The Goddess A Demon

The Goddess A Demon
Author: Richard Marsh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9361428357

Ethel M. Chapman's "God's Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life" is a poignant depiction of rural Canadian life that captures the spirit of community, resiliency, and the splendour of the natural world. The story, which is set against the backdrop of rural Canada, follows a number of characters as they deal with the pleasures and difficulties of rural life. Fundamentally, the narrative honours the strong ties that are created in a tiny farming community where neighbours depend on one another for companionship and support. Through the experiences of the people, Chapman delves into issues of endurance, hard work, and the close ties to the land that characterise rural life. Readers will be gripped by Marsh's skilful tension-building throughout the book as the mystery around Helen's identity and intentions gradually comes to light. The book offers a provocative reflection on the nature of evil and the attraction of the forbidden as it tackles topics of obsession, desire, and the darker side of human nature.

Yagyaa : The Demon Goddess

Yagyaa : The Demon Goddess
Author: Nitin MIshra
Publisher: Bullseye press
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

In Goa, India, the drug cartels and the police are at each other 's throats. But this fight is just a symptom of a bigger sickness, of an evil that not only intends to disrupt the peace in Goa, but to rule over all mankind. Thrust into this conflict is Pragya Parashar - Hindi comic book writer and artist. All Pragya wants is to return Indian Comics to its golden age - the nineties. And she might just succeed in doing this, in spite of the forces of evil that she's about to face off. But will she survive an even bigger threat - the last Hindi comic book publisher going out of business?

Goddesses and Demons

Goddesses and Demons
Author: Jack Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781712093191

Nature's greatest feat is the smile of a pretty woman, but gentlemen, beware of the potential havoc a beautiful woman can bring to your life, and once the damage is done to your psyche, make a plan to fight back and rebuild yourself. One man's story, and a presentation of counter-measures to a bad marriage. Includes discussion of female archetypes, divine couple archetypes, Film Noir and the Good Girl Illusion, Subtle Christian Satanism, reality vs. illusion regarding other females in a male's life, including mothers, daughters, sisters. Commentary on "Christian" literature titles Boundaries, Jesus Calling, God Winks. A discussion of what to do after the devastation is done includes keeping your own confidence, personal care, exercise, and psychological redress including denial, repression, projection, rationalization, intellectualization, displacement and sublimation. Also: professional help, temporary or permanent separation, divorce, self-compassion, self-esteem, and a choice to "love anyway" and/or carrying the burden from day to day in hopes of a greater reward.

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Author: Kimberly Lemming
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2023-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316570265

Spice trader Cinnamon’s quiet life is turned upside down when she ends up on a quest with a fiery demon, in this irreverently quirky rom-com fantasy that is sweet, steamy, and funny as hell. All she wanted to do was live her life in peace—maybe get a cat, expand the family spice farm. Really, anything that didn’t involve going on an adventure where an orc might rip her face off. But they say the goddess has favorites, and if so, Cin is clearly not one of them. After Cin saves the demon Fallon in a wine-drunk stupor, Fallon reveals that all he really wants to do is kill an evil witch enslaving his people. And who can blame him? But now he’s dragging Cinnamon along for the ride whether she likes it or not. On the bright side, at least he keeps burning off his shirt.…

Journey of a Goddess

Journey of a Goddess
Author: Fan Pen Li Chen
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1438467079

First English translation of both a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity. This book offers the first translation into English of the Chinese novel Haiyouji, as well as excerpts of a marionette play based on the cult lore of the goddess Chen Jinggu (766–790), a historical shaman priestess who became one of Fujian’s most important goddesses and the Lüshan Sect’s chief deity. The novel, a 1753 reprint of what is possibly a Ming dynasty novel, was both a popular fiction and a religious tract. It offers a lively mythological tale depicting combat between the shaman goddess and a snake demon goddess. Replete with the beliefs and practices of the cult of this warrior goddess, the novel asserts the importance of Shamanism (i.e., local religious beliefs) as one of the four religions of China, along with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. To further develop the links between literature and local religion, Fan Pen Li Chen includes translations of two acts from a Fujian marionette play, Biography of the Lady, featuring the goddess.

The Demon's Daughter

The Demon's Daughter
Author: Paula Altenburg
Publisher: Entangled: Select
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781620610374

Hunter is the only man capable of killing the demons that left the world in ruins. But when he's hired by a notorious priestess to bring a thief to justice, the Demon Slayer gets more than he bargains for. Airie was raised in an abandoned temple as a priestess's daughter, having no idea of her true origins. In a time when any half-breed spawn of a demon is despised by mortal and immortal alike, not knowing the truth is the only thing keeping her safe. Forced to flee her home in the wake of disaster and discovery of who she is, Airie must place her trust in a man who believes she should never have been born. And when a demon uprising threatens lives he has sworn to protect, Hunter has to make a choice: abandon Airie to an uncertain fate, or overcome his own personal demons and love her for who she truly is.

The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons

The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons
Author:
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0295748362

The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) into vernacular short fiction, legends, plays, sutras, and stele inscriptions at temples where she is worshipped. The full-length novel The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons narrates Chen Jinggu’s lifelong struggle with and eventual triumph over her spirit double and rival, the White Snake demon. Among accounts of goddesses in late imperial China, this work is unique in its focus on the physical aspects of womanhood, especially the dangers of childbirth, and in its dramatization of the contradictory nature of Chinese divinities. This unabridged, annotated translation provides insights into late imperial Chinese religion, the lives of women, and the structure of families and local society.

Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses

Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses
Author: Michael Jordan
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Goddesses
ISBN: 1438109857

Presents brief entries describing the gods and goddesses from the mythology and religion of a wide variety of cultures throughout history.

The Disguises of the Demon

The Disguises of the Demon
Author: Gail Hinich Sutherland
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1991-07-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438421613

Among the most ancient deities of South Asia, the yaksha straddle the boundaries between popular and textual traditions in both Hinduism and Buddhism and both benevolent and malevolent facets. As a figure of material plenty, the yaksis epitomized as Kubera, god of wealth and king of the yaks In demonic guise, the yaksis related to a large family of demonic and quasi-demonic beings, such as nagas, gandharvas, raks, and the man-eating pisaacas. Translating and interpreting texts and passages from the Vedic literature, the Hindu epics, the Puranas, Kālidāsa's Meghadūta, and the Buddhist Jātaka Tales, Sutherland traces the development and transformation of the elusive yaksfrom an early identification with the impersonal absolute itself to a progressively more demonic and diminished terrestrial characterization. Her investigation is set within the framework of a larger inquiry into the nature of evil, misfortune, and causation in Indian myth and religion.

God's Demon

God's Demon
Author: Wayne Barlowe
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765309853

A stirring novel of hope and redemption