Sacred Leaf

Sacred Leaf
Author: Deborah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0888998082

After being taken in by a family of coca farmers, Diego is devastated when the army threatens to destroy the only source of income they have and so works to stop the army and save the people he has come to love.

Sacred Leaf

Sacred Leaf
Author: Deborah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0888997515

After being taken in by a family of coca farmers, Diego is devastated when the army threatens to destroy the only source of income they have and so works to stop the army and save the people he has come to love.

Sacred Leaves of Candomblé

Sacred Leaves of Candomblé
Author: Robert A. Voeks
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0292773854

Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa. This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candomblé's healing pharmacopoeia—the sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transference—and transformation—of Candomblé as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candomblé to survive and even thrive in the New World. This research casts new light on topics ranging from the creation of African American cultures to tropical rain forest healing floras.

Sacred Leaves

Sacred Leaves
Author: Diego de Oxossi
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-07-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738767212

Discover the Power, Magic, and Secrets of Afro-Brazilian Herbal Magic Transform your life with authentic day-to-day plant magic used in the rituals of Umbanda and Candomblé — Brazilian religions based on African gods of nature called Orishas and practiced all over South America. Sacred Leaves compiles three volumes on this Afro-Brazilian witchcraft into one updated edition, making their contents available in English for the first time. With this comprehensive guide, you can begin safely working with a variety of magical herbs for spiritual cleansing, prosperity, harmony, love, and more. Diego de Oxóssi teaches you how to identify plants through their physical and magical characteristics, harvest botanical ingredients, awaken their sacred power with spoken enchantments, and create your own herbal spells. Then, you will explore a variety of ways to use plant energies, including potions, powders, aromatherapy, baths, cookery, and other healing tools. With its collection of more than three hundred plant profiles and various hands-on activities, Sacred Leaves will help you build a life filled with magic and success.

The Sacred Banana Leaf

The Sacred Banana Leaf
Author:
Publisher: Tara Publishing
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2008
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 8186211284

An adaptation of an Indonesian trickster tale about Kanchil the mouse deer.

Nothing's Sacred

Nothing's Sacred
Author: Lewis Black
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2005-05-20
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1416914579

Comedian Lewis Black unleashes his trademark subversive wit while recounting his own life story in his New York Times bestselling memoir. You've seen him on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offering up his trademark angry observational humor on everything from politics to pop culture. You've seen his energetic stand-up performances on HBO, Comedy Central, and in venues across the globe. Now, for the first time, Lewis Black translates his volcanic eruptions into book form in Nothing's Sacred, a collection of rants against stupidity and authority, which oftentimes go hand in hand. With subversive wit and intellectual honesty, Lewis examines the events of his life that shaped his antiauthoritarian point of view and developed his comedic perspective. Growing up in 1950s suburbia when father knew best and there was a sitcom to prove it, he began to regard authority with a jaundiced eye at an early age. And as that sentiment grew stronger with each passing year, so did his ability to hone in on the absurd. True to form, he puts common sense above ideology and distills hilarious, biting commentary on all things politically and culturally relevant. "No one is safe from Lewis Black's comic missiles." (New York Times) You have been warned....

Omnifray RPG Expert Manual

Omnifray RPG Expert Manual
Author: Matt West
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1409205479

The Enshrouded Lands ' an earth-like world where magic bubbles away beneath the surface, beyond the ken of the common folk ' may take so many forms that they really are a thousand worlds in one. This is the second rulebook for the Omnifray RPG. It continues on from the Basic Handbook, delving deeper into the mysterious fabric of the Enshrouded Lands, with detailed information on possible backgrounds for player characters and masses of material on an array of secretive cults. It presents the standard advanced rules for fantasy Omnifray in full. The complete Omnifray system awaits you. This book gives your PCs greater access to feats of physical energy and concentration as well as full access to feats of elder magic, unholy magic, holy magic, mystical power and destiny, downtime feats such as divination and herbalism and feats of combined physical energy and concentration. You must be familiar with the Basic Handbook to use this book. Omnifray is intended for a mature audience.

The Devil Sovereign

The Devil Sovereign
Author: Mo Zun
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 1299
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648578551

This was a mysterious continent. It was a completely different continent from Hua Xia. The Buddha of the West, the demons and demons from the Oasis of Hanhai, and the cultivators of Hanzhou ...The several factions were originally living in harmony with each other, but all of this was broken by a person called Beacon Zhang Yan. Han Feng, who crossed over from China, possessed Beacon Zhang Yan and also received the inheritance of the ancient cultivation technique. Would he be able to make a name for himself on this continent? Let everyone know that the sigil of the beacon was Han Feng, and that the Han Feng was the sigil of the beacon!

Free Flows the River

Free Flows the River
Author: Earl Murray
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2006-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765357397

In the continuation of the Western saga begun with High Freedom, Jethro Thompson, preparing to become a warrior, meets an enemy while sojourning in the wilderness and decides to spare him, a decision that proves costly. Reprint.