Download or read book The Lazuli Brotherhood written by Peter F Damsberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book of the Lazuli Series. Arvad and the New Army join with other peoples and forces whose leaders also have a connection to Hanno the mysterious traveller. All to soon they are pitted against not one fearsome enemy but two. Neither can they rely on all of their allies. What is the power behind the Lazuli Stones?
Download or read book The Lazuli Brotherhood written by Peter Damsberg and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two of the Lazuli Trilogy - Fantasy Novels - Arvad and the New Army join with other peoples and forces whose leaders also have a connection to Hanno the mysterious traveller. And all too soon they are pitted against not one fearsome enemy, but two. Neither can they rely on all of their allies. Behind all of this what is the power behind the Lazuli Stones?
Download or read book The Lazuli Crown written by Peter F Damsberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book three: The final part of the Lazuli Trilogy. Arvad and the Brotherhood reach their destination and their destiny as they face their final foe.
Download or read book The Lazuli Inheritance written by Peter F Damsberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth in the Lazuli Series. After the defeat of the Zithra and a period of rest Arvad and Borkli return to Albia with some of their old friends. But all is not what it seems and they are once again fighting for survival
Download or read book Brotherhood of Kings written by Amanda H. Podany and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day. Allowing them to speak in their own words, Podany reveals how these leaders and their ambassadors devised a remarkably sophisticated system of diplomacy and trade. What the kings forged, as they saw it, was a relationship of friends-brothers-across hundreds of miles. Over centuries they worked out ways for their ambassadors to travel safely to one another's capitals, they created formal rules of interaction and ways to work out disagreements, they agreed to treaties and abided by them, and their efforts had paid off with the exchange of luxury goods that each country wanted from the other. Tied to one another through peace treaties and powerful obligations, they were also often bound together as in-laws, as a result of marrying one another's daughters. These rulers had almost never met one another in person, but they felt a strong connection--a real brotherhood--which gradually made wars between them less common. Indeed, any one of the great powers of the time could have tried to take over the others through warfare, but diplomacy usually prevailed and provided a respite from bloodshed. Instead of fighting, the kings learned from one another, and cooperated in peace. A remarkable account of a pivotal moment in world history--the establishment of international diplomacy thousands of years before the United Nations--Brotherhood of Kings offers a vibrantly written history of the region often known as the "cradle of civilization."
Download or read book The Lazuli Stone written by Peter F Damsberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arvad lives in a sheltered society. Anyone who leaves is considered an outcast. But people have escaped before and Arvad yearns to see the outside world and he carries with him his birthstone as did an absconder before him.
Download or read book Kickback written by Peter F Damsberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DI Dag Meldel is on holiday. A rare thing. He is in London. The disappearance of a Brazilian football player in the Capital who was on his way to join Dag's local football team in Norway hits the headlines. Dag's boss tells him he is to liaise with the British police in tracking down the missing sportsman. But as Dag knows from previous experience a missing person is never a simple case. And this one leads to the story to Brazil, Norway and England and the murder of two people. Would the footballer and his friend be the next? And why was this soccer player's transfer of such importance?
Download or read book Pre Raphaelitism and the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood written by William Holman Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Lost Souls written by Peter F Damsberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the edge of reality which impinge upon the reality of the present. Mysteries, murders, and fantastic tales.
Download or read book A Mythological Approach to Exploring the Origins of Chinese Civilization written by Shuxian Ye and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the lion the symbol of China? Or should it be the dragon or the phoenix? This book makes a provocative interpretation of the Chinese ancient totems such as the bear and the owl. Taking a mythological approach, it explores the origin of Chinese civilization using the quadruple evidence method, which integrates ancient and unearthed literature, oral transmission, and archeological objects and graphs. It testifies to the authenticity of unresolved ancient myths and legends from the origins of Chinese Jade Ware (6200BC-5400 BC) to the names of the Yellow Emperor (2698–2598 BC) and the legends from the Xia (2010BC-1600BC), Shang (1600BC-046BC), Zhou (1046BC-771BC), and Qin (221BC-206BC) Dynasties. The book lays the foundation for a reconstruction of Chinese Mythistory. With well over 200 photographs of historic artifacts, the book appeals to both researchers and general readers.
Download or read book Lazuli The Fall of Albia written by Peter F Damsberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lazuli saga moves on a generation. Arvad's son Ardan has become a trader, a Merchant Venturer with his own ship. He decides to travel further North than other traders have done before him. But, as he moves North a race form the far North are moving South, attacking, ransacking and destroying cities as they go. He fights a battle against some of their ships and takes one of their leaders as prisoner. But that does not stop the onward progress of the barbarian tribe. Soon they have taken some of the closest cities and allies of Albia. The barbarians target id Albia itself and its wealth and riches. The Brotherhood is far away and it is up to Borkli to decide upon Albia's future.
Download or read book Blessings of the Tanakh written by Ken Bazyn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since God called Abram from Ur, he has conveyed his revelation and displayed his splendors to the chosen Hebrew people. Bazyn's introduction incorporates fictional first-person recreations of Cain's murder of Abel and Rachel's theft of the household idols. His poems investigate such pivotal moments as Jacob's wrestling with an angel; the Israelites' faint-heartedness and desire to return to Egypt in the wilderness; the rise of monarchy and its alarming consequences; the prophet Elijah's troubled relationship with King Ahab; Jonah's futile flight from a call to preach repentance in Nineveh. Not afraid to tackle complex, difficult-to-resolve theological issues, Bazyn weighs in on faith, judgment, idolatry, free will, suffering, repentance, the coming Messiah, and resurrection. His taut, condensed style, thick with intriguing metaphors, probes the believer's conduct and motivation: Why does God at times seem so distant and hidden? What does it feel like to be persecuted? To aid in discerning each poem's meaning, Bazyn has added allusive, revelatory 35mm black-and-white photographs. Whether as a Jew, a Christian, or an unbeliever who is curious about the Tanakh's significance, you are drawn into this net of words, cut to the quick by standing naked and exposed before your maker like Job.
Download or read book Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A S Byatt s Possession and in Mythology written by Gillian M. E. Alban and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws parallels with goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar or Inanna, Isis, and Asherah. Mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and tellingly converted into the demon of patriarchal accounts, as seen in the examples of Lilith, Medusa, Scylla, and the serpent in the Garden. Alban deconstructs part of Genesis, including the roles of Adam and Eve and Cain's crime, and illuminates the Old Testament worship of the goddess Asherah alongside the male Yahweh. A forceful exploration of literature, history, and myth, this study sweeps away limiting assumptions about the female sex. Melusine the Serpent Goddess restores the dignity acknowledged to women of old, making a forceful statement about the power and creativity of women.
Download or read book Civilization Before Greece and Rome written by H. W. F. Saggs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two hundred years, however, archaeological discoveries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, and the Indus Valley have revealed that rich cultures existed in these regions some two thousand years before the Greco-Roman era. In this fascinating work, H.W.F Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the more notable achievements of these societies, showing how much the ancient peoples of the Near and Middle East have influenced the patterns of our daily lives. Saggs discussesthe the invention of writing, tracing it from the earliest pictograms (designed for account-keeping) to the Phoenician alphabet, the source of the Greek and all European alphabets. He investigates teh curricula, teaching methods, and values of the schools from which scribes graduated. Analyzing the provisions of some of the law codes, he illustrates the operation of international law and the international trade that it made possible. Saggs highlights the creative ways that these ancient peoples used their natural resources, describing the vast works in stone created by the Egyptians, the development of technology in bronze and iron, and the introduction of useful plants into regions outside their natural habitat. In chapters on mathematics, astronomy, and medicine, he offers interesting explanations about how modern calculations of time derive from the ancient world, how the Egyptians practiced scientific surgery, and how the Babylonians used algebra. The book concludes with a discussion of ancient religion, showing its evolution from the most primitive forms toward monotheism.
Download or read book The Arcturus Code written by Peter F Damsberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body of a man is found shot in a remote Norwegian village. D.I. Dag Paulsen Meldel is sent to investigate. But the body disappears. The man is a mystery. There was no evidence as to who he was. A villager has gone missing and he may hold the key to the mystery. A mystery that involves E14, Norwegian Military Intelligence. The villager is registered as a missing person so Dag continues his investigation. But his work coincides with that of the intelligence operatives.
Download or read book How the World Made the West written by Josephine Quinn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West is, and always has been, truly global. “Superb, refreshing, and full of delights, this is world history at its best.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity In How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the “civilizational thinking” regarding the origins of Western culture—that is, the idea that civilizations arose separately and distinctly from one another. Rather, she locates the roots of the modern West in everything from the law codes of Babylon, Assyrian irrigation, and the Phoenician art of sail to Indian literature, Arabic scholarship, and the metalworking riders of the Steppe, to name just a few examples. According to Quinn, reducing the backstory of the modern West to a narrative that focuses on Greece and Rome impoverishes our view of the past. This understanding of history would have made no sense to the ancient Greeks and Romans themselves, who understood and discussed their own connections to and borrowings from others. They consistently presented their own culture as the result of contact and exchange. Quinn builds on the writings they left behind with rich analyses of other ancient literary sources like the epic of Gilgamesh, holy texts, and newly discovered records revealing details of everyday life. A work of breathtaking scholarship, How the World Made the West also draws on the material culture of the times in art and artifacts as well as findings from the latest scientific advances in carbon dating and human genetics to thoroughly debunk the myth of the modern West as a self-made miracle. In lively prose and with bracing clarity, as well as through vivid maps and color illustrations, How the World Made the West challenges the stories the West continues to tell about itself. It redefines our understanding of the Western self and civilization in the cosmopolitan world of today.
Download or read book Sumerian Mythology written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
