Iris, Messenger

Iris, Messenger
Author: Sarah Deming
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152058234

When Iris Greenwold receives a copy of "Bulfinch's Mythology" for her 12th birthday, she discovers that all of the ancient gods are living in the greater Philadelphia area.

Pagan Portals - Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow and Messenger of the Godds

Pagan Portals - Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow and Messenger of the Godds
Author: Irisanya Moon
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1789047129

'A valuable tool on how to develop a relationship with the Goddess of Rainbows, Iris. With historic sources, how to work the colors of the rainbow, and how to create rituals in her mighty name, this book will open your eyes and soul to this Messenger of the Gods.' Jennifer Teixeira - Author of Pagan Portals: Temple of the Bones; Rituals to the Goddess Hekate Iris, the Goddess of the Rainbow, is an often-overlooked goddess in Greek mythology. As a messenger, she offers us the words and wisdom of the gods, traveling between worlds to tell us what we need to know. In Pagan Portals - Iris Goddess of the Rainbow and Messenger of the Godds, we will explore the mysterious Iris, following the colors of her magick to inspire our lives.

Elegy for Iris

Elegy for Iris
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466854243

"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.

Iris the Colorful

Iris the Colorful
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442488255

Iris has a rainbow of colorful experiences, from visiting the Underworld to conversing with her crush in this Goddess Girls adventure. Iris is the most colorful goddess girl at Mount Olympus Academy. In fact, her hair and delicate wings can change color according to her mood! When Principal Zeus entrusts her with the job of fetching some magic water, Iris is tickled pink—until she realizes she’ll have to get the water from the gray, gloomy River Styx in the Underworld! And when Iris figures out how to create magical rainbow slides that will allow her to travel from Mount Olympus to Earth and back in a flash, she suddenly becomes a messenger in high demand. All the while, Iris wonders whether her crush, Zephyrus, has caught wind of her infatuation, or if he’s into her BFF instead. Either way, Iris is determined she won’t go green with envy!

Gods and Heroes

Gods and Heroes
Author: R.E Francillon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752340223

Reproduction of the original: Gods and Heroes by R.E Francillon

Homer and His Age

Homer and His Age
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1906
Genre: History
ISBN:

Iron, we repeat, is in the poems a perfectly familiar metal. Ownership of bronze, gold, and iron, which requires much labour (in the smithying or smelting), appears regularly in the recurrent epic formula for describing a man of wealth. Footnote: Iliad, VI. 48; IX. 365-366; X. 379; XI. 133; Odyssey, XIV. 324; XXI. 10.] Iron, bronze, slaves, and hides are bartered for sea-borne wine at the siege of Troy?

The Message To The Planet

The Message To The Planet
Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2010-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1407019724

For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found. But is he a genius, a hero struggling at the bounds of human knowledge? Is he seeking God, or is he just another victim of the Holocaust, which casts its shadow upon him and upon Ludens, both of them Jewish? Can human thinking discover the foundations of human consciousness? Iris Murdoch's endlessly inventive imagination has touched a fundamental question of our time.

A Brief History of Angels and Demons

A Brief History of Angels and Demons
Author: Sarah Bartlett
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2011-11-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1849018286

Throughout history, the human quest for knowledge of the divine, has ruffled the wings of many an angel, but also tested the wrath of the demon. This book not traces the history of angels and demons from their earliest roots to their modern day renaissance, but also reveals their most intimate secrets. Whether through personal stories, literature, myth, religion or art, this book is the story of how belief in angels and demons has cast a powerful spell over the popular imagination.

Catching the Light

Catching the Light
Author: Arthur Zajonc
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1995
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780195095753

Examination of the fundamental nature of light in mankind's history, world, and life.

The Shakespeare Name Dictionary

The Shakespeare Name Dictionary
Author: J. Madison Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135875715

Entries provide the likely sources for a name; describe historical and mythological backgrounds; examine Shakespeare's presentation of a character or place; and suggest various interpretations of a name. Each entry contains line citations to William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. A guide to the historical, mythological, fictional, and geographic references that appear in Shakespeare's complete plays and poems, covering every name, proper adjective, official title, literary and mystical title, and place name.