Folklore category: 2054 books
by Steven McFadden, Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Legend of the Rainbow Warriors is a journalist's account of one of the core myths of America, and an electrifying exploration of how that myth is playing out in real time.
One dominant myth is formed by advertising images of vast, luxurious wealth-the myth of materialism. Another myth is conjured...
Christmas in Germany
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice...
Original Magic
The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A complete guide to the theory, practice, and history of Mazdan magic, the first organized system of magic
• Provides a complete curriculum of magical study and initiation centered on exercises keyed to the sacred Zoroastrian calendar
• Details advanced magical rituals and practices...
by Arthur Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Creed of Half Japan
by Arthur Lloyd
A comprehensive history of Mahayana Buddhism, particularly in Japan, and possible ties to Gnosticism and early Christianity. Includes two translated texts from the Nichiren school.
This is a scholarly study of the evolution of Mahayana Buddhism...
The Spiritual Science of the Stars
A Guide to the Architecture of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
The profound influence of ancient cosmologies on our ideas about the human spirit
• Shows how ancient myths contain a sophisticated understanding of our relationship to the cosmos, derived from thousands of years of observation of the night sky
• Explains how ideas of the mind and...
by Jane Ellen Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Progelomena To The Study Of Greek Religion
by Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface...
by John Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Religion among the lively and imaginative Greeks took a different form from that of the Aryan race in India or Persia. However the ideas of their divinities originated in their relations to the thought and life of the people, their gods were neither abstractions nor symbols. They were simply men and...
by Judith Tometczak
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
From the jail cell that once held John Dillinger to quaint shops with dark beginnings, the restless spirits of Crown Point purportedly result from a century-old hex. Legend had it that a caravan of gypsies found themselves unfairly exiled from town. Forced to leave their beloved dead behind in unmarked...
Enraged
Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer’s Iliad, Euripides’ Hecuba, and Sophocles’ Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and...
Counterfeit Politics
Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do...
The Memory of Fire Trilogy
Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Now in one collection, the century-spanning trilogy filled with “the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America” (The Washington Post).
Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization—or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history...
by Eduardo Galeano
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
“A book as fascinating as the history it relates . . . Galeano is a satirist, realist, and historian.” —Los Angeles Times
For centuries, Europe’s imperial powers brutally exploited the peoples and resources of the New World. While soldiers of fortune marched across continents in search...
Lincoln Legends
Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln has been the subject of speculation and inquiry...
by K. Bradley Washburn, Benjamin Jowett, Plato
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
For centuries, the tale of Atlantis has captured the imaginations of millions across the world. Atlantis has been featured in everything from books to films to toys, and the search for the lost continent as been undertaken by some of the best minds humanity has to offer. This volume collects the original...