Download or read book Fire and Rain Answering the Rune s Call written by Sara Annon and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series rises out of my personal journey with the Runes that began during a Mask Dance workshop in Northern Germany, the birthplace of the runes. During the week I spent in a lovely seminar house secluded in among the trees bordering the heather of the Lunebergerheide, I found myself tasked with telling the story of the Runes as one of creation, not destruction. We used shamanic drumming and rattling to drive the visionary state and a specific body posture to guide our experience. My time was spent deep in a philosophical discussion with the energetic field of the Runes. It was impressed on me that the two fundamental distortions in the historical practice of Runes were the suppression of sexual energy in Christianity and the Germanic tribe's practice of ritual killing to gain personal power. I was shown how this combination inherently leads to atrocities. My first step was to seek out any creation stories I could find that were related to the runes. Somewhat to my surprise, I did not find any direct or obvious correlations between the runes names and the stories. In fact, the use of the runes as an alphabet turned out to be driven by the Christian Church. Then I looked into the current practice of Rune Stances and found their origins were both recent and suspect. Along the way, I had to admit that if the creation story of the runes was readily accessible, they would not have had to grab hold of an ignorant mixed-blood New Mexican to tell their tale. What I had to offer was my own idiosyncratic view of the situation. Since I had experience with ecstatic trance postures, I wondered if rune shapes corresponded with ancient ecstatic body postures. Once I turned towards the much older and more mysterious visionary roots of the Runes, my path to a runic story of creation began to open. I ended up with a mosaic of a sacred World Tree made of ancient bits and pieces. I hope they can open creative experiential doors for those drawn to work in the runic realms. Keywords: Ancestry, Creation Myths, Ecstatic Trance Postures, Epigenetics, Rune Stances, Runes, Sacred Speech, World Tree, Shamanism, Sustainable

Download or read book The L G H part 2 Runes and ruins written by Kendra Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world we live in today, was once a world ruled and cultivated by different people. This story is part two of three which focusses on the witches trying to get back into their British past, using ley lines, rods and runes. However all is not for the good as you will find out!

Download or read book Fire in the Mountain written by G.W. Osborne and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eldavain has been ruled by a generation of darkness. Lord Revvik oversees all from his place in the Black Tower, keeping his people obedient and without magic thanks to the cruel hand of his dark knights and their wretched wraiths. In the small, outlying town of Tiggil, young Besrymir grows up with the sea outside his window. How he came to be there, what the two crystals on his forearms are, and what he is—aside from half elf—remains a mystery to him. In his search for answers, he finds sanctuary and knowledge in the mountain kingdom of the stone giants. Here he attends Stone Academy and begins to uncover some of his own unique abilities, leaving him with even more questions than when he arrived. The resistance is finally gathering momentum as Besrymir accepts his place among their ranks. Has he learned enough to make a difference? Or will he be a beacon for dark forces to destroy everything and everyone he loves?

Download or read book The Call of the Rift Flight written by Jae Waller and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback! An intricately lush and well-crafted new fantasy that deserves (and demands) a sequel.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A mature choice for those who love high fantasy and magical realism.” — School Library Journal A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller’s stunning debut fantasy “Waller’s world-building is impressive . . . While the magical and romantic elements of Waller’s story are most likely to hook teen readers, it’s the commentary on colonized cultures that really sets this novel apart from other YA fantasy tales.” — Quill & Quire Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore — not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer. Then the air spirit Suriel, long thought dormant, resurrects a war. For Kateiko, protecting other tribes in her confederacy is atonement. For Tiernan, war is a return to the military life he’s desperate to forget. Leaving Tiernan means losing the one man Kateiko trusts. Staying with him means abandoning colonists to a death sentence. In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what’s worth dying — or killing — for.

