Author: Avery Rain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781697322972
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Gwyllen Forest is under siege. Ten years ago, the great elven city of Firavar fell at the hands of humans. Now the elves who fled to the forest must tackle an old threat: the sickly king who once conquered their city. The Forty-Forth Regiment is deployed at the border and its soldiers prepare for battle. The betrayal of a close friend thrusts the young half-elf Key into a world of beautiful elves, eldritch woodland creatures, and political intrigue. Faced with an old prophecy and a mysterious goddess, Key must make a choice that may alter the future of all Gwyllen Forest. An honorable lieutenant captures an elven commander... and falls for her. When the king bestows on him the task to retrieve the wayward daughter of a powerful earl from the clutches of the elves, the arrival of a sadistic mercenary captain aggravates the situation. Elves scheme. Humans plot. Ancient horrors dwell in the deep woods. And the Goddess of the Cave whispers... Goddess of the Cave is a Dark Fantasy Horror novel intended for adult readers. It contains harem elements and explicit scenes of steamy action and brutal violence.
Goddess of the Cave
Author: Avery Rain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781697322972
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Gwyllen Forest is under siege. Ten years ago, the great elven city of Firavar fell at the hands of humans. Now the elves who fled to the forest must tackle an old threat: the sickly king who once conquered their city. The Forty-Forth Regiment is deployed at the border and its soldiers prepare for battle. The betrayal of a close friend thrusts the young half-elf Key into a world of beautiful elves, eldritch woodland creatures, and political intrigue. Faced with an old prophecy and a mysterious goddess, Key must make a choice that may alter the future of all Gwyllen Forest. An honorable lieutenant captures an elven commander... and falls for her. When the king bestows on him the task to retrieve the wayward daughter of a powerful earl from the clutches of the elves, the arrival of a sadistic mercenary captain aggravates the situation. Elves scheme. Humans plot. Ancient horrors dwell in the deep woods. And the Goddess of the Cave whispers... Goddess of the Cave is a Dark Fantasy Horror novel intended for adult readers. It contains harem elements and explicit scenes of steamy action and brutal violence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781697322972
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Gwyllen Forest is under siege. Ten years ago, the great elven city of Firavar fell at the hands of humans. Now the elves who fled to the forest must tackle an old threat: the sickly king who once conquered their city. The Forty-Forth Regiment is deployed at the border and its soldiers prepare for battle. The betrayal of a close friend thrusts the young half-elf Key into a world of beautiful elves, eldritch woodland creatures, and political intrigue. Faced with an old prophecy and a mysterious goddess, Key must make a choice that may alter the future of all Gwyllen Forest. An honorable lieutenant captures an elven commander... and falls for her. When the king bestows on him the task to retrieve the wayward daughter of a powerful earl from the clutches of the elves, the arrival of a sadistic mercenary captain aggravates the situation. Elves scheme. Humans plot. Ancient horrors dwell in the deep woods. And the Goddess of the Cave whispers... Goddess of the Cave is a Dark Fantasy Horror novel intended for adult readers. It contains harem elements and explicit scenes of steamy action and brutal violence.
