read book Cursed Dragon s Curse Book One written by S. L. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Best Selling Author S.L. Morgan comes a thrilling and spellbinding new novel that explores dragons and epic mystery.Born of royalty, both Kira's and Alexander's fates are linked. Dragon's blood runs wild through her veins while Alexander's supernatural abilities, bonds them in peril. Thrown into each other's paths, both warriors have an important decision to make, to trust each other-or fall mercy to a dark enemy.
Download or read book Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas written by Cilliers Breytenbach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work gives a survey of the rise and expansion of Christianity in ancient Lycaonia and adjacent areas, from Paul the Apostle until Amphilochius. It gives special attention to forms of charity, the reception of biblical tradition, the authority and leadership of the clergy, popular theology and forms of ascetic Christianity.
Download or read book Tantra in Practice written by David Gordon White and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, ranging from the seventh century to the present day, and representing the full range of Tantric experience--Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and even Islamic. Each text has been chosen and translated, often for the first time, by an international expert in the field who also provides detailed background material. Students of Asian religions and general readers alike will find the book rich and informative. The book includes plays, transcribed interviews, poetry, parodies, inscriptions, instructional texts, scriptures, philosophical conjectures, dreams, and astronomical speculations, each text illustrating one of the diverse traditions and practices of Tantra. Thus, the nineteenth-century Indian Buddhist Garland of Gems, a series of songs, warns against the illusion of appearance by referring to bees, yogurt, and the fire of Malaya Mountain; while fourteenth-century Chinese Buddhist manuscripts detail how to prosper through the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper by burning incense, making offerings to scriptures, and chanting incantations. In a transcribed conversation, a modern Hindu priest in Bengal candidly explains how he serves the black Goddess Kali and feeds temple skulls lentils, wine, or rice; a seventeenth-century Nepalese Hindu praise-poem hammered into the golden doors to the temple of the Goddess Taleju lists a king's faults and begs her forgiveness and grace. An introduction accompanies each text, identifying its period and genre, discussing the history and influence of the work, and identifying points of particular interest or difficulty. The first book to bring together texts from the entire range of Tantric phenomena, Tantra in Practice continues the Princeton Readings in Religions series. The breadth of work included, geographic areas spanned, and expert scholarship highlighting each piece serve to expand our understanding of what it means to practice Tantra.
Download or read book A Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages Composed from the Spanish Dictionaries of the Spanish Academy Terreros and Salv written by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Akame ga KILL ZERO Vol 1 written by Takahiro and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They believed that every time they took a life, they brought happiness to another... Before becoming Night Raid's deadliest ally, Akame was a young girl bought by the Empire and raised as an assassin whose sole purpose was to slaughter everything in her path. Because that's what makes people happy...right? Discover Akame's shocking past in Akame ga KILL! Zero, the prequel to the hit series Akame ga KILL!
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary written by John Lemprière and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This renowned dictionary contains detailed accounts of the various characters, mythical creatures, and places of Ancient Greek and Roman mythology. First published in 1788, Lemprière's Classical Dictionary introduces the reader to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman literature in a comprehensive and accessible way. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Joyful Strains written by Kent MacCarter and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with all shifts and turns in life, story matters. Joyful Strains collects 27 memoirs from writers\ describing their expatriation to Australia. Some have become household names, others quietly enrich their adopted home. All have had unique and fascinating experiences. These are stories about what they found, who they became and what they now think of Australia, providing entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians. 'From the affectionate to the bitter to the hilariously funny to the probingly intelligent, this is a collection not to be missed.' JM Coetzee
Download or read book Melodious Accord written by Alice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longest Memory written by Fred D'aguiar and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in taut, poetic language, THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century, and tells the tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write, in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and, finally, in trying to escape and join her in the free North. For his attempt to flee, he is whipped to death in front of his family, and this brutal event is the pivot around which the story evolves.
Download or read book Religions of Japan in Practice written by George J. Tanabe Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity. In the tradition of the Princeton Readings in Religions series, the collection presents documents (legends and miracle tales, hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons, reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic writings), most of which have been translated for the first time here, that serve to illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice. George Tanabe provides a lucid introduction to the "patterned confusion" of Japan's religious practices. He has ordered the anthology's forty-five readings under the categories of "Ethical Practices," "Ritual Practices," and "Institutional Practices," moving beyond the traditional classifications of chronology, religious traditions (Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc.), and sects, and illuminating the actual orientation of people who engage in religious practices. Within the anthology's three broad categories, subdivisions address the topics of social values, clerical and lay precepts, gods, spirits, rituals of realization, faith, court and emperor, sectarian founders, wizards, and heroes, orthopraxis and orthodoxy, and special places. Dating from the eighth through the twentieth centuries, the documents are revealed to be open to various and evolving interpretations, their meanings dependent not only on how they are placed in context but also on how individual researchers read them. Each text is preceded by an introductory explanation of the text's essence, written by its translator. Instructors and students will find these explications useful starting points for their encounters with the varied worlds of practice within which the texts interact with readers and changing contexts. Religions of Japan in Practice is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. It is an indispensable sourcebook for scholars, students, and general readers seeking engagement with the fertile "ordered disorder" of religious practice in Japan.
Download or read book Brata Joeda written by A B Cohen Stuart and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring account of the life and teachings of Rabbi Yehuda Ben Yakar, a beloved spiritual leader in the Jewish community of Amsterdam in the early 20th century. Written by A.B. Cohen Stuart, a noted scholar of Jewish history and tradition. Brings to life the rich cultural heritage of Amsterdam's Jewish community and its spiritual wisdom. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Alchemical Body written by David Gordon White and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] brilliant disquisition on . . . mostly unpublished texts for three allied systems of tantric thought and praxis (sexual, alchemical, and hatha yogic).” —The Journal of Asian Studies The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by one and the same people, and that they can be understood only when viewed together. White opens the way to a new and more comprehensive understanding of medieval Indian mysticism, within the broader context of south Asian Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Islam. “White proves a skillful guide in disentangling historical and theoretical complexities that have thus far bedeviled the study of these influential aspects of medieval Indian culture.” —Yoga World “Anyone seriously interested in finding out more about authentic tantra, original hatha yoga, embodied liberation . . . sacred sexuality, paranormal abilities, healing, and of course alchemy will find White’s extraordinary book as fascinating as any Tom Clancy thriller.” —Georg Feuerstein, Yoga Journal “Remarkable . . . a study of the language of mystic experience and expression—the multitudinous symbols, rituals, and doctrines of the medieval siddhis, yogis, and alchemists.” —Skeptic Meditations
Download or read book Harpsichord and Clavichord written by Igor Kipnis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.
