Download or read book The Forgotten Witches of Ancient Israel written by Rev. Dr. Richard E. Kuykendall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Witches of Ancient Israel asks the question: Who were the witches in biblical times, and what did they do that was so horrible that Exodus 22:18 would give the commandment Thou shalt not allow a witch to live? These are the words that fueled the fires of the Burning Times, when witches were burned throughout Europe for a number of centuries. In this book, we will not only explore the Bible for answers of who they were and what they did, but we will also consider the Burning Times, as well as what modern witchcraft is today, for that we can truly know.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth Magic and Mysticism written by Geoffrey W. Dennis and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2007 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are alchemy, astrology, magic, and numerology related to Jewish mysticism? The fabulous, miraculous, and mysterious are all explored in this comprehensive reference to Jewish esotericism-the first of its kind! From amulets and angels to the zodiac and zombies, the "Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism" features over one thousand alphabetical entries. Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis offers a much-needed culmination of Jewish occult teachings that includes significant stories, mythical figures, practices, and ritual objects. Spanning the Bible, the Midrash, Kabbalah, and other mystical branches of Judaism, this well-researched text is meant to trigger insight, spark inspiration, and illuminate one of the oldest esoteric traditions still alive today.
Download or read book Spiritwind written by Rev. Dr. Richard E. Kuykendall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritwind: A Book for Spiritual Adventurers is a book that teaches you and your friends about many religions, philosophies and spiritual paths. It is a spiritual adventure that is only a beginning to a journey that lasts a lifetime. Spiritwind is also a book that models for you how to have a study group for “spiritual adventuerers.”
Download or read book The Routledge History of Witchcraft written by Johannes Dillinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft, from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts, and onwards to children’s books, horror films, and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors, the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical, literary, religious, and anthropological origin and development, including the reflections and adaptions of this belief in art and popular culture. The volume is divided into four chronological parts, beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One, Early Modern witch hunts in Part Two, modern concepts of witchcraft in Part Three, and ending with an examination of witchcraft and the arts in Part Four. Each chapter offers a glimpse of a different version of the witch, introducing the reader to the diversity of witches that have existed in different contexts throughout history. Exploring a wealth of texts and case studies and offering a broad geographical scope for examining this fascinating subject, The Routledge History of Witchcraft is essential reading for students and academics interested in the history of witchcraft.
Download or read book The Witches Almanac 2023 2024 Standard Edition Issue 42 written by Andrew Theitic and published by The Witches’ Almanac. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Witches’ Almanac is a sophisticated publication appealing to general readers as well as hard-core Wiccans. At one level, it is a pop reference that will fascinate anyone interested in folklore, mythology and culture, but at another, it is the most sophisticated annual guide available today for the mystic enthusiast. Modeled after the Old Farmers’ Almanac, it includes information related to the annual Moon Calendar (weather forecasts and horoscopes), as well as legends, rituals, herbal secrets, mystic incantations, interviews, and many a curious tale of good and evil. Although it is an annual publication, much of the content is both current and timeless—not specific to the date range of each issue. The theme of Issue 42 (Spring 2023–Spring 2024) is Earth—Origins of Chthonic Powers. Also included are articles on: Geomancy, The Lunar Nodes, Celestial Magic, and the Fifteen Behenian Stars, The Herbs of the Planets, The Orisha Ogun, and much more.
Download or read book White Lies about the Inuit written by John Steckley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively book, designed specifically for introductory students, Steckley unpacks three white lies: the myth that there are fifty-two words for snow, that there are blond, blue-eyed Inuit descended from the Vikings, and that the Inuit send off their elders to die on ice floes.
Download or read book Switching Sides written by Tony Fels and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starkey's devil in Massachusetts and the Post-World War II consensus -- Boyer and Nissenbaum's Salem possessed and the anti-capitalist critique -- An aside: investigations into the practice of actual witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England -- Demos's entertaining satan and the functionalist perspective -- Karlsen's devil in the shape of a woman and feminist interpretations -- Norton's in the devil's snare and racial approaches, I -- Norton's in the devil's snare and racial approaches, II
Download or read book Goddesses Elixirs and Witches written by J. Riddle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now with modern scientific research can we begin to understand the basisand rationality that these divine connections had and, being preserved in myths and religious stories, they continued to have a significant impact through the present day. Riddle argues that the pomegranate, mandrake, artemisia, and chaste tree plants substantially altered thedevelopment of medicine and fertility treatments.The herbs, once sacred to Inanna, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes, eventually came to be associated with darker forces, representing theinstruments of demons and witches. Riddle's ground-breaking work highlights the important medicinalhistory thatwas lost and argues for itsrightful place as one of the predecessors
Download or read book A Woman s Place Is in the Brewhouse written by Tara Nurin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • North American Guild of Beer Writers Best Book 2022 Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years—through the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization, the reign of Cleopatra, the witch trials of early modern Europe, and the settling of colonial America. A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse celebrates the contributions and influence of female brewers and explores the forces that have erased them from the brewing world. It's a history that's simultaneously inspiring and demeaning. Wherever and whenever the cottage brewing industry has grown profitable, politics, religion, and capitalism have grown greedy. On a macro scale, men have repeatedly seized control and forced women out of the business. Other times, women have simply lost the minimal independence, respect, and economic power brewing brought them. But there are more breweries now than at any time in American history and today women serve as founder, CEO, or head brewer at more than one thousand of them. As women continue to work hard for equal treatment and recognition in the industry, author Tara Nurin shows readers that women have been—and are once again becoming—relevant in the brewing world.