Download or read book Time Dancers written by Steve Cash and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Cash created “an absorbing [and] intriguing saga” (The San Diego Union-Tribune) in his debut novel, The Meq. Outwardly indistinguishable from human beings, but with abilities no human can claim, the Meq search for their lost history and face a mysterious prophesied reckoning. . . . It has been thirty-eight years since Zianno—known as Z—turned twelve. In appearance, he has not aged a day. Like all Meq, Z has become accustomed to a near immortal existence, possessing an uncanny ability to recuperate from injury and resist disease. Like only four others of his kind, he holds one of the fabled Stones, the Stone of Dreams. These bearers believe it is their destiny to guide the Meq toward and through the Remembering, where it is said that they will recall their long-forgotten origins and purpose. But the rogue Meq assassin called the Fleur-du-Mal threatens their efforts and their lives. Pursuing rumors of a lost Sixth Stone, he is intent on finding the legendary talisman and eliminating anyone, Meq or human, who stands in the way. Z and his allies—Opari, Sailor, Geaxi, Nova, Ray, Mowsel, Carolina, Jack, and others—embark on a desperate quest spanning decades and continents to track down the stone before their lethal adversary gets to it first. Along the way, every belief they have about themselves will be challenged and shaken—and a new, even deadlier enemy will arise.

Download or read book Company of Liars written by Karen Maitland and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them. Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group’s leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all—propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming. Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction. Praise for Company of Liars “[Maitland] brings to life a medieval England of muddy streets and half-naked children fighting each other for pieces of dog dung to sell to the tanners, as sheep-stealers swing purple-faced from the gallows. . . . She neatly catches the spirit of primitive superstition that governed every aspect of 14th century life and then rolls on with it for her own story-telling ends. . . . Company of Liars is a richly evocative page-turner which brings to life a lost and terrible period of British history, with a disturbing final twist worthy of a master of the spine-tingler, such as Henry James.”—Daily Express (UK) “Transports readers back to the days of the Black Death . . . Paying homage to The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales, this is a gripping read. . . . As a reader you are taken as close to the plague as you would ever wish to go.”—Bookseller

Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Secrets and Spies written by Elizabeth A. Patterson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haley Steel’s dreams are finally coming true. Now married to the handsome fairy King Valian, she can hardly wait to begin her new life as queen of the Woodland realm. But just as the newlyweds are ready to depart for their honeymoon, urgent news arrives that the evil entity Molock the Merciless and its army are on the move, preparing to destroy the Manwan fairies. Forced to evacuate the city, the royal couple sends Roan’s citizens through a portal to the human side for protection while they set out to meet the enemy disguised as vagabonds with a small band of guardians and witches. As the group ventures toward the unknown and discovers new allies, Haley’s twin, Henry, and his fiancée, fairy Princess Sersha, remain behind in the small town of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Their desire is simple: to blend in on the human side and find purpose in their new environment. But Bonners Ferry may not be as safe as they think. In this continuing fantasy series, humans and fairies are tested once more as they must learn to coexist and trust each other in a strange new world.

Download or read book Northern Mythology written by Tim Rayborn and published by Cider Mill Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Norse Mythology written by Neil Gaiman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable.… Gaiman has provided an enchanting contemporary interpretation of the Viking ethos.”—Lisa L. Hannett, Atlantic Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki—son of a giant—blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose, these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.

Download or read book Eve and Her Evil Stepbrothers 4 The Power of Eve Why Choose Paranormal Romance written by Zoe Marsh and published by Zoe Marsh. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve gets to experience magic for the first time, both the good and the very bad. Now that she's vulnerable to magic, old enemies see new opportunities. The Westing brothers are just as determined to protect her as ever, even from each other. But it might turn out that Eve is a bigger threat to them.

