Kukulkan's Realm

Kukulkan's Realm
Author: Marilyn Masson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1492012734

Kukulkan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center. Masson and Peraza Lope's detailed overview provides evidence of a vibrant market economy that played a critical role in the city's political and economic success. They offer new perspectives from the homes of governing elites, secondary administrators, affluent artisans, and poorer members of the service industries. Household occupational specialists depended on regional trade for basic provisions that were essential to crafting industries, sustenance, and quality of life. Settlement patterns reveal intricate relationships of households with neighbors, garden plots, cultivable fields, thoroughfares, and resources. Urban planning endeavored to unite the cityscape and to integrate a pluralistic populace that derived from hometowns across the Yucatán peninsula. New data from Mayapán, the pinnacle of Postclassic Maya society, contribute to a paradigm change regarding the evolution and organization of Maya society in general and make Kukulkan's Realm a must-read for students and scholars of the ancient Maya and Mesoamerica.

Death Island

Death Island
Author: Kelsey Ketch
Publisher: Kelsey Ketch
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

After arriving at Death Island, Meriden Cummings became haunted by dreams of a young Mayan woman’s death. A death, Meriden fears, foreshadows her own. And she soon discovers that in this tropical paradise, there are many ways to die. On top of that, the pirates after her great-grandfather’s treasure are not far behind. Can she and her crew stay one step ahead of them and the Mayan god that inhabits the island? Meriden is not the only one haunted by the young Mayan woman’s death. Gregory Wilson has had similar dreams the moment he stepped foot on the island. In addition, he has seen the Mayan god of death, Ah Puch. Will he be able to protect Meriden from the earthly dangers as well as the supernatural forces seeking her demise?

The Matrix & The Forbidden Knowledge - Extraterrestrial Edition

The Matrix & The Forbidden Knowledge - Extraterrestrial Edition
Author: Malik Bade
Publisher: Malik Oyebade
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2023-10-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Extraterrestrials have long been documented throughout history. The hidden rulers and powers of planet earth are non-human. This publication provides the ultimate field guide for a number of alien races and encounters with full in-depth descriptions and images.

Shamanic Journeys: An Anthology

Shamanic Journeys: An Anthology
Author: Michael Drake
Publisher: Talking Drum Publications
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2022-05-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1005629234

This book is an anthology of shamanic journeys that I have taken over my 35-year exploration of shamanism, the most ancient and most enduring spiritual tradition known to humanity. Each inner journey has a unique story about what led up to the trance experience, and what I learned from it. They were powerful life-changing events for me. Journey work is therapeutic and liberating. My trance experiences were healing, insightful and empowering. They often triggered the cathartic release of suppressed emotions producing feelings of peace and well-being. The process restores emotional health through expression and integration of emotions.

Riding Spirit Horse: A Journey Into Shamanism

Riding Spirit Horse: A Journey Into Shamanism
Author: Michael Drake
Publisher: Independently published
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

In this visionary memoir, author Michael Drake recounts his spiritual journey into shamanism. Drake's engaging narrative moves from his first ecstatic experience as a youth at a church revival to his mystical shamanic awakening, transformational pilgrimages to sacred places, working with indigenous wisdom keepers, to the experiences that prompted his writing, particularly his trance experiences "riding the drum" or Spirit Horse. Studying with Native elders and shamans, Drake discovered his shamanic gifts as a drummer, storyteller and ceremonialist. Riding Spirit Horse takes readers on a transcendent pilgrimage of the soul through birth, death, rebirth, ritual and ceremony to the frontiers of expanded consciousness.