Download or read book The Seer s Curse written by J.J. Faulks and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seer’s Curse is the debut novel from a promising young author. Evocative, captivating and endearing with multi-generational relevance. Although set in a fantasy world, it is relevant for today as it deals with friendship, acceptance and self-discovery. The Seer’s Curse is a beautifully crafted fantasy novel about friendship, acceptance and self-discovery with fresh and inspiring myths woven throughout the fabric of this heart-warming and touching tale. Although written for children aged nine and over, it has an ageless relevance that appeals to all. When Orleigh, daughter of the village leader, is born in the wrong place and without her mother to guide her, only the Seer is aware that she has been separated from her fate. Having manipulated the villagers to believe that Orleigh is cursed, the Seer arranges for Orleigh to be taken and offered to the Earth God, Teymos. Yet still fate is not restored. Years later, when Orleigh’s childhood friend Piprin discovers that Orleigh might still be alive, he resolves to rescue her and to return her to the Land of Mortals. Guided by the Seer and the myths of his childhood, Piprin sets out on a quest to the Land of Gods, where mortals like him are forbidden.
Download or read book The Seer written by James Menaker and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends say that long ago a mystical order of men and women walked the earth. They were known as the Seers. Stories claim that they saw the invisible, knew the unknowable, and performed impossible feats of power. They wandered the earth as champions for the oppressed and heralds of days to come. Seers were cloaked in mystery and suspicion, but when they spoke, the wise listened. Elijah is a Seer, widely considered to be the greatest of their order. He is called to confront the powerful King Ahab with five simple words, “There will be no rain.” The Seer narrates the dangerous, exciting and God-given journey of the prophet Elijah in an entertaining and engaging way. This young adult adventure brings the ancient story to life and shows that when gods battle for the future of mankind, one person can change everything.
Download or read book The Curse of Credesar Book 2 written by Robert E. Keller and published by Robert E. Keller. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future world where humanity is forced to hide in underground cities or towers that rise high above the land, the sword and the spell rule supreme. In this age of scheming seers struggling for power, a young sorcerer named Kelden is forced to match wits with the most powerful demon to ever walk the land--the mighty Credesar. To make matters worse, Kelden is surrounded by enemies who want him dead, as an epic puzzle unfolds that could determine the fate of humanity. ... Series keywords: epic fantasy, sword and sorcery, magic, quest, swords, dragons, fantasy series, monsters, young adult, children's, wizards, heroic fantasy, coming of age fantasy, teen's, action, adventure
Download or read book The Curse of Credesar Book 1 written by Robert E. Keller and published by Robert E. Keller. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future world where humanity is forced to hide in underground cities or towers that rise high above the land, the sword and the spell rule supreme. In this age of scheming seers struggling for power, a young sorcerer named Kelden is forced to match wits with the most powerful demon to ever walk the land--the mighty Credesar. To make matters worse, Kelden is surrounded by enemies who want him dead, as an epic puzzle unfolds that could determine the fate of humanity. Series keywords: epic fantasy, sword and sorcery, free, freebie, magic, quest, swords, dragons, fantasy series, monsters, young adult, children's, wizards, heroic fantasy, coming of age fantasy, teen's, action, adventure, free epic fantasy
Download or read book The R m ya a of V lm ki An Epic of Ancient India Volume VII written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume of a critical English edition of the monumental Indian epic The seventh and final book of the monumental Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the Uttarakāṇḍa, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rāma's millennia-long reign. It opens with a colorful history of the demonic race of the rākṣasas and the violent career of Rāma’s villainous foe Rāvaṇa, and later recounts Rāma’s grateful discharge of his allies in the great war at Lankā as well as his romantic reunion with his wife Sītā. But dark clouds gather as Rāma, confronted by scandal over Sītā’s time in captivity under the lustful Rāvaṇa, makes the agonizing decision to banish his beloved wife, now pregnant. As Rāma continues as king, marvelous tales and events unfurl, illustrating the benefits of righteous rule and the perils that await monarchs who fail to address the needs of their subjects. The Uttarakāṇḍa has long served as a point of social and religious controversy largely for its accounts of the banishment of Sītā, as well as of Rāma’s killing of a low-caste ascetic. The translators’ introduction provides a full discussion of these issues and the complex reception history of the Uttarakāṇḍa. This translation of the critical edition also includes exhaustive notes and a comprehensive bibliography.
Download or read book The Growth of Literature written by H. Munro Chadwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written literatures of regions from Iceland and the British Isles, to Russia, the Balkans, Africa, India and the Pacific, placing them in their historical context and examining similarities between them. The authors discuss both ancient and recent texts, illustrating the connections within each group and considering the question of whether all literary growth is influenced by common factors. Praised on publication as ' ... a work that is not, probably could not be, superseded' (International Journal of Comparative Sociology), the book remains a benchmark for those studying comparative literature or the history of literary criticism. Volume 2 focuses particularly on Russia and the Balkans, and also surveys both early Indian and early Hebrew literature.
