Author: Dale Kidd
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105760189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Little does Ross Murdoch know that graffiti on a jungle gym in a local park will lead him to unearth the dark and dangerous underbelly of his quiet neighborhood. While city fathers remain blind to the violence of enuf + oZ!, Murdoch discovers a trail of mayhem left in their wake, and embarks upon a one-man crusade to unearth the truth and avenge the injustice.
Sacrificing Sticks
Author: Dale Kidd
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105760189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Little does Ross Murdoch know that graffiti on a jungle gym in a local park will lead him to unearth the dark and dangerous underbelly of his quiet neighborhood. While city fathers remain blind to the violence of enuf + oZ!, Murdoch discovers a trail of mayhem left in their wake, and embarks upon a one-man crusade to unearth the truth and avenge the injustice.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105760189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Little does Ross Murdoch know that graffiti on a jungle gym in a local park will lead him to unearth the dark and dangerous underbelly of his quiet neighborhood. While city fathers remain blind to the violence of enuf + oZ!, Murdoch discovers a trail of mayhem left in their wake, and embarks upon a one-man crusade to unearth the truth and avenge the injustice.
The Daily Practice of the Hindus, Containing the Morning and Midday Duties
Author: Srisa Chandra Vasu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brahmanism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brahmanism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
City of Sacrifice
Author: David Carrasco
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807046432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807046432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.
Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas
Author: Uma Marina Vesci
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120808416
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120808416
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary.
A Sacrifice of Pawns
Author: Malcolm Archibald
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Caribbean, 1762. With the French in Canada defeated, the focus of Sergeant Hugh MacKim's war shifts to the West Indies. Still with Kennedy's Rangers, a French privateer captures his ship off the Bahamas, and the French captain murders the crew. From that point on, MacKim and the Rangers fight their way through the campaign, with battles on Martinico and Cuba only the backdrop to their personal war with Captain Rene Roberval of Douce Vengeance. In the third book of the Warrior's Path trilogy, MacKim faces hurricanes and meets slaves while hoping to survive and return to the arms of Claudia, his French-Canadian sweetheart. But life does not always go according to plan. This book contains graphic violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Caribbean, 1762. With the French in Canada defeated, the focus of Sergeant Hugh MacKim's war shifts to the West Indies. Still with Kennedy's Rangers, a French privateer captures his ship off the Bahamas, and the French captain murders the crew. From that point on, MacKim and the Rangers fight their way through the campaign, with battles on Martinico and Cuba only the backdrop to their personal war with Captain Rene Roberval of Douce Vengeance. In the third book of the Warrior's Path trilogy, MacKim faces hurricanes and meets slaves while hoping to survive and return to the arms of Claudia, his French-Canadian sweetheart. But life does not always go according to plan. This book contains graphic violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.
Sacrifice
Author: L. R. Saul
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458748596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Emme, illegitimate daughter of a woman who hales and beats her, longs to run away from her primitive, barbaric village. When a stranger appears in her forest and entices her to run away with him to his home, the great city, she agrees. Abruptly a black portal opens up. Thrust into the portal, she finds herself in an alien city on the other side of the world. Realising she has been tricked. Emme flees into the vast grey maze and finds a world full of enemies - relentless enemies who would turn her in for the hefty price on her head. Alone, vulnerable, and longing for the reason she is here, Emme does not know who to trust. Can she trust the cunning street rats and their secretive gentleman leader? The deadly magic-wielding priests who long ago lost their innocence when they enacted a sinister ritual of human sacrifice? The stranger who risked everything to bring her here and has put the price on her head? The powerful, corrupt underground organisation of the Black Bands? Or maybe, in a bleak wintry city of strangers and a dark past. Emme can only rely upon herself and her quest for the truth.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458748596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Emme, illegitimate daughter of a woman who hales and beats her, longs to run away from her primitive, barbaric village. When a stranger appears in her forest and entices her to run away with him to his home, the great city, she agrees. Abruptly a black portal opens up. Thrust into the portal, she finds herself in an alien city on the other side of the world. Realising she has been tricked. Emme flees into the vast grey maze and finds a world full of enemies - relentless enemies who would turn her in for the hefty price on her head. Alone, vulnerable, and longing for the reason she is here, Emme does not know who to trust. Can she trust the cunning street rats and their secretive gentleman leader? The deadly magic-wielding priests who long ago lost their innocence when they enacted a sinister ritual of human sacrifice? The stranger who risked everything to bring her here and has put the price on her head? The powerful, corrupt underground organisation of the Black Bands? Or maybe, in a bleak wintry city of strangers and a dark past. Emme can only rely upon herself and her quest for the truth.
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice
Author: Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042918436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042918436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
काण्वशतपथब्राह्मणम्
Author: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120811270
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Hindu canonical text; critically edited Sanskrit text with English translation.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120811270
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Hindu canonical text; critically edited Sanskrit text with English translation.
Silence and Sacrifice
Author: Merav Shohet
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520379373
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them apart? In this groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research set in Vietnam, Merav Shohet explores what happens across generations to families that survive imperialism, war, and massive political and economic upheaval. Placing personal sacrifice at the center of her story, Shohet recounts vivid experiences of conflict, love, and loss. In doing so, her work challenges the idea that sacrifice is merely a blood-filled religious ritual or patriotic act. Today, domestic sacrifices—made largely by women—precariously knot family members together by silencing suffering and naturalizing cross-cutting gender, age, class, and political hierarchies. In rethinking ordinary ethics, this intimate ethnography reveals how quotidian acts of sacrifice help family members forge a sense of continuity in the face of trauma and decades of dramatic change.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520379373
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them apart? In this groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research set in Vietnam, Merav Shohet explores what happens across generations to families that survive imperialism, war, and massive political and economic upheaval. Placing personal sacrifice at the center of her story, Shohet recounts vivid experiences of conflict, love, and loss. In doing so, her work challenges the idea that sacrifice is merely a blood-filled religious ritual or patriotic act. Today, domestic sacrifices—made largely by women—precariously knot family members together by silencing suffering and naturalizing cross-cutting gender, age, class, and political hierarchies. In rethinking ordinary ethics, this intimate ethnography reveals how quotidian acts of sacrifice help family members forge a sense of continuity in the face of trauma and decades of dramatic change.
Navaho Legends
Author: Washington Matthews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description