Selene
Author: Steve Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907222504
Category : Selene (Greek deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An examination of the myths of the Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in ancient Greece. Waxing and waning and reborn with each new month, the Moon has always been the supreme symbol of cyclical change in the western world. Metaphorical representations of the Moon's goddess also seem to undergo similar changes, each new century reinventing her in its own image. For Hesiod, she was a distant figure in the celestial pantheon, to Keats she was an intimate muse; Selene's recurring role in music, literature, and song is a powerful testament to our continued fascination with her myth. A deeply erudite and meticulously researched survey, this book explores the perennial curiosity our closest orbital neighbor continues to instill, providing at once an unprecedented body of historical research and a critical armature for the author's lauded prose reverie Somnium. Despite the importance of the Moon to recent developments in esoteric scholarship and mythography, Selene doesn't attempt to present a "Moon-Goddess for the twenty-first century," but rather looks at the myths of one specific Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in the literature of ancient Greece. In doing so, Selene marks the point at which classical scholarship comes closest to a physical embrace with its ethereal subject matter. "An impeccable and flawlessly researched piece of classical scholarship." --Alan Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907222504
Category : Selene (Greek deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An examination of the myths of the Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in ancient Greece. Waxing and waning and reborn with each new month, the Moon has always been the supreme symbol of cyclical change in the western world. Metaphorical representations of the Moon's goddess also seem to undergo similar changes, each new century reinventing her in its own image. For Hesiod, she was a distant figure in the celestial pantheon, to Keats she was an intimate muse; Selene's recurring role in music, literature, and song is a powerful testament to our continued fascination with her myth. A deeply erudite and meticulously researched survey, this book explores the perennial curiosity our closest orbital neighbor continues to instill, providing at once an unprecedented body of historical research and a critical armature for the author's lauded prose reverie Somnium. Despite the importance of the Moon to recent developments in esoteric scholarship and mythography, Selene doesn't attempt to present a "Moon-Goddess for the twenty-first century," but rather looks at the myths of one specific Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in the literature of ancient Greece. In doing so, Selene marks the point at which classical scholarship comes closest to a physical embrace with its ethereal subject matter. "An impeccable and flawlessly researched piece of classical scholarship." --Alan Moore
Origins of the Gods
Author: Andrew Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591434106
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
• Explores how our ancestors used shamanic rituals at sacred sites to create portals for communication with nonhuman intelligences • Shares supporting evidence from the spiritual and shamanic beliefs of more than 100 Native American tribes • Shows how the earliest forms of shamanism began at sites like Qesem Cave in Israel more than 400,000 years ago From Göbekli Tepe in Turkey to the Egyptian pyramids, from the stone circles of Europe to the mound complexes of the Americas, Andrew Collins and Gregory L. Little show how, again and again, our ancestors built permanent sites of ceremonial activity where geomagnetic and gravitational anomalies have been recorded. They investigate how the earliest forms of animism and shamanism began at sites like the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia and Qesem Cave in Israel more than 400,000 years ago. They explain how shamanic rituals and altered states of consciousness combine with the natural forces of the earth to create portals for contact with otherworldly realms—in other words, the gods of our ancestors were the result of an interaction between human consciousness and transdimensional intelligence. The authors show how the spiritual and shamanic beliefs of more than 100 Native American tribes align with their theory, and they reveal how some of these shamanic transdimensional portals are still active, sharing vivid examples from Skinwalker Ranch in Utah and Bempton in northern England. Ultimately, Collins and Little show how our modern disconnection from nature and lack of a fully visible night sky makes the manifestations from these ultraterrestrial intelligences seem random. If we can restore our spiritual connections, perhaps we can once again communicate with the higher dimensional beings who triggered the advancements of our earliest ancestors.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591434106
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
• Explores how our ancestors used shamanic rituals at sacred sites to create portals for communication with nonhuman intelligences • Shares supporting evidence from the spiritual and shamanic beliefs of more than 100 Native American tribes • Shows how the earliest forms of shamanism began at sites like Qesem Cave in Israel more than 400,000 years ago From Göbekli Tepe in Turkey to the Egyptian pyramids, from the stone circles of Europe to the mound complexes of the Americas, Andrew Collins and Gregory L. Little show how, again and again, our ancestors built permanent sites of ceremonial activity where geomagnetic and gravitational anomalies have been recorded. They investigate how the earliest forms of animism and shamanism began at sites like the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia and Qesem Cave in Israel more than 400,000 years ago. They explain how shamanic rituals and altered states of consciousness combine with the natural forces of the earth to create portals for contact with otherworldly realms—in other words, the gods of our ancestors were the result of an interaction between human consciousness and transdimensional intelligence. The authors show how the spiritual and shamanic beliefs of more than 100 Native American tribes align with their theory, and they reveal how some of these shamanic transdimensional portals are still active, sharing vivid examples from Skinwalker Ranch in Utah and Bempton in northern England. Ultimately, Collins and Little show how our modern disconnection from nature and lack of a fully visible night sky makes the manifestations from these ultraterrestrial intelligences seem random. If we can restore our spiritual connections, perhaps we can once again communicate with the higher dimensional beings who triggered the advancements of our earliest ancestors.