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Download or read book The Shadowbound Knight written by Corinne M. Knight and published by Corinne M Knight. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casimir Thorne, marked for death by the Order of the Dragon, emerges from the ashes of his sanctuary, vowing vengeance. Once an esteemed knight of the Order, Casimir’s fusion with a demonic sword has made him the hunted. His refuge at the Hajun temple, a makeshift family among the serene mountainside, is brutally destroyed, igniting a relentless thirst for retribution. Seeking allies in his war against tyranny, Casimir finds himself at Roslyn Academy, where Vlad Dracula and Lucien de Winter welcome him, recognising the potential of his cursed heritage. Together, they forge a daring alliance, rallying supernatural entities against the Order’s reign of terror. With Casimir’s demonic sword as their beacon of hope, they strategise to dismantle the Order’s leadership once and for all. But unity brings vulnerability. Their congregation at the academy might just be the opportunity the Order has been waiting for—a chance to annihilate the resistance in one fell swoop. The stakes are higher than ever. Will Casimir and his allies herald a new dawn of freedom, or will their assembly mark the end of their fight, crushed by the Order’s definitive strike? The Shadowbound Knight is the sixth Supernatural Paranormal Fantasy suspense novella in the Of Knights and Monsters series, set in Hajun Temple (Japan), Roslyn Academy (England, UK), and various secret European locations and features secret societies, supernatural encounters, thrilling adventures, plot twists, and a stark contrast between light and dark, alongside themes of love, betrayal, and redemption.

Download or read book The Keep of Fire written by Mark Anthony and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an exciting new master of fantasy comes the second novel of an epic tale filled with dangerous magic, dark mystery, and unrelenting suspense The Keep Of Fire Travis Wilder has returned from the otherworld of Eldh, hoping to settle back into his humdrum life in the mountains of contemporary Colorado. But he soon finds himself stalked by two shadowy organizations, each aware of his incredible journey and each determined to exploit it--whatever the cost to Travis...or to Eldh. Meanwhile, a terrifying new contagion is spreading like wildfire, a disease with no cure, which some are comparing to the Black Plague. When the disease strikes his closest friend, Travis is drawn back to Eldh, where the same epidemic, known as the Burning Plague, is wreaking another kind of havoc. There, in a realm of gods and monsters, myths and runecraft, Travis and his former companion Grace Beckett--herself from Earth, but now living on Eldh--must solve the riddle of the plague. Where did it come from? What is its purpose? And how can it possibly be stopped...before it completely destroys two coexisting worlds: ancient Eldh and modern Earth.

Download or read book The Swords of Night and Day written by David Gemmell and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With mythic sweep and epic scope, David Gemmell’s bestselling novels of magic and adventure feature brooding heroes who fight to preserve all that is good and honorable in themselves and in the worlds through which they stride like lonely giants. In times of terror and despair, theirs are the swords that carve a shining path, inspiring others to follow. Even after their deaths, their names live on. . . . A thousand years after they fell in battle, two heroes—Druss and Skilgannon—are revered throughout the war-torn lands of the Drenai. Yet men and women live in abject fear of the Joinings, abominable meldings of man and beast, and of their mistress, the dark sorceress known as the Eternal. None can stave off these ruthless foes. But what if the soul of one such hero could be called back from the void, his bones housed again in flesh? An ancient prophecy foretold that Skilgannon would return in his people’s darkest hour. To most, this is a foolish hope. But not so to Landis Kan. For years, as the power of the Eternal grew, Kan searched for the tomb of Skilgannon the Damned. And at last, he found it, gathering up the bones and performing the mystic ritual. But the reborn hero is an enigma: a young man whose warrior skills are blunted and whose memories are fragmented. This Skilgannon is a man out of time, marooned in a world as strange to him as a dream, remote from all he knew and loved. Or nearly all. Before bringing Skilgannon back, Landis Kan experimented upon other bone fragments found in the hero’s tomb. That ritual resulted in a surly giant who possessed astounding strength, but no memories. To Kan, he was a dangerous failure. But to Skilgannon, this giant represented their last hope. For as the ageless evil of the Eternal threatens to drown the Drenai lands in blood, two legendary heroes will once again lead the way to freedom.

Download or read book The Boy s Own Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: