Codex Mysterium

Codex Mysterium
Author: Rami Hansenne
Publisher: Innovario
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2020-06-13
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9464007141

Quest your way through 60 unique, eccentric and richly illustrated puzzles and brain teasers, requiring you to twist your brain in unnatural ways. No two puzzles are alike and each is embellished with outlandish illustrations. Rich in visual cues and low on explanatory text, the first challenge is figuring out the puzzle objectives. Once solved, each puzzle solution will serve as input for a next enigma. Codex Mysterium is a stand-alone sequel to the successful Codex Enigmatum and offers an interconnected suite of 60 unique and fun brain teasers, allowing for 10-20 hours of puzzle solving, solo with friends or on game nights. The puzzles are accompanied by a bare minimum of instructions (and often none at all). You will need to think out-of-the-box to resolve these brain teasers and combine multiple techniques, including physical manipulation of the book, drawing, folding pages, searching for hidden patterns or visual cues, logical deduction, decryption and much more. The book is fully stand-alone; no apps or internet connection are required. Hints and solutions are provided to ensure you never get permanently stuck.

Codex Enigmatum

Codex Enigmatum
Author: Rami Hansenne
Publisher: Innovario
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2019-07-29
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9463960236

Codex Enigmatum is a richly illustrated puzzle book, filled with a diverse mix of unique and interrelated brain teasers, riddles and conundrums. It features many one-of-a-kind escape room type puzzles designed specifically for this book, as well as unconventional twists on well-known puzzle genres. Each puzzle solution yields a key to unlock future puzzles and in order to unlock the secrets of the codex, you will need to quest your way through over 60 varied and eccentric enigmas requiring a combination of lateral thinking, logical deduction, spatial reasoning and pattern recognition. Are you up to the challenge?

Daedalian Depths

Daedalian Depths
Author: Rami Hansenne
Publisher: Innovario BVBA
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9464337389

You wake up and find yourself in a strange and eerie place. Numbered doors lead off into the unknown, but which one to select and what awaits beyond? Daedalian Depths locks the reader into an otherworldly labyrinth wherein astute readers may recognize the myriad clues embedded in the text and enigmatic illustrations. Gather your wits, challenge your perceptive and deductive abilities, and try to escape. But make too many wrong choices and the maze may swallow you whole. This is a mind twisting book you could read in a few minutes, but if you want to solve the mystery, prepare to spend several hours poring over the text and illustrations. You will need to go back and forth between the pages, scrutinizing each clue. You will likely find yourself doubling back and going around in circles, but the persistent reader will find their way out and meet their destiny.

The Museum of Lost Wonder

The Museum of Lost Wonder
Author: Jeff Hoke
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781578633647

Presents an interactive history of the human imagination, separated by the seven stages of alchemical process, encouraging readers to question their understanding of life and the way in which imagination is quantified.

Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus
Author: Constantine Tischendorf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2016-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781585093670

A first-hand account of this amazing discovery, followed by an assessment of its historical importance. While visiting St. Catherine's monastery in the Sinai, the author found the oldest complete New Testament bible, with most of the Old Testament as well. Also includes The Mount Sinai Manuscript of the Bible.

AKHKHARU - Vampyre Magick

AKHKHARU - Vampyre Magick
Author: Michael Ford
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2008-11-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0557025486

AKHKHARU - Vampyre Magick is a complete grimoire of Vampyric Magick - from beginner to Advanced. The Vampyre Magickian explores foundational techniques, practice and the mindset needed to transform consciousness into a Godlike state. The grimoire presents actual Ancient Sumerian and Chaldean Sorcery lore and Magick - Vampyrism and demonology, A chapter on the Daemonic Feminine and powerful devotionals - including the Daemonic Feminine version of the Azal'ucel working. Akhkharu also features the rituals of the Gates of the Qlippoth and their sigils - presented here for the first time. A section on the VAMPYRE TAROT, Vampyre Dictionary and the final chapter deals with the possibility of surviving consciousness after physical death. Akhkharu is a MUST for those interested in serious left hand path magick and Luciferianism.

Journal 29

Journal 29
Author: Dimitris Chassapakis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2017-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781635871722

Journal 29 is a unique book game where you can solve riddles and puzzles and submit your answers online to get the keys and move forward.To solve the riddles, you need to think out of the box.You can write, draw, search, fold pages, combine different methods and try to get those riddles right.Journal 29 is a 148 pages book providing over 63 riddles you can solve.

Grimoires

Grimoires
Author: Owen Davies
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0191509248

What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middle East and which have developed and spread across much of the Western Hemisphere and beyond over the ensuing millennia. At their most benign, they contain charms and remedies for natural and supernatural ailments and advice on contacting spirits to help find treasures and protect from evil. But at their most sinister they provide instructions on how to manipulate people for corrupt purposes and, worst of all, to call up and make a pact with the Devil. Both types have proven remarkably resilient and adaptable and retain much of their relevance and fascination to this day. But the grimoire represents much more than just magic. To understand the history of grimoires is to understand the spread of Christianity, the development of early science, the cultural influence of the print revolution, the growth of literacy, the impact of colonialism, and the expansion of western cultures across the oceans. As this book richly demonstrates, the history of grimoires illuminates many of the most important developments in European history over the last two thousand years.

Soul on Fire

Soul on Fire
Author: Nicole Hemmer
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780986353970

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism
Author: Stephen C. Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190658460

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three chapters from an international group of scholars explore topics ranging from the representation of the Middle Ages in nineteenth-century opera to medievalism in contemporary video game music, thereby connecting disparate musical forms across typical musicological boundaries of chronology and geography. While some chapters focus on key medievalist works such as Orff's Carmina Burana or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, others explore medievalism in the oeuvre of a single composer (e.g. Richard Wagner or Arvo Pärt) or musical group (e.g. Led Zeppelin). The topics of the individual chapters include both well-known works such as John Boorman's film Excalibur and also less familiar examples such as Eduard Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys. The authors of the chapters approach their material from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, including historical musicology, popular music studies, music theory, and film studies, examining the intersections of medievalism with nationalism, romanticism, ideology, nature, feminism, or spiritualism. Taken together, the contents of the Handbook develop new critical insights that venture outside traditional methodological constraints and provide a capstone and point of departure for future scholarship on music and medievalism.