Author: Emma-Lindsay SquierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Bride of the Sacred Well
Author: Emma-Lindsay SquierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Bride of the Sacred Well, and Other Tales of Ancient Mexico, Etc
Author: Emma Lindsay SQUIERThe City of the Sacred Well
Author: Theodore Arthur WillardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chichen Itza, Yucatan
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tales of Sacred Wells in Ireland (Folklore History Series)
Author: Jane Francesca WildePublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 144749119X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
There is no superstition stronger in Ireland then a belief in the curative power of the sacred wells that are scattered over the country. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Sacred Well Murders
Author: Susan RowlandPublisher: Chiron Publications
ISBN: 1685030076
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a sacrifice at a sacred well. They discover that those who fail to individuate their gods become possessed by them. For the so-called Reborn Celts, who run the summer school, have been infiltrated by white supremacists. Could their immersion in myth be less a symbol for psychic wholeness and more a clue of their intent to engage in terrorist violence? Who better to penetrate their secret rites than an apparently harmless woman of a certain age? Mary agrees to spy on the Reborn Celts, then learns, to her horror, of Anna’s passionate affair with the chief suspect, Joe Griffith. With Griffith also the object of Rhiannon’s obsession, Mary realizes too late that that these 21st century Celts mean murder. The Reborn Celts draw Mary and her friends into three rites to summon their gods: at an Oxford sacred well, by the Thames on the way to London, and in Celtic London, where bloodshed will restore one of the Thames’ ‘lost rivers.’ Before the fatal night of the summer solstice, Caroline and Anna race to London seeking Mary, who has been kidnapped. Will she end as the crone sacrifice? Or will the three women re-make their detecting family, so re-constituting a pattern of archetypal feminine compassion?
The City of the Sacred Well, Being a Narrative of the Discoveries and Excavations of Edward Herbert Thompson in the Ancient City of Chi-chen Itza with Some Discourse on the Culture and Development of the Mayan Civilization as Revealed by Their Art and Architecture
Author: Theodore Arthur WillardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Sacred Wells
Author: Gary R. VarnerPublisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875867189
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Sacred Wells is an in depth study of springs, wells and waters that have been venerated from California to Cornwall, Russia to Australia. Tales of faeries, black hounds, hauntings and miraculous cures are explored. Many of these sites are still locations for religious festivals and ritual, unchanging for hundreds of years. The book is illustrated with photos taken by the author.
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
Author: Dyan ElliottPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient capacity to destabilize gender roles. In the early Middle Ages, the focus on virginity and the attendant anxiety over its possible loss reinforced the emphasis on claustration in female religious communities, while also profoundly disparaging the nonvirginal members of a given community. With the rising importance of intentionality in determining a person's spiritual profile in the high Middle Ages, the title of bride could be applied and appropriated to laywomen who were nonvirgins as well. Such instances of democratization coincided with the rise of bridal mysticism and a progressive somatization of female spirituality. These factors helped cultivate an increasingly literal and eroticized discourse: women began to undergo mystical enactments of their union with Christ, including ecstatic consummations and vivid phantom pregnancies. Female mystics also became increasingly intimate with their confessors and other clerical confidants, who were sometimes represented as stand-ins for the celestial bridegroom. The dramatic merging of the spiritual and physical in female expressions of religiosity made church authorities fearful, an anxiety that would coalesce around the figure of the witch and her carnal induction into the Sabbath.
Customs of the World
Author: Walter HutchinsonPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788172681708
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
The Nine Maidens
Author: Stuart McHardyPublisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 180425097X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Whether as the mothers of the Norse God Heimdall, Morgan and her sisters on Avalon, the nine sisters at the heart of the founding myth of the Gikuyu of Kenya, or witches battling with the Irish St Patrick, stories of nine women, often attending a goddess or linked to a heroic or divine male, exist across much of our world. Triggered by a local story still told in his native Dundee, Stuart McHardy has traced what seems to be memories of groups of nine women, most likely some kind of priestesses, across much of Europe and as far as Siberia, Korea, India and Africa. Whether as Pictish saints, Muses, Valkyries, Druidesses or witches, the tales of these groups of nine women transcend a vast range of cultural and linguistic boundaries. The painting of nine women dancing round a priapic male in a Catalonian cave painting over fifteen thousand years old suggests these groups may well have been one of the oldest cultural institutions humanity has known.