Download or read book Liturgies of the Earth written by Rev. Dr. Richard E. Kuykendall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the nature of the environmental crisis, Kuykendall has designed and number of Liturgies to be done in the Church or outdoors--by congregations or just interested people who would like to celebrate the Earth's "holy days"--the Solstices, Equinoxes, and the Celtic "quarter days" which fall between the Solstices and Equinoxes. The purpose of this book is to instill a sense of the sacredness of the Earth, and thereby help us not to abuse the Earth.
Download or read book Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period written by Israel Zinberg and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Solomon written by Rev. Dr. Richard E. Kuykendall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What The Wisdom of Solomon: According to... me is, is a rewriting of all of the books attributed to Solomon--even though we know most were certainly not written by him. And those books would be: The Song of Solomon, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Wisdom of Solomon, The Greater Key of Solomon and The Lesser Key of Solomon. The book is poetic in its format, fresh in its content, and extremely informative in its end notes. This book was a product of Kuykendall's practice of "Lectio Divina in Four Dimensions" and he hopes that in reading this book you will be inspired to do the same... in your own way, or "According to... you.
Download or read book Creation Spirituality A Theology written by Rev. Dr. Richard E. Kuykendall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Systemic Theology sounds like a work that will close debate, shut down questions, and attempt to sit conclusively on a shelf. In this novel undertaking, the author has borrowed that classical form and danced around it with a wonderfully accessible exploration of Creation Spirituality. Kuykendall’s tone is personal and invitingly conversational, and will lead the reader to want to further explore, to read broadly, and of course – true to the Creation Spirituality tradition – get oneself off the bookshelves and into the messy, inspiring, and beautiful gift that is existence. With scholarship and storytelling, the author entices Christians familiar with restrictive theological categories the chance to recognize the authenticity of the Creation Spirituality tradition, and to embrace a spiritual life that is vibrantly here-now and this-worldy. To those new or familiar with the tradition, Kuykendall’s Systematic Theology excels as both a primer and reference companion. - Matthew Henry
Download or read book The Bible and Feminism written by Yvonne Sherwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides readers with a concise, high-level introduction to the field of feminist and gender biblical criticism. It consists of 36 chapters which tackle a wide range of new theoretical and methodological movements.
Download or read book The Meaning of Witchcraft written by Gerald B. Gardner and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those of us who use the word witch with all of the pride and fortification that it offers us do so thanks to Gardner’s lucid, liberating vision.”—Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power Often called the father of modern witchcraft, Gerald Gardner’s life and works were ground-breaking in opening the door for the modern revival of Wicca and neo-paganism. The Meaning of Witchcraft (originally published in 1959) was the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. “The foundation of magical beliefs,” Gardner wrote, “of which witchcraft is a form, is that unseen Powers exist, and that by performing the right sort of ritual, these Powers can be contacted and either forced or persuaded to assist one in some way. People believed this in the Stone Age, and they believe it, consciously or not, today. It is now well known that most superstition is, in fact, broken-down ritual. The meaning of witchcraft is to be found not in strange religious theories about God and Satan but in the deepest levels of the human mind, the collective unconscious, and the earliest developments of human society.” The Meaning of Witchcraft is an enduring and invaluable source book for witches today. This Weiser Classics edition includes a new foreword by Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch. In it, Grossman revisits the historical role and mixed legacy that Gardner has played in the revival of witchcraft and magic in modern times.
Download or read book Druids written by Tadhg MacCrossan and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beauty of their ancient religion and power of their magic, when you read "The Truth About the Druids" by Tadhg MacCrossan. The word "Druid" evokes images of ancient wizards and wonder-workers from old Irish sagas or Welsh legends. The Druids have been credited as engineers of Stonehenge and the shamans of pre-Celtic Western Europe. Some believe they may have even been the priests of the Lost Tribes of ancient Israel. Others have credited them with Pythagorean philosophy, Cabala, mysteries of the Goddess, Buddhism, Runes, and Wicca. But these popular characterizations are not accurate representations of factual history. Just who, then, were the Druids? What did they teach? What did they do? "The Truth About the Druids" answers these questions and many more. You will learn: -The oral tradition and the Druidic class -Celtic origins -Celtic religion and mythology -Druidic festivals and clothing -Celtic magic -Neo-druidism since the 1700s -The future of Druidism "The Truth About the Druids "is much more than just a history. It also shows how the Earth-honoring tradition of the Druids is being revived all over the world. Now you can travel back to an ancient time in old Ireland before Patrick came to spread the religion of the Latin language. Find out just how you can use the time-honored beliefs on your spiritual path. Filled with legends and lore, factual history, and myth, "The Truth About the Druids" will help you find new ways to enhance your spirituality, improve your relationship with the Earth, and build your link to the Divine. Get "The Truth About the Druids" today.
Download or read book Sexuality and the Catholic Church written by Rev. Dr. Richard E. Kuykendall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality and the Catholic Church is a book that deals with the unique approach the Catholic Church takes towards human sexuality. From celibate priests and nuns, to consecrated virgins, to the ultimate Virgin--Mary, who is said to be a perpetually virgin, even though she gave birth to Jesus--to not allowing contraceptives for its members, and its refusal to ordain women as priests, or allow priests to marry. And much more.