Here, Everything Is Dreaming
Author: Robert Moss
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438447140
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438447140
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world.
Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe
Author: Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Cretan
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A study of the origins and history of the Minoan civilization of Crete and its myths, legends, and interactions with neighboring Hellenic kingdoms.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Cretan
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A study of the origins and history of the Minoan civilization of Crete and its myths, legends, and interactions with neighboring Hellenic kingdoms.
Mixanthrôpoi
Author: Emma Aston
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Liège
ISBN: 2821895631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation.
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Liège
ISBN: 2821895631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation.
The Allegory of the Cave
Author: Plato
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Books VII and VIII (531d–534e). Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality.
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Books VII and VIII (531d–534e). Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality.
Cave of the Jagua
Author: Antonio M. Stevens Arroyo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"In his new Introduction to this edition, Stevens-Arroyo analyzes significant new research, provides a guide to the important scientific findings of mitochondrial DNA among contemporary Caribbean peoples, offers additional evidence supporting his original argument that the Tainos were not exterminated in the 16th century, and initiates discussion of still unresolved issues. This edition of Cave of the Jagua considers Neo-Taino movements, explores the meanings of Taino spirituality, and emphasizes the significance of that message to the contemporary world."--Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"In his new Introduction to this edition, Stevens-Arroyo analyzes significant new research, provides a guide to the important scientific findings of mitochondrial DNA among contemporary Caribbean peoples, offers additional evidence supporting his original argument that the Tainos were not exterminated in the 16th century, and initiates discussion of still unresolved issues. This edition of Cave of the Jagua considers Neo-Taino movements, explores the meanings of Taino spirituality, and emphasizes the significance of that message to the contemporary world."--Jacket.
The Book of the Cave of Treasures
Author: E. a. Budge Budge
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596053356
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
And in the days of Nimrod, the mighty man (or giant), a fire appeared which ascended from the earth, and Nimrod went down, and looked at it, and worshipped it, and he established priests to minister there, and to cast incense from it. From that day the Persians began to worship fire...-from "The Fourth Thousand Years"One of the most prolific and respected Egyptologists of the Victorian era, Budge here offers his translation of the 4th-century A.D. Syrian text commonly known as "the Cave of Treasures," a history of the world from the Creation to the crucifixion of Christ and considered by some to be an apocryphal book of the Bible. Budge's extensive notes, linking the work to other ancient writings, as well as the numerous illustrations, make this unusual work, first published in 1927, an excellent resource for students of ancient civilizations and comparative mythology.SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596053356
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
And in the days of Nimrod, the mighty man (or giant), a fire appeared which ascended from the earth, and Nimrod went down, and looked at it, and worshipped it, and he established priests to minister there, and to cast incense from it. From that day the Persians began to worship fire...-from "The Fourth Thousand Years"One of the most prolific and respected Egyptologists of the Victorian era, Budge here offers his translation of the 4th-century A.D. Syrian text commonly known as "the Cave of Treasures," a history of the world from the Creation to the crucifixion of Christ and considered by some to be an apocryphal book of the Bible. Budge's extensive notes, linking the work to other ancient writings, as well as the numerous illustrations, make this unusual work, first published in 1927, an excellent resource for students of ancient civilizations and comparative mythology.SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The Living Goddesses
Author: Marija Gimbutas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520229150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520229150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.