Goddesses and Heroines: Women of Myth and Legend, Hardcover - Xanthe Gresham-Knight

Goddesses and Heroines tells the tales of inspirational female characters from ancient myth and legend which all too often go untold. Performance s...

Reducere. Armenian mythology was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism, with deities such as Aramazd, Mihr or Anahit, as well as Assyrian traditions, such as...

Reducere. Long, long ago in ancient Greece, people began telling wonderful stories to explain the mysteries of life. These myths featured gods and goddesses,...

Reducere. DescriptionThe idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery...

Reducere. A juggernaut in the literary world at the apex of history, culture, politics, and art, the Greeks altered almost every facet of Western ideology an...

Most people have heard of the Celts--the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxic...

Reducere. Heroines of Avalon & Other Tales by Ayn Cates Sullivan transports readers into the time of legend and revisits deities and legendary female charact...

DescriptionJust as ancient people sought the oracles of the goddesses, today's readers can find inspiration and guidance from the eternal feminine ...

Reducere. Morgan Llywelyn, author of the Irish Century series of historical novels and for Lion of Ireland, weaves Irish mythology, historical elements, and ...

Reducere. DescriptionNed the knight always does exactly what he's told. When his parents ask him to pick up his toys, dig up the cabbages, or go to bed on ti...

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalitie...

This anthology gathers together the most iconic and entertaining tales of adventure and daring from around the world. From Perseus the Gorgon-Slaye...

Reducere. DescriptionHindu mythology is rich in detail yet, at times, features many contradictions. In this book, we are going to recount many favorite and c...

Reducere. Your Guide to the Ancient Paths of Spirituality Here is a comprehensive guide to the mythology and magickal practices of more than twenty different...

Do you know that the ancient Egyptians believed that People were made out of clay by their river god?For eons, the wisdom cultivated by the Egyptia...

Reducere. The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of mi...

DescriptionPotent medieval faery lore and hidden goddess traditions for the 21st century. Gareth Knight explores and reveals the hidden mystery of ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book Gareth Knight takes the most famous and most haunting of all British legends and places it in its rightful position as the ...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilding on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, The World of Myth, Third Edition, offers a uniquely comprehensive collectio...

Reducere. This is an extensive guide to the world of Egyptian mythology. Both cultural background and historical events will be helping you on your journey o...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionEverything You Need To Know About Celtic Mythology, Heroes & Monsters Is Here Do you want to learn everything about Celtic myths and God...

The progenitor of "Muslim punk rock" and one of today's freshest spiritual voices pushes back against the common assumption that the historic faith...

Reducere. DescriptionFor a period of ninety days in 1993, Gareth Knight received a sequence of communications which seemed to come from three inner plane com...

Reducere. A work of literary historical fiction, Man Shark is based on an unusual story amid the extensive oral literature of the Marshall Islanders that unc...

Reducere. Do you know that the Mayans believed that the Earth was flat with four poles supporting the sky? Or that the Inca Emperors were thought to be the d...

The story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the 18th century. A hard-edged dissection of slavery from an aw...

Reducere. Chr tien de Troyes was a 12th century French poet known for his poems about King Arthur. Troyes also created the character Lancelot.

Reducere. Award NameOklahoma Book AwardAward categoryChildren/Young AdultDescriptionJi-Stu, the Cherokee trickster rabbit, wakes early one morning and decide...

Reducere. DescriptionIntroducing: Captivating Stories and Facts of Roman Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures In this book, you will discover many fas...

Reducere. A manual of magical and mystical techniques for contacting the Goddess within - Draws from two thousand years of source material to demonstrate the...

Reducere. Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From ...

A "zany [and] inventive" (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiqu...

Reducere. Northeastern Minnesota Book AwardHow did the state of Minnesota get its name? An age-old Ojibwe tale holds the key.

Scottish heroes and heroines pack of five books: The Story of William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, The Story of Robert the Bruce, The Story of Bon...

Illustrations accompany a fictional rewriting of each of 50 women's stories, followed by a critical analysis of their role in the mythological cano...

Reducere. "Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who vent...