Kings, Beast and Heroes

Kings, Beast and Heroes PDF Author: G. Jones
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Languages : en
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Kings, Beast and Heroes

Kings, Beast and Heroes PDF Author: G. Jones
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Kings, Beasts and Heroes

Kings, Beasts and Heroes PDF Author: Gwyn Jones
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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The King’s Beast, Vol. 1

The King’s Beast, Vol. 1 PDF Author: Rei Toma
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 197472543X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Prince Tenyou is not what Rangetsu expected, and the political currents in the palace run deep and strange. Does Rangetsu have any chance of finding justice for her brother, or will she become just another Ajin casualty in the game of kings? -- VIZ Media

Gods, Heroes, & Kings

Gods, Heroes, & Kings PDF Author: Christopher R. Fee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190291702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.

The King’s Beast, Vol. 3

The King’s Beast, Vol. 3 PDF Author: Rei Toma
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974729141
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Rangetsu hasn’t given up on vengeance, but nothing about the imperial palace is simple. Now that she knows and trusts Prince Tenyou, she has come to see that her most important duty is to keep him alive for the sake of all Ajin—even at the cost of her own life! -- VIZ Media

The King’s Beast, Vol. 5

The King’s Beast, Vol. 5 PDF Author: Rei Toma
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974731340
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Female Ajin are prohibited from serving in the palace, and so Rangetsu’s revenge depends on her ability to maintain her ruse. But when the attendant Taihaku discovers the truth and Third Prince Kougai’s suspicious are roused, will Rangetsu lose her place by Prince Tenyou’s side as well as her chance at vengeance? -- VIZ Media

A Hero's Tale

A Hero's Tale PDF Author: Jiu YueWenTian
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649351208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 659

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Carrying a adorable pet, stepping on a green mountain, and daring to venture into the world by himself. For the sake of a beauty, he dared to ascend to the ninth heaven to pluck the stars; for the sake of the common people, he dared to enter the netherworld to burn the blood. The world was in chaos as the mountains and rivers changed. His cultivation could pierce through the heavens; he charged into the demon realm, entered the demonic path, and directly called upon the heaven and earth to change his appearance. The code word is not easy, I hope that everyone will support me! Welcome to the "Traveler's Fellow" 294786038. Close]

Beast

Beast PDF Author: Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher:
ISBN: 1555977790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Originally published: London: Faber & Faber, 2016.

Gods and Heroes

Gods and Heroes PDF Author: Korwin Briggs
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523503912
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Meet the Original Superheroes. Before there was Batman, Wonder Woman, or Black Panther...there was Indra, Hindu king of gods, who battled a fearsome snake to save the world from drought. Athena, the powerful Greek goddess of wisdom who could decide the fate of battles before they even began. Okuninushi, the Japanese hero who defeated eighty brothers to become king and then traded it all for a chance at immortality. Featuring more than 70 characters from 23 cultures around the world, this A-to-Z encyclopedia of mythology is a who's who of powerful gods and goddesses, warriors and kings, enchanted creatures and earthshaking giants whose stories have been passed down since the beginning of time—and are now given fresh life for a new generation of young readers. Plus, You'll Learn All About: Dragons: The Hydra, St. George's Dragon, and the Australian Rainbow Snake Giants: Grendel, Balor of the Evuil Eye, Polyphemus, and the Purusha with the thousand heads Monsters: Manticore, Sphinx, Minotaur, Thunderbird, and Echidne, mother of the Nemean lion that nearly killed Heracles Underworlds: Travel to Hades, Valhalla, and the Elysian Fields

The Wake

The Wake PDF Author: Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979076
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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"A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.