Download or read book 12 Curses of the Dark Zodiac written by Keith G Sorrell and published by Keith G Sorrell. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 Curses of the Dark Zodiac is a chilling anthology of horror stories that reimagines the celestial influences of the zodiac with a malevolent twist. Dive into twelve spine-tingling tales, each dedicated to a different zodiac sign, where cosmic destiny intertwines with the macabre.
Download or read book Oracles Curses and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks written by Esther Eidinow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the question tablets from the oracle at Dodona and binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, These tablets reveal the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, and help us to understand some of the ways in which they managed risk and uncertainty in their daily lives.
Download or read book The Seer And The Sword written by Victoria Hanley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flame-haired Princess Torina knows nothing of battles and conquest until her father, the king of Bellandra, returns home with an orphaned prince from the neighbouring enemy kingdom. The boy prince is offered to Torina as a slave, but she frees him from his bonds and their unusual friendship develops in the years that follow. But Torina faces terrible danger - she has an amazing gift that many would kill for, and when her father is brutally murdered she is forced to flee for her life. An evil usurper takes over her rightful throne, and the kingdom is ruled by cruelty and fear. Can Torina's gift - to look into the future of others - help her win back what is rightly hers? This is an epic fantasy of extraordinary scope and vision. Its twists and turns will leave readers breathless.
Download or read book The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha written by Bodhi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-11-09 with total page 1423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 152 discourses that form this major collection combine a rich variety of contextual settings with a deep & comprehensive assortment of teachings. A companion volume to The Long Discourses of the Buddha. 1995 winner of Choice Magazine's "Outstanding Academic Book" Award.
Download or read book written by Robert Bisignani and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four teenagers following a dangerous man, unpopular students defeating the "in" crowd, a magical book that hides by moving around a library, wizard wrestling, a feisty voice inside a young girl's head, premonitions, two teenagers flirting, an 1,100 year old demon, amulets of power, a mean teacher getting a taste of his own medicine, a secret library, wizard science projects. "Wizards, Seers, & Demons at the Bloodstone Academy" is about two teenagers' adventures during their first few months as wizards and how through his kindness to a student, a teacher saves his own life. John, a thirteen-year-old boy believes his luck has changed when he's invited to attend a school for wizards and leave the orphanage where he lives. He meets Cassandra, a thirteen old witch at the school and is attracted to her. He doesn't know that she's a Great Seer and has been dreaming of him. John also doesn't know that he can create amulets of great power. An evil warlock wants to destroy the school, its students and teachers by releasing a demon that was imprisoned there. Sybil, a spirit of an ancient witch, is determined to stop him by helping Cassandra.
Download or read book Publications of the Texas Folk lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curse of the Mistwraith The Wars of Light and Shadow Book 1 written by Janny Wurts and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK ONE IN THE GROUNDBREAKING SERIES, THE WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW A powerful, layered weaving of myth, prose and pure imagination – Curse of the Mistwraith opens an epic fantasy series perfect for fans of The Dark Tower and Earthsea.
Download or read book Seers Witches and Psychics on Screen written by Karin Beeler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the pervasive representation of women with unique visionary abilities in postfeminist television series and films from the 1990s to the present. These women mediate between the living and the dead or between different worlds of experience, redefining what it means to be "normal" and challenging the traditional boundary between science and the inner world of visionary, mystical experience. Part 1 includes a discussion of modern-day Cassandra figures, including the witches and other "seers" of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Charmed, Hex, and Tru Calling. Part 2 discusses modern television shows whose main characters represent a contemporary spin on Joan of Arc, including Joan of Arcadia and the short-lived Wonderfalls. Finally, Part 3 investigates female mediums and other "psychic detectives" in reality television series such as Psychic Investigators and Rescue Mediums; the popular television dramas Medium, Ghost Whisperer, and Afterlife; and contemporary films such as Ghost, The Gift, and Premonition.
Download or read book Translation Series written by Pali Text Society and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Old Testament Theology of the Spirit of God written by Wilfred Hildebrandt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilf Hildebrandt carefully explores the meaning of "the Spirit" in the Old Testament. He examines the role of God's Spirit in creation, in the establishment and preservation of God's people, in prophecy, and in Israel's leadership. He unveils the central role that the Spirit plays in creatively bringing about the directives of God. Through the Spirit, God brings order out of chaos, ushers the invisible into reality, makes a separation between the sacred and the profane, enables specific people to meet particular needs, and supersedes natural laws. This work sheds light on the Spirit of God in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity written by Emily Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
