Ancient

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wide array of fascinating topics-such as ancient diagnostic practices using the pulse and urine, gynecological theories of women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974566757Author Will ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 712Imprint Bardic PressPublisher Bardic PressWeight(grams) 1204gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 36mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802829597Author Tammi J. SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578633975Author John Michael GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g

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The Norse goddess Frigg is known to have influence over many roles. She is a goddess of marriage and children, but she is also a goddess of fate and cunning. Frigg is a goddess of domestic activities, and she is a goddess of healing. She is a goddess of...

Your hands can help to heal the earth. This comprehensive guide to land healing for neopagans and Earth-based spiritual practitioners allows those who have a desire to regenerate and heal human-caused damage throughout our world to make a difference. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908092076Author Algis UzdavinysFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint The Matheson TrustPublisher The Matheson TrustWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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Despite modern Paganism being one of the fastest growing new religious movements in Britain and the USA, there is no up-to-date straightforward and informed introduction to modern Paganism from a Christian perspective. The Shaken Path addresses that gap...

Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany.Drawing on recent historical and...

The first modern study of prehistoric religion in Ireland to draw on the combined evidence of archaeology, literature and folklore to illuminate practice and belief from the earliest human habitation in the island down to the advent of Christianity in...

Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical-that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity...

Druidism evolved out of the tribal cultures of Britain, Ireland and western France over two thousand years ago. In the seventeenth century it experienced a revival, which has continued to this day. Contemporary Druids can now be found all over the world,...

The early medieval manuscripts of Ireland and Britain have preserved tantalizing clues pertaining to the cosmology, religion and mythology of native Celtic cultures. In this unique collection of new studies and translations, ancient source materials and...

Studies on the Derveni Papyrus, volume II brings together two new editions of the first fragmentarily extant columns of the Derveni Papyrus and seven scholarly articles devoted to their interpretation. The Derveni Papyrus is by far the most important...

The Derveni papyrus is the oldest literary papyrus ever found, and one of the very few from Greece itself, which makes it one of the most interesting new texts from the ancient Greek world to have been discovered this century. The eschatological...

In this comprehensive book Michael Witzel persuasively demonstrates the prehistoric origins of most of the mythologies of Eurasia and the Americas ('Laurasia'). By comparing these myths with others indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, Melanesia, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910191187Author Christopher A PlaisanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint AvaloniaPublisher AvaloniaWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Egill Skallagrimsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to thirteenth-century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's...

An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994125866Author Brian O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Irish Imbas Books LimitedPublisher Irish Imbas Books LimitedWeight(grams)...

This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from...

"This study of Dionysus . . . is also a new theogony of Early Greece." -Publishers Weekly"An original analysis . . . of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." -Theology DigestA sensitive analysis of the spiritual significance...

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A magickal guide to working with runes and plant allies for manifestation, healing, and spellwork. Runes and plants both contain the dynamic and raw energies of Mother Earth and can be used to heal, manifest, protect, and elevate magick. Both support and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737932710Author Winifred RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Wordfruma PressPublisher Wordfruma PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989526562Author Gabriel Cooper RochelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Golden Alley PressPublisher Golden Alley PressWeight(grams) 277g

Amarna Sunset tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century bc. Beginning at the regime's high point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the...

Romance of the Perilous Land is a roleplaying game of magic and adventure set in the world of British folklore, from the stories of King Arthur to the wonderful regional tales told throughout this green and pleasant land. It is a world of romantic...

Flowers are found in magic traditions around the world, from ancient Egypt, China, and India to the Norse and Native Americans. Yet many of today's well-established flower traditions--like bridal bouquets--originated in the Druidic magical lore of Wales,...

For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737707806Author J HamburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Waller Creek PressPublisher Waller Creek PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of...

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Flavians, with accompanying maps, glossary and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913660314Author Philip Carr-GommFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Thoth PublicationsPublisher Thoth PublicationsWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Stories of Gods and Monsters Scandinavians of the Viking era explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in...

In 1902 Steiner wrote Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity, showing the evolutionary development from the ancient mysteries, through the great Greek philosophers, to the events portrayed in the gospels. Steiner saw the Christ...